Programmatically adding and inviting guests

[James Lampert]

I'm now able to programmatically create and update events through the V2 web services. But is there a way to programmatically add and invite guests?

[James Lampert]

The customer has asked about adding and inviting guests. I don't see anything in the docs about inviting guests on events created through the web service.

Can it be done?

[Alain Vongsouvanh]

Hello James,

When creating an event, simply add the guests to the event's list of attendees. This will add those guests as attendees to the event.

On v2, you can also add the gCal:sendEventNotifications attribute to send notifications to guest:

  https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/v2/reference#gCalsendEventNotifications

On v3, you can use the sendNotifications query parameter to achieve the same result:

  https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/v3/reference/events/insert#sendNotifications

Best,

Alain

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 9:15 AM, James Lampert <hbquikc...@gmail.com> wrote:

The customer has asked about adding and inviting guests. I don't see anything in the docs about inviting guests on events created through the web service.

Can it be done?

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[James Lampert]

On Thursday, April 5, 2012 10:42:11 AM UTC-7, Alain Vongsouvanh wrote:

When creating an event, simply add the guests to the event's list of attendees. This will add those guests as attendees to the event.

On v2, you can also add the gCal:sendEventNotifications attribute to send notifications to guest:

  https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/v2/reference#gCalsendEventNotifications

 Am I to understand that the "sendEventNotifications" attribute is the equivalent of clicking "Send" in the "Send invitations?" pop-up? When I do a get from OAuth Playground on an event created in Google Calendar, to which I invited a guest (and clicked "Send"), I don't see that attribute anywhere in the return data stream; all I see is "status":"invited" in the "attendee" structure for the guest.

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[James Lampert]

I wrote:

Am I to understand that the "sendEventNotifications" attribute is the equivalent of clicking "Send" in the "Send invitations?" pop-up? When I do a get from OAuth Playground on an event created in Google Calendar, to which I invited a guest (and clicked "Send"), I don't see that attribute anywhere in the return data stream; all I see is "status":"invited" in the "attendee" structure for the guest.

 
And now that I have had a chance to try it, I see that this is precisely what it does!

[etstudent]

Hello,

is it also possible to do this with a python script?

I want to use it in sl4a, to create an event and put some people as guests.

[Sandip Shah]

Yes, sure - https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/v3/reference/events/update

Sandip

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