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Here's the scenario.....

1. I have 3 Google calendars (1 personal, 1 work, 1 Lightblue - I could merge the first 2 if I had to but LB requires its own calendar)

2. I now have an assistant who books appointments for me :D

3. I want to share my calendar with her so she can see when I'm busy/free

4. I don't want a manual solution :shake: or to show when I'm slacking off or to have her check 3 different calendars to set one appointment. I just need to merge the 3 calendars into one "busy/free" calendar automatically.

5. All the pages I can find that explain the ridiculous hoops you have to go through for this are like 5 years old and I'm guessing big G have changed stuff since then.

Any ideas?
 
I thought you could set google calendar so that some events were private? If you can set all your personal events to private but it still exports the correct free/busy info then that should work.

Otherwise I'd look at proper shared calendaring solutions with proper appointment management and tracking. Sugar CRM is one that springs to mind.
 
srichards said:
I thought you could set google calendar so that some events were private? If you can set all your personal events to private but it still exports the correct free/busy info then that should work.
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The problem is the 3 calendar thing. I'd have to share 3 calendars. I can make them private so it just shows busy/free but it's still 3 calendars for one person to check.

I hear you on the CRM thing. Ultimately I need that. But I need to get through the next 6 months before I'll have time to invest in getting that working.
 
JonathanRyan said:
The problem is the 3 calendar thing. I'd have to share 3 calendars. I can make them private so it just shows busy/free but it's still 3 calendars for one person to check.

I hear you on the CRM thing. Ultimately I need that. But I need to get through the next 6 months before I'll have time to invest in getting that working.
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It doesn't matter if it is 3 calendars. They're all displayed in the main calendar interface and colour coded so it is just one calendar to check in effect... I can see my shared calendars individually or together.
 
Ah right - cool. I'll try that :)

In other news, for $5 a month Google claim they will simplify this for me so I'm guessing there won't be a very easy way...
 
OK it works kind of. Thanks :)

It appears as 3 calendars but we'll cope until I get a proper CRM or pay the Gtax.
 
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