Sharing Calendars Between Google Workspaces

[Jovanny Gonzalez]

Hello,

We wanted to see if something like this would be possible via GAM, since we can't do this through the admin console.

We currently have a situation where we have a Company A and Company B on two separate workspaces. We are going to be merging them soon, but in the meantime we want the users to be able to see each others calendars (free/busy).

This is possible by having each user go in their calendar and share their calendar with the distro list on the other end.

We were hoping to do this for our users on the backend. 

We were given a script that looks like it could be useful, with some needed modified parameters:

 gam csv ~/Downloads/example.csv gam calendar "~Email" add editor user[insert email or distro list] sendnotifications false

Glancing at this script, could something like this be done? 

My knowledge with GAM is close to none, any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Ross Scroggs]

Jovanny,

Looks good; test with a small CSV file.

Ross

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[Jay Lee]

You don't need a dl/group for this, just share each user's calendar with the other domain:

gam calendar us...@domainA.com update read domain domainB.com

Jay Lee

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[Jovanny Gonzalez]

Thank you!

I'll definitely test this tonight. I'll probably need to add a modifier so it only shares "see only free/busy".

[Don Beck]

I have the same situation - please post how your test goes.

[Jovanny Gonzalez]

So after testing we ended up with this:

#run on gam project for Company A#
gam csv ~/Desktop/Company A email.csv gam calendar "~Email" add freebusy group [Company B Google Group that has entire org in it] sendnotifications false

#run on gam project for Company B#
gam csv ~/Desktop/[Company B email.csv] gam calendar "~Email" add freebusy group  [Company A Google Group that has entire org in it] sendnotifications false

So we did it this way so the script would read the csv file and grab all employee calendars automatically. All the csv needs is the full emails with the header "Email". We chose to share this with a Google Group instead of individually that way anyone in each org can see each others calendars. We lastly turned off the email notification so everyone wouldn't receive all of the emails that said calendars are now available. So once we run the scripts for both companies all a user has to do is click the "+" button to subscribe to someone's calendar, and they should just be able to search as if Company A and B are one entity.

[Peter Long]

Jovanny, is your CSV just a single column labeled Email with all user emails? Fairly new to GAM and I'd like to achieve what you do for two domains.

[Jovanny Gonzalez]

Hey Peter! Yeah, that's correct. I just did a google workspace dump of the OU I wanted. Created a csv with "Email" as the header in column A, and then filled the emails in the same column.