Outlook Calendar changes not showing up in Google Calendar

Anonymous
2022-09-16T16:35:33+00:00

Hello there!

I have Outlook email and Calendar (and I'm not sure what else) through work. I shared my main Outlook Calendar to my personal Google Calendar account by importing the Outlook .ICS URL (found in Outlook.com > Settings > Calendar > Shared Calendars) into GC. All events show up usually, but this past week I haven't seen event changes showing up in GC, even more than 24 hours after the changed event passed. I can't find any way to manually force a sync/update.

What can be done to ensure event changes to my Outlook Calendar show up in my Google Calendar? This is important for me because I have a long-established system of meeting reminders based around my Google Calendar, and whether OC supports that setup or not it would be too much work to redo it all for this 1 calendar.

Thanks in advance,

Grant

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-02-13T17:45:34+00:00

    I was logged in to my Google account and I did follow those instructions to add/run the script. It's possible I added a space/comma/quote mark where I shouldn't have (or something similar). I was mostly trying to assess if I wasn't being patient enough, but it looks like other folks have had the new calendar generate almost immediately. I'll have to try fixing the script later when I'm not in the middle of a busy workday. Thank you for the advice.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-02-13T17:29:50+00:00

    That is what I did (no need to apologize though).

    I suppose I'll have to go through the script with a fine-toothed comb. Thank you for the advice.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-02-13T17:06:56+00:00

    John - looks about right, what you have done. The only change that I did in the script was to alter the 15min interval to 1min so that the script runs and goes to get the latest updates in the Outlook calendar every minute instead of every 15.

    Interestingly, some people report that 1min doesn't work for them (it does for me) and others suggest 2FA on the google account causes problems....yet others with 2FA report no issues.

    Overall - for me, this is a decent solution to a massively inconvenient problem.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-02-13T16:45:23+00:00

    I've tried running the script about 10 times, but I still don't see a new calendar in my list :(

    Any thoughts?

    Hm. The only thing I changed in the script was where the variables point to the ICS file URL:

    ["icsUrl1", "targetCalendar1"], 

     ["icsUrl2", "targetCalendar2"],   

 ["icsUrl3", "targetCalendar1"]

    Since I was only syncing one calendar, my Outlook calendar I did not use icsUrl2 or 3. It looks like this

     ["Full URL to the calendar.ics file in quotes, like https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/ bunch of gibberish/more gibberish/calendar.ics", "A convenient name for the calendar in quotes like Outlook - Work"]

    Note that there is no comma after the closing bracket. Without my descriptive text it looks like this:

     ["https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/bunch of gibberish/more gibberish/calendar.ics", "Outlook - Work"]

    I then clicked run. (Actually about a million times because I was not sure if it was doing anything.) I fiddled with the Deployment stuff, but I don't think I really did anything there because I didn't have any idea what I was doing. It took a little while for the calendar to show up in my calendar app, perhaps 5 or ten minutes. I did have to go into the apps settings to enable it and enable syncing.

    I hope I didn't just describe exactly what you've already done! Apologies if so!

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-02-13T16:43:17+00:00

    You ran the script with you logged into your Google Account after having added as described here https://github.com/derekantrican/GAS-ICS-Sync/wiki/Setting-up-the-script-manually and then following the guidelines (with you adding your own calendar names (eg Harry's Calendar) and the long .ics URL from https://script.google.com/home/projects/1BOk8MDLbLaHh6SwG1M1tsgNXjkcC-79LE0QoipRuTDxbO3fMVvqoROQD/edit

    And now you don't see the calendar name (Harry's Calendar) on the bottom left of your google calendar (under my calendars)?

    I'm wondering if you weren't logged into your google account maybe?

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