Only able to share you Google Apps calendar with the permission "See only free / busy (hide details)"?

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Posted on Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 8:42pm by Schoonzie

I've recently moved from my all in one Outlook setup to separate Google Apps for your domain instances which I'm really loving, but one thing that was bugging me was not being able to see my calendar from my other domains. I was able to share the calendar fine, but it was only giving me the option to share it with the permission "See only free / busy (hide details)", so I could see when I had things scheduled in my other calendar's but not what they were.

After a bit of mucking around I found the Sharing Options setting in the Manage This Domain > Service Settings > Calendar Settings page that allows you to specify the highest level of sharing that you want to allow for the users of your domain. If you don't have access to manage your domain, talk to your domain administrator and they should be able to sort it out.

Google Calendar sharing options

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One more addition to this advice

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Friday, November 7, 2008 at 8:48pm.

It took my account about 30 minutes for this change to take hold before I was able to bump the "outside domain" user's permissions up within the calendar sharing area.

Thank you for this post! Putting this issue to rest was a great way to end a work week.
Cheers!

Glad to be of help and

Submitted by Schoonzie on Saturday, November 8, 2008 at 4:12am.

Glad to be of help and thanks for the comment.

Thanks, Was scratching my

Submitted by Paul Westwell (not verified) on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 3:16pm.

Thanks,

Was scratching my head over this one but you solution was perfect and makes so much sense when you know where to look! Not sure I would have ever found it.

Regards,

Paul

Great help!

Submitted by hichrish (not verified) on Sunday, January 18, 2009 at 3:23am.

My job is in Finance & Sales. I enjoy learning new ways to use technology to support my work. My education comes through searching and reading online. I figured out today how to connect Salesforce to Google Apps for my own personal use (company is not involved.) Your tips, starting with this one really helped!

THANK YOU!!!!

Submitted by Rich Driscoll (not verified) on Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 10:32am.

I spent 20 minutes on Google help and could not find the answer to this. Thanks a lot. Getting to really like Google Calendar. Especially with my G Phone. Call me getting more comfortable with the "cloud".

Thanks Again

Thanks so much! was really

Submitted by Jeremy (not verified) on Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 9:30pm.

Thanks so much! was really getting annoyed with this and almost gave up.

Thanks

Manage This Domain

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 7:54pm.

How do I get to this section? I've been searching in my google account for 30 minutes and can't find this option anywhere!

The 'Manage this domain'

Submitted by Schoonzie on Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 5:49pm.

The 'Manage this domain' link is in the top right hand side of your Google Apps for your Domain account, near the sign out link. Obviously, you need to be the administrator of the domain to be able to see the link, and it must be a Google Apps for your Domain account, not a regular gmail account.

Brilliant

Submitted by Tom Whitaker (not verified) on Monday, April 6, 2009 at 5:11pm.

Thanks very much.

Nice one mate

Submitted by JohnB (not verified) on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 8:13am.

Thanks very much!

Thanks!

Submitted by Mike (not verified) on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 6:10am.

I've been searching for this solution for 2 hours! Thanks mate!

Cheers!

Submitted by Shane McCallum (not verified) on Monday, June 29, 2009 at 2:52pm.

Thanks for taking the time to post this, as it is not well documented.

Yay!!

Submitted by Lee Bates (not verified) on Friday, July 31, 2009 at 5:42am.

Cheers for this tip - I've just moved over to Google Apps from standard Google Calendar and it's a bit like the difference between Outlook and Outlook Express - to the casual observer very similar, but there is so much more going on "under the bonnet" in Apps that is not entirely obvious without reading all the documentation - or in this case, great tips from guys like Schnoonzie!
5 stars!