Google-calendar – Allow only certain guests to edit calendar event

If you publish an iCal/xCal file to your website then your users can subscribe to this using Google Calendar. In the Calendar UI its under Settings->Browse Interesting Calendars->Add by URL.

This causes Google to internally create a new Google calendar and arrange for it be populated with new events from your feed regularly (at least once every 24 hours). To add new events you simply upload/publish a new version of your calendar file.

If its a bit much to ask your users to follow this method, then you can publish a "subscribe to calendar" link or button on your website. The link should be:

http://www.google.com/calendar/render?cid=http://location-of-calendar-file

Or for Apps:

http://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/somedomain.com/render?cid=http://location-of-calendar-file

Google used to have this information in a support document but I can't find it anymore :( I can verify that this method works well - we publish personalized feeds for 150K users right now.

First, you can save yourself a step by double-clicking on the event at your step 1., as this will go directly to 'Edit event details'.

But I suggest you reconsider use of the repeat option for the event. Say you want four identical events, but they occur in a irregular pattern of days. When creating the first event, choose "Repeat", Daily, Ends after 4 occurrences. Then, after you Save and end back in the Month view, find one of the events that is shown falling on a wrong day, and click-drag it to the right day. Do that for any other of the occurrences which are not on the right day. This should do the job. The occurrences are still (sort of) part of a repeat group, but the ones that were moved have a note about the change in their details.