For some people, it's not a matter of color coding both a single calendar and across multiple calendars. I, for one, want to maintain one single calendar and share the private link to that calendar with others, and the color coding is critical to saving time with some of our project planning.
Right now, you can only send private links to single calendars, not to a collection of your calendars with different colors, so anyone who views your private links will not benefit from any color coding unless they bring up multiple calendars and view them side by side (very clunky and not necessarily helpful). This has been a problem since 2006, as evidenced by archived google group posts that were never resolved. It seems to be a simple issue to solve, but Google has chosen not to address it. I take that as a sign that, although we have this great calendar service for free, it will not have these kinds of frills and enhanced features that other online calendars have and that we should not ever expect those kinds of changes in the future. On May 9, 2:20 pm, Ray Baxter <[email protected]> wrote: > The Calendar and Calendar API don't meet everyone's needs or requirements > > I'm sorry that it hasn't worked out for you, but you are complaining > about something that Google has given to you for free. If you need > support or functionality that doesn't exist now, you could pay someone > to provide it or create it. As it is now, those users and customers > whose support you don't want are also giving you their assistance > without cost. > > Google developed the Calendar and the Calendar API for their own > purposes, but published the API so that others can use it, if they > wish. If you want to add some functionality to color code individual > events, you can, but apparently Google has decided that for their > purposes, it is sufficient to allow you to have multiple calendars > with different colors. It's hard for me to conceive how color coding > both individual calendars and individual calendar events would work > well together, but if you think it would, then you can do it. > > As to whether the interface is intuitive, you should take that up with > IETF, which promulgates the relevant standards. I think that the fact > the Calendar API complies with these standards just makes the gift > that much better, but I hear that you would like something different. > > Ray > > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Calendar Frustrations <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Wow, surprisingly not very intuitive to work with. Wow, if you need > > help, Google sends you to its users and customers rather than > > providing the answers and assistance regarding their product?? > > > Why can't you colour code individual events and activities on the > > calendar?? What's the point of a calendar filled with endless > > activities that are all the same colour, and nothing distinguishing > > any events from each other. What's the point of offering a palette of > > colours, if it's only to colour absolutely everything on the calendar > > the same colour, which makes no sense and makes the calendar hard to > > read and impossible to highlight anything. > > > What a let down. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Calendar Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-calendar-help-dataapi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
