Improved Google Calendar integration
We’ve improved the way Doodle integrates into Google Calendar. If you use Google Calendar, you can get the following features:
- When you participate in a poll, Doodle will suggest how to fill in the poll based on the information in your Google Calendar. You can also choose examine the relevant calendar information.
- You will have the option to automatically add tentative appointments to your Google calendar for all the time slots that you accept on Doodle.
- Once the final date and time is fixed, Doodle will remove the tentative appointments and add the final date and time to the calendar.
In summary, the new integration adds new functionality and is considerably faster and more reliable than the old way. And it takes only a second to set it up: Go to your MyDoodle settings and click “Connect new Google Calendar”, confirm, done. If you don’t have a (free!) MyDoodle account yet, register here now.
MyDoodle settings to integrate into third-party calendars
When I try this, I get a message saying “There was an error connecting to your calendar”.
Joseph, thanks for your comment. Our support will be able to help you here: http://doodle.com/about/contact.html
I can’t add multiple google calendars, nor can I choose which one is the most important. I have different google calendars set up for different things, and it only lets me add the one at the top of the list on my account. Is there any way to get around this?
@Josh,
Thanks for the comment. We allow to connect several Google accounts. E.g. private and work (Google Apps). We are currently working on the feature to let a user pick particular calendars (beside the default calendar) for both, read and writes.
Cheers,
Reto
Hi
I can’t connect using my google apps name and password.
it refuses the login on the standard google authorisation page
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@Dominic,
Are you sure you enter the correct username and password?
Below the login field is a lonk “Can’t access your account?”. Click on that and try to resolve your problem through the Google help system.
Regards,
Reto
what about writing on the default calendar, but reading the busy information from all of them? That’s what would make most sense for me at least.
@Kira,
Thanks for your feedback. Yes, we are aware of this and work on improvements in that area.
Regards,
Reto
This feature shows promise, but really needs the ability to use calendars other than the default. Note that I’m not talking about different Google accounts, but different calendars within the same Google account.
I agree with others who have commented on this partial integration.
I maintain about a dozen separate Calendars for different aspects of my life just within my own Google Apps account, have a separate Work Google account, and have access to others belonging to other family members, so Calendar integration is useless if I can’t choose, on a per-poll basis, which of my Google Accounts and which of the Calendars within those accounts are relevant to my availability for that poll.
On that basis, I haven’t even tried it, but it would be good if Doodle could also update a nominated Calender with “most popular” poll choices (for polls that I control and polls that I can see the results of), so that I can see the results in my Calendar as effectively a pending possible appointment, as well as have Doodle take account of my pre-existing commitments to help me respond to a poll.
Julie
@Julie,
Our most recent release fullfills all your wishes. If you create and participate in a poll, you will be able to interact through a calendar interface which now shows all your google calendars. Furthermore on participation you will be able to pick a target calendar. In order to pick any, you need to become Premium member. Read more here: http://doodle.com/blog/english/2010/06/24/biggest-step-forward-in-the-development-of-doodle/
Hope that all works for you!
Best,
Reto
Thanks for the hard work.
My Wife handles all my scheduling. This makes my life easier.
I tried integrating meetings I’m scheduling on Doodle with Google calendar, but unlike previous version, results I get in Google are always “Doodle attempt”, and then I have to click on it to see who I’m meeting with, while before I would see name of participant in Google calendar which made it easy for printing.
Any chance to change this?
@John,
Thanks for the feedback. Since a few months we only include the participation list in the Calendar description for premium users. Free users need to go to the poll site. You can become premium user here: http://www.doodle.com/premium
Thanks,
Reto
Just got it working with Google Calendar. Thanks!
Hi
Often the polls that I participate in do not close, or close late, so I am stuck with many Doodle-tentative slots. The post says it is an “option” but I cannot find where to turn it off! (I still wish to use my Google calendar to suggest times and view other appointments)
Arthur
@Arthur,
Yes, we know about this problem. We are working on a redesign which will make poll closing very prominent. If we don’t see any decline here we will take further actions.
Best,
Reto
Hi
I have the same problem like Joseph “There was an error connecting to your calendar”
Ive tried the FAQ at support, i obviously can connect to the internet etc but could anyone help. Did you resolve this issue Joseph?
Thanks
@Maxine,
Thanks for your comment. Sometimes, Google plays hard to get. Please retry to connect. If you keep getting this error contact us here: http://doodle.com/about/contactForm.html
Best,
Reto
Hi. I first created a poll, then second linked my doodle account to my gmail. Is it possible to link the poll to the google calendar “after the fact?” If so, how?
Thanks.
@John,
You must remove your previous entry and reparticipate. Then before you Save make sure the right calendar in the drop-down is selected.
Reto
Hi. Doodle is a great tool, especcially with Google Calender integration but I’m wondering if you might consider adding a new piece of awesomeness (if it’s not in there already). When closing a poll and selecting the final date, Doodle adds the final appointment to your calender but doesn’t add the participants as guests. This I do manually afterwards by editing the event and adding the participants. Since Doodle already knows who they are, why not have a feature that adds them to the event automatically?. The email Doodle sends with the final date is cool but not as efficient as a calender invite sent directly and automatically from Doodle would be.
Thanks
I still have the same issue as Arthur (December ’10) in that other people do not close the polls, so I am still left with tentative appointments littering my calendar.
I want to edit the dates once the poll has been created. Is that possible? I can’t figure out how.
Sure: just click “administer” and modify your poll.