Google Calendar

What a member can do

• List calendars and events, and search events by keyword and time range.
• Read the details of an event.
• Create, update and delete events.
• Respond to an invitation: accept, decline or tentatively accept.
• Suggest times when a meeting could take place.

Each task names the Google Calendar tools it may call. google-calendar on a task means every tool the Google Calendar server offers; a name such as google-calendar.<tool> means that tool alone. A tool the task does not name is refused, whatever the connection allows.

Who connects it

A Google Calendar connection acts as the Google Calendar account that signed in when it was connected. It can do what that account can do, and no more.

Anyone who may change tools in your enterprise can connect Google Calendar for a member or a team. Connecting it for the whole enterprise is for the owner, and the people the owner allows.

A connection can sit on the enterprise, a team, a member, a role or a task, and the one further down replaces the one above: task, then role, then member, then team, then enterprise. A connection on anything but a task also reaches the chat of every member it covers.

What waits for you

In a run, nothing on Google Calendar waits for you unless the task declares a gate on it. To approve each change before it happens, gate the tools that change something on the task. See Gates and tool scopes.

In a chat, a Google Calendar tool that its server does not mark as read-only asks you before it runs, unless you chose Always allow for that member and tool.

Setup

Before you connect

Google offers this server as part of its Workspace Developer Preview, so its tools may change before general release.

Connect it

Google Calendar is an Express tool, so there is no server address, key or app to set up. Work in one browser window throughout: the sign-in returns to the portal in the window you started from.

1. In the portal, open the member's page → Tools. To connect it for a team or the whole enterprise, open Tools in the sidebar.
2. Under Express, find Google Calendar and choose Connect. On the Tools page you are asked who uses it: one member, a team or the whole enterprise.
3. Google Calendar's sign-in opens. Sign in with the account the member should work as, and approve what it asks for.
4. You are back on Tools, and Google Calendar shows as connected.
5. Name the tools on the task, google-calendar for all of them or each by name.
6. Check it. Run a task that reads something from Google Calendar. The run page shows the call and what came back.

You can take the access back at any time: delete the connection on Tools, or remove Zero Human OS from the connected apps in your Google Calendar account.

A first task to try

With Google Calendar connected, give a member a task that uses it. For example:

Each morning, list today's meetings with their attendees, and suggest a free half hour for focused work.

Start this task in the portal. It opens a conversation with your COO with the request written out. Read it, change what you like and send it. The COO asks what it still needs to know, then proposes the task for you to approve: its name, who owns it, its guardrails, the Google Calendar tools it may use and its instructions. Nothing is created until you approve it.