Drag & Drop to Google Calendar

[Michel]

Hi dev-team,

Wouldn't it be a GREAT idea if you could drag & drop tasks in Google
Calendar?
This is by far the biggest feature I'm missing atm with Google
Calendar.

Is this even technically possible?

[Cameron (GQueues Team)]

Michel,

You can, in fact, drag GQueues tasks in Google Calendar and the new date is synced back up to GQueues.  Check out the Getting Started video at the link below.  The drag/drop is shown starting around the 2:30 minute mark.

http://www.gqueues.com/help/videoTutorials#gqStartedVideo

-Cameron

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[Michel]

Thanks for your reply Cameron. I'm aware of the functionality and it's
absolutely useful.
However what I meant, instead of the rescheduling situation, was this:
Imagine a two-pane situation, where on the left is my task list and on
the right is gCal. Whenever I want to play my week ahead with tasks,
it's not possible to just drag the task onto a specific date: I always
have to manually input the date.

Concerning the programmabilty part: I don't know how Gcal renders, but
I can imagine you can extract the date-information from the rendered
Calendar when you drop an task on a certain date.

Concerning usability, the benefit are:
- Planning your tasks while being able to keep an eye on your schedule
one interface [instead of going back and forth from tasklist to
calendar]
- Drag and drop [beats typing]

I've done alot of research on the web and have found not one (!) app
that has this feature, apart from Mozilla Sunbird which is realllly
buggy.

What are your thoughts about such functionality?

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[bnapptural]

There is one site I've found with this capability, it's called skoach
www.skoach.com . I used it for a few months and really enjoyed many of
it's features. It allows you to set up life categories time frames as
a template and then overlay your schedule and tasks on a calendar. It
even let's you know when you've scheduled more tasks and appointments
for a time period then you actually have time for. I would love to see
the drag tasks onto a calendar feature as well it was the most usefull
way I've found to plan my day visually.

[bnapptural]

Along the same line it would be almost as useful to be able to give a
task an all day due date and then be able to drag and drop it from all
day to a time once we decide when we can fit it into our schedule for
the day. Currently if you give someting a due date but no time you can
move it from day to day but not to a time slot.

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[Michel]

Many thanks, will check Skoach for a while!
Dev-team: got any idea if you can add such feature?

[Michel]

Well, I've checked out Skoach, and I must say that I'm impressed by
the software, yet the interface is not comfortable for some reason.
Gqueues to the resqueue? :)

[Cameron (GQueues Team)]

Michel - 

Thanks for the suggestion, I can see how dragging a task directly onto a calendar could make scheduling a task really simple.  Unfortunately I don't see this functionality coming to GQueues anytime soon because of the technical hurdles involved.  GQueues' integration with Google Calendar is built-on, and limited to, the functionality provided by the Google Calendar API.  Right now there is no way for outside items to be dragged onto a Google Calendar and converted into events. 

So for now you will first have to assign a task and date, and then drag it around on Google Calendar if you want to adjust your schedule.  Perhaps improvements to the GQueues Calendar gadget could make this easier (with new functionality to create tasks or edit existing ones) - I have this on my list.

-Cameron

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[xja]

Being able to drag directly onto Google Calendar does seem like an
impossible thing to implement. However, how about just having a
"daily view" calendar control within the GQueues web interface (maybe
an optional third column... similar to Skoach) onto which items can be
dragged to schedule, with items being rescheduled on Google Calendar
just as they are when we edit the date of an item using the date/time
picker?

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[Martin Hering]

Hello dear developer team!

I am bringing this question up again, with the hope that in the last five years maybe something changed on the topic.

I chose GQueues exactly for it's integration into GMail and GCal. Except that I still find myself fiddling around with the date and time scrubbers, clicking extra boxes for adding due dates etc. - whilst in Outlook for example I can just drag an E-Mail directly into the calendar.

Maybe a solution to draw information from calendars and display them in a quick pane could be worked up? I know that Google doesn't even allow their services to be displayed in frames or iframes, so it would probably have to be a workaround...

A little option to write the date and time (in european DD.MM.YYYY and 24h format) by hand would help the "fiddling around" issue a little bit.

Apart from that little flow-slower, I do really appreciate your app and services, planning to migrate all of my projects and tasks here.

Thank you very much!

Martin

[Alex Weight]

Thought I would bump this topic as well. Its been close to 8 years now. Any chance of this feature being added??

Honestly, there is still NOTHING like this out there. It seems like such a simple request. I want to be able to see my appointments AND tasks in one view. I would like to drag and drop my tasks from a list on the left or right INTO the cal. And then I would like to be able to check them off when they are done and see this reflected in both the list and the cal.

I don't want to open multiple windows and assigns dates then export these tasks to my cal. Seriously. It just needs to be simple.

The closestI've found is this - https://www.tmanager.co/calendar

But its in Beta and doesn't work perfectly well. But, it is enough for you to see what we are talking about.

How about it? Its been 8 years. Can we get it done?