2 messages in com.googlegroups.google-calendar-help-dataapiRe: In migration scenario, multiple u...
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bobb23 Jul 2008 09:14 
Austin (Google)24 Jul 2008 10:25 
Subject:Re: In migration scenario, multiple users receiving multiple duplicate calendar events
From:Austin (Google) (api.@google.com)
Date:07/24/2008 10:25:15 AM
List:com.googlegroups.google-calendar-help-dataapi

Hi,

One thing you may want to try is to submit the event with syncEvent set to be true. I believe that will suppress the autho-entry -

http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/reference.html#gCalsyncevent

I have written an example of how to use syncEvent -

http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=319#c17

Hope that helps, Austin

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:14 AM, bobb <bbal@gmail.com> wrote:

Here's the hypothetical situation: I have UserA and UserB, both being migrated from their legacy email platform to GoogleApps/Calendar. Both have GMail accounts in the same domain.

I upload UserA's calendar first. UserA is chair of several meetings containing UserB as an attendee, and UserA is also an attendee of meetings at which UserB is also an attendee. When these events appear in UserA's Google calendar (this might apply only to events where A is the chair, I haven't confirmed this yet), some (all?) of them which also involve UserB AUTOMATICALLY appear in UserB's calendar as well.

Then, we I upload UserB's calendar (which contains many of the same events as A), the reverse happens.

Now both UserA and UserB have multiple entries for the same meeting on their calendars, which is very annoying to both of them.

Is there any way to suppress the auto-entry of events in GCal? At least for the duration of the migration process?