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 for making this

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 4:08pm.

Thanks for making this point... I was very confused as to why changing the settings was not working yesterday and I was close to giving up.

Checking back today, the sharing options are now enabled in my calendar.

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

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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!

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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.

I am glad their is always

Submitted by WebpageFX (not verified) on Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 5:05am.

I am glad their is always some developer busy making apps that actually make a difference. Google is best it has many new ideas..Anyways It was nice reading about this. Thanks.

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!

30 minutes delay

Submitted by Demon Rob (not verified) on Tuesday, August 4, 2009 at 10:13pm.

'it took 30 minutes' - that's the key statement! We set all the settings but nothing happened. Waiting....

Worked!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 11:27am.

Nice! Thanks a lot!

Thanks

Submitted by Steve (not verified) on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 8:10am.

Just wanted to say thanks for this post! I was pulling my hair out trying to get this to work.

Thank your for saving me hours of research!!!!

Submitted by Steven M. Kaplan (not verified) on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 1:32pm.

This solution worked - I was going nuts trying to find out how to do this.

The Google Apps Calendar "help" pages had absolutely nothing on this topic.

Thanks very much! Was also

Submitted by Chris (not verified) on Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 4:23pm.

Thanks very much! Was also pulling my hair out trying to figure this out - much appreciated.

Thanks for the post!

Submitted by Chris Grant (not verified) on Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 12:25pm.

This is what I was looking for. Its great when people find something that they post it to the Internet for others to find. :-)

THANK YOU

Submitted by KD78 (not verified) on Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 2:23pm.

I spent weeks trying to figure this out. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

Thank you very much. Exactly

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at 11:11am.

Thank you very much. Exactly what I needed.

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Submitted by Derk (not verified) on Tuesday, July 6, 2010 at 9:39am.

Thanks a lot! This is what I need.

Thx

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 4:56am.

I thought I was going mad - as mentioned, it does take a while to filter through about 30 mins in case anyon is wondering

THANK YOU A MILLION!

Submitted by Tom (not verified) on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 7:24pm.

Thanks you so much! I've been trying to figure this out for so long and it was driving me crazy!

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Thank you!

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Submitted by sell a business (not verified) on Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 12:01pm.

This small but important trick would save you a lot of time and energy in fixing this problem and allow you to specify the highest level of sharing your domain for users.

Just echoing all the other thankyous

Submitted by Marcel (not verified) on Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 9:13am.

Thanks!!

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Submitted by bursitis cure (not verified) on Friday, July 8, 2011 at 1:36am.

Hey that's really a great post. The information that you have provided has helped me to share the google app calender with the permissions that i want. Thanks for that.

It's a bit like the

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Friday, July 8, 2011 at 4:14am.

It's a bit like the difference between Outlook and Outlook Express - etui iphone 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

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Submitted by Ryan (not verified) on Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 3:05pm.

Thanks a ton! this should be more intuitive

Thanks so much!

Submitted by Dawn (not verified) on Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 5:39pm.

I had been pulling my hair out about this... I don't know why it took me so long to Google for an answer :-)

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Submitted by Bryan Bortz (not verified) on Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 6:49pm.

I could not figure this out for the life of me...

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Submitted by alex96 (not verified) on Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 7:50pm.

Every one with common sense should know this. I am really frustated by the constant loud ringing cell phones at my work. You won't beleive how much annoying it can get.

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Submitted by acne diets (not verified) on Saturday, September 3, 2011 at 11:16pm.

I've not really used calendars that much, electronic or otherwise, but then again, I'm not in a position where I have a lot of social engagements. When/if I do I might have to check this out.

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