Google Calendar Public Events Are No Longer Visible
Google recently made some changes to the global Google Calendar settings for those using Google Apps for enterprise or education.
Starting on November 30, 2011, if you previously had Google Calendars with publicly visible events, general users will now only be able to see “free / busy” events.
In order to solve this problem you need to adjust your domain wide calendar settings and then adjust the individual sharing settings for the calendar that you would like to be visible to the public.
This tutorial will show you what steps you need to take to make the necessary changes and allow users not logged in to a Google account to view your public events.
It took me a little while to figure out how to solve this problem and I had some help from this Google Calendar help thread.
In order to solve the problem of public events on Google Calendar not being visible you need to:
- Log in to your domain as the domain administrator.
- Access your domain wide settings by clicking on “Manage This Domain“.
- Within the Google Apps Dashboard click on the “Settings” tab and then under Services click on “Calendar”
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Under the “Sharing Options” section, find the portion related to sharing outside of your organization. Due to the changes Google made, the first radio dial will be checked, “Only free/busy information (hide event details)“.
Change that selection to either the second or third option:
1. “Share all information, but outsiders cannot change calendars”
2. “Share all information, and outsiders can change calendars“. - Log out and then back in to your Google Apps account- this step is important!
- Access the sharing settings for the individual calendar that you have publicly visible events.
- Under the “Share this calendar with others” section, make sure that the “Make this calendar public” checkbox is selected and from the dropdown to the right, change the selection from “See only free/busy (hide details)” to “See all event details“.
- Save your changes and your public Google Calendar events will now be visible to everyone again!
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thanks for the tutorial – most helpful and it worked. all the comments, forums, etc. on this were a bit confusing and this was nice and easy.
Thanks so much! This really saved my hide!
You rock! We were tearing our hair out on this one–especially as we couldn't get a direct answer from Google! thanks so much
Forgive my ignorance. But how do I get to [Access your domain wide settings by clicking on “Manage This Domain“.] This is very frustrating and I feel like I should send Google a bill.
Thanks in advance for your kindness.
Rick,
When logged in to your Google Apps account, go to your email inbox and click on the gear icon on the top right, you should see an option to "Manage this Domain". You can follow the above instructions after that.
This applies to Google Apps accounts only.
Thanks so much for this very clear tutorial. It's been really useful to pass on to my colleague who had been tearing his hair out about this. Your efforts are much appreciated by us users, and I hope someone from Google thanks you as well
I have no clue why, but this didn't work for me….any other suggestions? I'm going crazy…
It finally updated and allowed me to fix the problem…THANK YOU!!!
Thank you a million times for this tutorial!
Thanks for the tutorial which i followed exactly. But it still did not help. The option under step 7 :SEE ALL EVENT DETAILS doesn't appear for me, only SEE ONLY FREE etc. do you ahve any other ideas?
Thanks!
Manage your Domains might have moved to the bottom of the page (it did for me). However, still not working, so finding it didn't help much.
I've done all of this, but it still won't save my changes. Any thoughts?
Life saver – thanks!
I as wowrking on this for our Google Apps Calendar that I have shared on our website www.twopeas.ca and I found, after hours of frustrations trying to get this to work, that you CANNOT have the API enabled. The "See All Events" option will never become enabled… even after you follow the above tutorial.
Here is a link about disabling API:
http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=60757
Hope this helps some of you that couldn't make it work.