I have a request regarding other apps integrating in Google Calendar with WPAmelia.
How would I book WPAmelia time slots either side of another Google calendar my music staff entry, and have rules in place to avoid gaps in schedule?
I use the online app my music staff, link above. Their service has limited integration capability. I use the online app WPAmelia booking on my website. I was recommended to use MMS for booking, but decided to use WPAmelia as was a customisable wordpress plugin.
Both my music staff, and WPAmelia are synced to my google calendar account. But times from each app are overlapping.
I know that an app exists like Zapier, but is there an easier way to integrate both apps?
Integration with this app is not something that can be added quickly. We develop new features and integrations based on the number of customer requests, and this is the first time we hear about this app, so I can safely say that it is not on our "To-Do" list.
What I believe you want, though, doesn't require any integration. All you need is that times blocked by "My Music Staff" in Google Calendar are removed from Amelia's availability, correct? If that is true, make sure this app is creating "Busy" events in your Google Calendar, and then go to Amelia Settings/Integrations/Google Calendar, and enable "Remove Google Calendar busy slots". When this is enabled, Amelia will block time slots set as busy in your Google Calendar, so no one will be able to book those times.
Also, depending on how many busy events you have, or plan to have, it might be a good idea to increase the "Maximum number of events returned" to a large value.
I am in a generous mood after hunting for four weeks for a solution:
The solution to this issue is in 'my calendars' versus 'other calendars' in google calendar.
I suggest to provide great customer service: 1. Upgrade your info,
2. issue a video on this to help others when subscribing to an external calendar feed in google calendar, so that Amelia can recognise events. (Amelia cannot if a calendar is subscribed to, only under 'other calendars'. A ridiculous waste of time.)
1. What exactly do you have in mind? I'm aware that Google changes their procedures every once in a while, but is there anything missing in our documentation that lead you astray?
2. The calendars you're subscribed to in your Google account are not coming from the same account, so Amelia can't see them. This is the plugin's logic since in order to remove busy events, or write in the calendar, you need to go through the sign-in process in Amelia/Employees. So, if under [email protected] you have calendars you're subscribed to (which are coming from [email protected]), you can't log into [email protected] and see the calendar of another account. You would need to log into [email protected] in order to see and write events in that calendar - without permissions, you can't expect the data to be either read or written in those.
3. This is the same limitation that's explained under #2 - you can't see a calendar you haven't created.
Please let us know if you have any further questions.
Dear Amelia Community,
I have a request regarding other apps integrating in Google Calendar with WPAmelia.
How would I book WPAmelia time slots either side of another Google calendar my music staff entry, and have rules in place to avoid gaps in schedule?
I use the online app my music staff, link above. Their service has limited integration capability.
I use the online app WPAmelia booking on my website.
I was recommended to use MMS for booking, but decided to use WPAmelia as was a customisable wordpress plugin.
Both my music staff, and WPAmelia are synced to my google calendar account.
But times from each app are overlapping.
I know that an app exists like Zapier, but is there an easier way to integrate both apps?
Thank you in advance for your help,
Dan
Hello Dan
Thank you for your purchase.
Integration with this app is not something that can be added quickly. We develop new features and integrations based on the number of customer requests, and this is the first time we hear about this app, so I can safely say that it is not on our "To-Do" list.
What I believe you want, though, doesn't require any integration. All you need is that times blocked by "My Music Staff" in Google Calendar are removed from Amelia's availability, correct? If that is true, make sure this app is creating "Busy" events in your Google Calendar, and then go to Amelia Settings/Integrations/Google Calendar, and enable "Remove Google Calendar busy slots". When this is enabled, Amelia will block time slots set as busy in your Google Calendar, so no one will be able to book those times.
Also, depending on how many busy events you have, or plan to have, it might be a good idea to increase the "Maximum number of events returned" to a large value.
Kind Regards,
Aleksandar Vuković
[email protected]
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Hi Alex,
I am in a generous mood after hunting for four weeks for a solution:
The solution to this issue is in 'my calendars' versus 'other calendars' in google calendar.
I suggest to provide great customer service:
1. Upgrade your info,
2. issue a video on this to help others when subscribing to an external calendar feed in google calendar, so that Amelia can recognise events. (Amelia cannot if a calendar is subscribed to, only under 'other calendars'. A ridiculous waste of time.)
3. Don't just point them in this direction:
https://karenapp.io/books/gc/google-calendar-integration/how-to-add-a-calendar-from-other-calendars-to-my-calendars-in-google-calendar/
Dan
Hey Dan
Thank you for your feedback.
1. What exactly do you have in mind? I'm aware that Google changes their procedures every once in a while, but is there anything missing in our documentation that lead you astray?
2. The calendars you're subscribed to in your Google account are not coming from the same account, so Amelia can't see them. This is the plugin's logic since in order to remove busy events, or write in the calendar, you need to go through the sign-in process in Amelia/Employees. So, if under [email protected] you have calendars you're subscribed to (which are coming from [email protected]), you can't log into [email protected] and see the calendar of another account. You would need to log into [email protected] in order to see and write events in that calendar - without permissions, you can't expect the data to be either read or written in those.
3. This is the same limitation that's explained under #2 - you can't see a calendar you haven't created.
Please let us know if you have any further questions.
Kind Regards,
Aleksandar Vuković
[email protected]
Rate my support
wpDataTables: FAQ | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Front-end and back-end demo | Docs
Amelia: FAQ | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Amelia demo sites | Docs | Discord Community
You can try wpDataTables add-ons before purchasing on these sandbox sites:
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