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I'm trying to maintain a Google Calendar, and provide some way for individuals to add events to it, but not be able to edit others' events on the same calendar. (Bonus if there could be a review queue, so events would need to be reviewed & approved before showing up on the calendar)
So far, anyone I've shared the calendar with, and given access level of "make changes to events" can edit everything. Given lesser access rights, they can't add an event at all.
Anyone know of a way to make this work?
Alternately, if I could just create a web form that would allow people to create an event, then I could manually add approved events to the master calendar. (Maybe I should set up a separate calendar for "event submission", and then just review & add new submissions as they come in...?)
(140?? NEEDZ MOAR CHARACTERZ)
I'm trying to maintain a Google Calendar, and provide some way for individuals to add events to it, but not be able to edit others' events on the same calendar. (Bonus if there could be a review queue, so events would need to be reviewed & approved before showing up on the calendar)
So far, anyone I've shared the calendar with, and given access level of "make changes to events" can edit everything. Given lesser access rights, they can't add an event at all.
Anyone know of a way to make this work?
Alternately, if I could just create a web form that would allow people to create an event, then I could manually add approved events to the master calendar. (Maybe I should set up a separate calendar for "event submission", and then just review & add new submissions as they come in...?)
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Permalink Reply by Jason Keath [jakrose] on -
you can set up separate calendars then embed a calendar that shows all the multiple calendars/ not a true solution to your issues, but the only one I can think of. probably would need to look at the form solution or a wordpress plugin hack.
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Permalink Reply by ben ullman [budesigns] on -
Thx, Jason,
That might be helpful... how do I create/embed a calendar which is a composite of multiple calendars?
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Permalink Reply by ben ullman [budesigns] on
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Update: Check out the calendar in action.
Feedback welcome! And, I'd still love to know if there's a way to:
- embed multiple calendars in one display, or
- have a master calendar made up of multiple calendars, automatically synched
- and track changes, for quality control
Below is more detail, in case it helps anyone, or is of interest...
As soon as I told the client that we were gonna use Google Calendar, she created a calendar for each of her vendors (2 dozen, maybe) and sent each contact her Google password. [smacks head]
So, here's the process we used:
- she (and/or others with her password) populated the calendars
- I (with her password) exported her calendars
- I imported each calendar (individually) to the master site calendar
- cleanup (any events not marked public need to be changed to public, or they just display "busy" publicly)
Any time a calendar is re-imported, it overwrites all events from that calendar, not just the new ones, so going forward, it's probably easier to manually add new events individually. (View the event, click the "add to my calendar" link.)
Given that she gave everyone access to all the calendars, it'd be just as good to have used just one "submissions" calendar (instead of one for each vendor) so only one import would be needed.
In the future, though, it could be useful for each vendor to have a calendar (cuz this main one is pretty crowded) in case they wanted to link to a calendar that only shows their events (hey, that could be a new site feature...). We also may want to get each vendor their own Google account, so we can do a proper calendar share, and keep the access to individual calendars restricted.
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