My spouse and I share a calendar for household scheduling. For 20 years almost, it’s been a Google calendar. I’m switching to NextCloud. They are not (yet).
I know about the read-only subscription linking for calendars… but I’m wondering how I might figure out how to put something on that shared calendar from my Nextcloud calendar?
For example, when we schedule a date night, and I put it on my new Nextcloud calendar, I want it to show up on the same shared Google calendar we’ve always used.
The only way can figure out how to write from NextCloud is to make a new calendar on Google with a NextCloud share link - because I can’t add a link to an existing calendar? IIRC adding a share link would create a new calendar on Google…
I’m trying to avoid a bigger task - is there a way to make 2 calendars sync from different systems?
Don’t think you can do this via a subscription. Subscriptions only work one-way (i.e., read only) I believe.
I have a similar situation and calendar invites I receive get saved to an external (non-NC) calendar. I can view that calendar in NC but if I want to add something I have to do it via that external calendar’s interface. It’s rare that I need to add anything to it so for me it’s not a big deal.
If they don’t want to switch to Nextcloud yet, you could still create the household calendar on Nextcloud and install DAVx⁵ on their phone (if on Android) or simply add it as an additional calendar via settings (if on iPhone). They can then access the household calendar alongside their Google Calendar in the same calendar app they’re already using. If you configure the new Nextcloud household calendar to be the same color as it was in Google, they probably won’t even notice a difference.
The only downside is that if they want to access the calendar in a browser, they would have to log in to Nextcloud.
However, this could also be seen as an advantage, because then your spouse will already have one foot in the Nextcloud world, making it easier to convince them to switch fully later on. Sometimes you just have to gently nudge people towards happiness.
Actually, I was just thinking, I wasn’t fully forthcoming in my laying blame on my spouse. LOL It’s also a “We’re migrating from a system we’ve used for 20-ish years and I want to take it slow and not abandon the old calendar yet.” I feel like I should be using NextCloud for a couple months to make sure it all works for us before we fully abandon Google LOL
After thinking about it, the answer is simple and right in front of my face, although not perfectly seamless, it works:)
Spouse continues to use Google calendar.
I use a new calendar on NextCloud. (Which I have imported my existing Google Calendar into for data)
From now on, when either of us adds a event on the calendar, we respectively invite the email address associated with each-other’s calendars and then the invitee can accept the event onto their preferred calendar…
The only thing that is a tad annoying here is before, we just shared a single calendar and the event appeared on the calendar for both of us without invites. This requires a bit more effort, but not enough that it’s a big deal.
I also suggested to just move the shared household calendar to Nextcloud for now. This was based on the assumption that 99% of the time, people do everything on their phones anyway, which then would make no functional difference for the spouse.
