Google-calendar – Creating the same event in multiple calendars

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I manage 72 calendars for my business. How do I create an event that will show up in all these calendars at one time? For instance, I wish to announce Good Friday or Easter Sunday all at one time. Normally, I would place this announcement at the top of the calendar on the respective date.

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There are different ways to do this. The best way is to create a new shared calendar, so the different people who are using the 72 calendars can now view those common events in one place.

Another way to do it is to invite everyone to the event from one calendar. The event will then appear on the calendars of those who you invite.

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Google-calendar – Google Calendar: How to show or hide multiple calendars with one click

I realize that you are specifically asking for one click, still I'd like to offer a (mostly) three click solution as likely helpful as well (for anyone not aware of it already at least ;)

Within the left sidebar, under Other calendars, click Settings.
Within the second column, under SHOW IN LIST, click all/none as appropriate.
At the bottom left, click Back to calendar.

Obviously, depending on your calendar distribution between the upper and lower section, you might need to click all/none another time in the other section as well eventually.

In case this really doesn't serve your needs, it should indeed be possible to extend Google calendar via the Calendar APIs and Tools (the calendar class has a hidden property) and/or a Calendar Sidebar Gadget - I'm not aware of an existing solution offering the desired functionality, so you'll need to roll your own in case.

Google-calendar – How to allow toggling of different calendars within an embedded Google Calendar

You could do something like this:

<html>
<body>

<a href="#" onMouseDown="changeToCal1()">Calendar 1</a> 
<a href="#" onMouseDown="changeToCal2()">Calendar 2</a> 

<iframe id="cal" style="border: 0" width="800" height="600" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

<script type="text/javascript">
function changeToCal1()
{
    document.getElementById('cal').src = "http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=mycal1url%40gmail.com&ctz=America/New_York";
}

function changeToCal2()
{
    document.getElementById('cal').src = "http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=mycal2url&ctz=America/New_York";
}
</script>


</body>
</html>

Clicking the links will change the source of the iframe, so you could just create links for a few of your calendars, using the Google Calendar embedded links as the src value.

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