Option to sync staff with their own Google Calendar

[Željan Topić]

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[johannesmutter]

I thinks it’s better to create a separate google calendars for each staff, instead of each product. So the staff would be able to subscribe to a certain calendar and get notified e.g. on their smartphone.

Also I think it’s better for the visibility to display “Service/Product Title”, “Client Name” (and “Staff Name”):

In Line 517:

        $event_id           = get_post_meta( $appointment_id, '_wc_appointments_gcal_event_id', true );
        $appointment        = get_wc_appointment( $appointment_id );
        $product            = $appointment->get_product();
        $product_title      = $product->post->post_title;
        $calendar_id        = get_post_meta( $product->id, '_wc_appointments_gcal_calendar_id', true );
        $order              = $appointment->get_order();
        $order_id           = get_post_meta( $appointment_id, '_appointment_order_item_id', true );
        $timezone           = wc_appointment_get_timezone_string();
        $staff              = get_userdata(get_post_meta( $appointment_id, '_appointment_staff_id', true ));
        $staff_name         = $staff->first_name;
        $customer           = get_userdata(get_post_meta($appointment_id, '_appointment_customer_id', true ));
        $customer_firstname = $customer->first_name;
        $customer_lastname  = $customer->last_name;
        $summary            = '◷ ' . $product_title .' - ' . $staff_name . ' - ' . $customer_firstname . ' ' . $customer_lastname . ' #' . $appointment_id;
        $description        = '';

If one has many different products/services, the Google Calendar becomes quite overloaded:

[johannesmutter]

Can you add a filter that creates a google calendar for each staff instead of each product?

I’m not sure if this is correct, but something like this:

$calendar_sync_type = apply_filters( 'woocommerce_appointments_calendar_sync_type', 'product' );
if ( $calendar_sync_type === 'staff' ) {
    // Sync by staff
    $staff              = get_userdata(get_post_meta( $appointment_id, '_appointment_staff_id', true ));
    $calendar_id  = get_post_meta( $staff->first_name, '_wc_appointments_gcal_calendar_id', true );
else {
    // Sync by product
    $calendar_id  = get_post_meta( $product->id, '_wc_appointments_gcal_calendar_id', true );
}

[Filipe Neves]

Hi @johannesmutter

Did you manage to get that code working?

Thanks

[johannesmutter]

Yup. But it’s almost a year ago, will be difficult to find that code snippet again.

[Filipe Neves]

In your functions.php, maybe? Would be really super if you could share it! :) If you do, please let me know!

[Baptiste L.]

I'm interested too !

[Željan Topić]

Issue #249 was marked as a duplicate of this issue.

[Former user]

From what I understand in the above posts it is is possible to have different calendars sync for different products. Correct?

How can I implement this?

[Željan Topić]

Available from 3.7.0 onwards. Staff is able to sync events from all calendars (Google, Apple, Microsoft, ...) that support direct access through .ics.