Feb 10, 2020
Why can't I view my embedded calendars when I'm not logged into a google account?
I tried browsing the site from my Android phone and could see the embedded calendar. I had another co-worker try and she could also see the site.
After troubleshooting steps (clearing browser cache, restarting computer)
To narrow down things, I made a simple test.html file which only contained the embed code for one of the calendars embedded in our site. On the first co-workers computer it still didn't work. I asked the co-worker to login to her google account so I could see if she could access google calendars through the normal interface (suspecting a firewall issue perhaps). After she logged in, my test.html file worked fine. I also eliminated an internal network issue by browsing to our site using my mobile data
Further tests confirmed that users who were logged into the google ecosystem could see the calendars and those not logged in (including my own tests using Chrome's incognito mode) saw a large empty space where the calendar should have been.
The calendars in question are all set to "Make available to the public". I even tried isolating a single calendar this way and pasting a fresh embed code into my test.html file to see if something about the embed code has changed over time. When logged-in to google, the tests work; when run through incognito mode, they fail. I also tried checking and unchecking the "make available" option to circumvent any sort of changes that might have taken place on google's side with respect to the setting.
Has google recently changed something about how and where embedded calendars are allowed to display?
This doesn't just occur on my website. I checked out another company that has a website with an embedded google calendar on their site and it behaves the same way.
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Last edited Feb 11, 2020
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Feb 10, 2020
Unfortunately Google's permissions/sharing system doesn't allow for much fine control over who can edit what. You'd have to share the entire calendar with specific people giving them full permissions to edit or delete anything on the calendar to allow them to create an event.
Jul 10, 2020
That's fine, second best option is that I can add them myself - but they're not pulling through at all at the moment!
Have you double-checked that your embed code includes the calendars that you think it does? It's hard to tell because because you've hidden the calendar titles and selector, so I would go back to Customize and include those in your embed code, and check you've included the correct calendars in the left hand panel. It's hard debugging this without access to your calendars, but hopefully that should help you figure out what is going on.
Last edited Jul 10, 2020
Jul 10, 2020
Jul 25, 2020
I'm getting both results... some iframe embed working and some not. Here is a test page to illustrate both...
...I'm not stuck... have to step away for a bit before figuring out why. But it might help inform this discussion I found before I realized I had a yes-working example on iPhone (as well as my not-working example).
Last edited Jul 25, 2020
Jul 27, 2020
So just to clarify for anyone else trying to embed Calendars for mobile devices, it seems public calendars work for me (on all devices) but private ones do not (on mobile).
I'm good now. Guess it'll be a public calendar then.
Jul 30, 2020
Aug 17, 2020
