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THIS IS NOT A SUPPORT REQUEST, ONLY A DISCUSSION TOPIC
I know the limitations of Nextcloud and calendar software in general. I’m looking for advice and discussion from other users on how to manage calendars in a family context.
Context
I use Nextcloud for my family. My instance has 4 accounts for me, my wife, and 2 children. Each account’s primary calendar is shared with all the others, with me and my wife having edit access for everyone. Finally, I share a public link of my calendar to some friends that make scheduling things together easier.
Problem
Whenever we have shared events where some or all of us are participating, I would like to be able to create an event and invite attendees for whoever the event applies to. This works functionally, but is a visual nightmare, as each event appears on each attendees calendar and crowds out my calendar. For example:
Workarounds
Shared Calendar
I have used a shared family calendar that everyone can see that I’ve used for things that apply to everyone. However, this has the downside of events not appearing in my personal calendar share with my friends. I don’t see a way to include events on multiple calendars, other than copying and pasting them manually. I suppose I could make a separate account (e.g., “Family”, “Admin”) that owns this calendar and invite myself to these events. But that sounds like a prohibitive layer of complexity when setting up device client apps (Android, Thunderbird, etc.)
Single Event Owner
This is how I primarily deal with this issue - assign an event to a single owner (usually myself). This is fine, but then family members have to look at my calendar to see things that they are involved in, and things like event reminders may not come through (usually I turn off reminder for other people’s calendars).
Hide Shared Calendars
Another option would be to just hide other family members’ calendars that are shared with me. This hides the duplicated events and gives me a view of my own calendar. This probably would be the ideal workaround, but it is cumbersome to have to constantly be switching on and off calendars every day to get a picture of what is going on with everyone.
Conclusion
So, I’m really just wondering how other people deal with this. I’m sure I’m not the only one in a family/business setting where people have one-off events between various sets of people. I used to have this problem with Google calendar and remember using some sort of plugin that combined identical calendar events between shared calendars (and did some sort of striped coloring to indicate such). Thanks in advance for any insight you might have!
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