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doobydoooby

macrumors regular
Original poster
Oct 17, 2011
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Genève, Switzerland
Hi all, I'm looking for suggestions :) I have three or four separate calendars attached to email accounts, they are all logically separated so one is for work, one for socialising, etc. I would like to utilise an online booking system that compares any requested bookings against one calendar to ensure the available times arent conflicted with things I already have going on. I dont want to publicly publish my calendar bookings because some of the information in the bookings is confidential, and so what I would like is to somehow find a way to copy any bookings that i have in any of my calendars to a new calendar, that makes a booking but doesn't keep the details, just blocks off those times. I'm struggling to find a way to do such a thing... any ideas? I would be happy to use automator, an app or whatever might work. The only critical factors are that it lifts and blocks off times that are booked in other calendars, and that it creates those blockings in some anonymous fashion so I dont mind having that resulting calendar publicly readable.
 

BrianBaughn

macrumors G3
Feb 13, 2011
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Baltimore, Maryland
The "online booking system" you use may be a major factor in the answer...what is it?

Beyond that another factor is which service(s) are hosting the three or four calendar accounts.

I don't think Automator is going to help here.

I'm thinking that the booking calendar may not be able to look at more than it's own data when checking for availability. Tie-ins to one or more existing, separate calendars…not so sure about that. Depends on the booking system, for sure.
 
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