GAM Calendar Functions

[Roberto Ullfig]

I just installed GAM version 2.1.3 and am unable to run simple
calendar commands:

# gam user rul...@uic.edu show calendars
rul...@uic.edu's Calendar List
Name: rul...@uic.edu
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/gam/gam.py", line 3129, in ?
showCalendars(users)
File "/usr/local/gam/gam.py", line 457, in showCalendars
print ' ID: %s' %
urllib.unquote(str(a_calendar.id.text).rpartition('/')[2])
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'rpartition'

Thanks in advance!

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[Jay Lee]

What version of Python are you using? Try running:

python --version

Jay

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[Roberto Ullfig]

# python -V
Python 2.4.3

Does this version of GAM use the new Calendar API released on Dec 14?

http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2011/12/calendar-api-v3-2-legged-oauth-java.html

[Jay Lee]

Hi Roberto,

  GAM requires Python 2.5, 2.6 or 2.7. It won't work with Python 2.4 or older. The error you are seeing is due to using 2.4.

  GAM is not using the new version of the API yet.

Jay

[Roberto Ullfig]

Thanks!

This may be a bit off topic but what exactly is the difference between
a Resource Calendar and a Secondary Calendar. I can't see any
differences except how they are created and the email address domain.
Was Google intending to add new features to Resource Calendars in the
future?

[Roberto Ullfig]

Never mind. I see now that Resource Calendars are not owned by a
particular user.

[Jay Lee]

Right, since they're not tied to any user, there's no worries about them going away when the user does. Also, resource calendars show up to the right when you're booking an event. If you're doing conference rooms, you can see which rooms are available at your desired event time.

Jay

[Roberto Ullfig]

Since calendar support in GAM is based on the old API, Administrators
can't see other user's calendars? I'm getting this error message when
trying to do so:

gdata.service.RequestError: {'status': 403, 'body': 'You are not
authorized to act as cab...@uic.edu', 'reason': 'Forbidden'}

Any idea on a timetable for using the recently release API's
functionality. I'll have to write my own code if it's too far away.

[Lee Schneider]

Jason,

Be advised, one down side to implementing shared calendars as resources is that those added calendars will pollute the list of resources users see if they select "add: rooms, etc." when scheduling meetings.

You can save users the hassle of adding the views of the shared calendars by using GAM (easiest is way is via powershell script). 

Lee Schneider
VP, Technical Services
ArcSource Consulting Inc.
cell: 510.397.9733

office: 510.843.2010

www.arcsource.com

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Jason P. <jasqw...@domail.maricopa.edu> wrote:

Is there any hope for progress on this issue?  I also am getting the "Error: Forbidden - You are not authorized to act as..." message when trying to add institution wide secondary calendars to users in our domain.

As a general Google Apps question, I made the mistake of setting this calendar up as a secondary calendar rather than a resource calendar... is there a clean way to either transition this public calendar to a resource calendar in terms of ownership?

Also will doing it over as a resource calendar make it available to all users to add to their calendars?  It has been frustrating that there is no way to expose a secondary calendar to everyone to be able to find it, select it, and add it to their calendars...they have to know the web address to add it.

Thanks - Jason P.

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[Jason Pociask]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Lee Schneider <l...@arcsource.com> wrote:

You can save users the hassle of adding the views of the shared calendars by using GAM (easiest is way is via powershell script). 

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That's what I've been doing, but a lot of them just error off as described when GAM tries to apply the calendar to them.

We have way too many rooms to set them up as resources, we use Resource25 for room scheduling at the college campus level.

I'll have to get my IdM programmer to add the calendar API call when we provision new users, seems like the best way around this limitation, whatever it's underlying cause.

It would be nice if there was a way to upgrade a secondary calendar to a resource type calendar.  The only way I can think to do it now is to create a resource calendar, export/import the content over to it, and then drop the existing secondary calendar and add the new one on like 16,000 user accounts.

Jason