Google sync adds private events to public Calendar

Also, I just received a few Outlook emails from the original parent’s email that are showing events. It lists the Event, then says “This meeting is not in the calendar, it may have been moved or deleted.” My email is listed on the WordPress account.

Could this be a Sharing setting on her Google calendar?

The subscribe to calendar link will only register the iCal feed of the site. So if any parents are seeing events that are not from that site, there must be something else going on. Possibly sharing.

The plugin doesn’t obtain access to a subscribers calendar, so it can’t be the plugin.

Hope that helps!

Thanks for the response!

If I’m understanding, the link allows the visitor to subscribe to the calendar feed, where they can import the public calendar to their personal calendar.

Somehow, it seems that the parent’s personal calendar was syncing with the Club feed. Even if her personal calendar settings were public, wouldn’t the feed be read only? Her personal events didn’t show on the plugin calendar on the website, but were definitely added to the feed.

Would having Google settings set to public allow this? That seems weird!

I found out that once the parent connected to subscribe [eo_subscribe type=”google”], she accidentally added her events to the wrong calendar (the Club’s, not her personal Google calendar).

You mentioned ‘registering’ the feed – is it read-only by default?
It doesn’t seem that it is if someone was able to add events to it.

I’m at a loss what to do. It’s not a Google calendar, so I can’t try to change any settings. Shouldn’t it be read-only so people can’t add events? I went through the settings in the admin – – do I have an error there?

thanks for any help – I greatly appreciate it.

Julie

It just adds the iCal url of the site to Google: google will periodically visit that URL, read the list events and add/update them on your Google calendar.

Google can’t add events via that url. It’s read only. It can’t even be made to be anything other than read only. It’ll be listed under ‘Other Calendars’ and when you create an event in Google calendar, you won’t be able to select it as the calendar to create it into.

The user in question must have access to the club account – I can’t see any other way that they will be able to add events to it.

For what it’s worth, I subscribed to the calendar and it seemed fine ( see https://cloudup.com/cgCngcCB3nL). Note that multiple calendar can appear on the same page – usually they each have their own colour. I’ve hidden all my calendars.

Thanks for that explanation.

Who would have ‘access’ to the calendar? Someone with the WP login? This person does not have that.

Is there a setting in WP? Default user is subscriber.

It’s not making sense, then, that they could add events. The board actually wants me to take the calendar out, but I feel like there must be some setting somewhere that allowed this to occur.