Google Calendar Event Not Showing in Calendar

Question

We have created a Service Account in Google and Using Calendar API for adding events, it worked fine before ,after google stopped the account and reactivated it , it didn\'t

Answer 1

In the past few weeks, my team have the same issues, and this is what my team's workaround.

Our scenario

1. We create a service account called google-calendar@mycompany.iam.gserviceaccount.com
2. We using service account's credential from 1) for Google Calendar API
3. Create an event into a service account's calendar like the code below

calendar.events.insert({
  calendarId: 'primary', // it will create an event into service account's calendar
  resource: data,
  sendNotifications: true
})

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What we have done for a workaround.

1. Create a new company's user (let's say system@mycompany.com)
2. Share system@mycompany.com's calendar with a service account by
   • going to "Calendar > Settings > Share with specific people" then
   • adding google-calendar@mycompany.iam.gserviceaccount.com with "Make changes to events"
3. Update the code from creating an event to service account's calendar to just-created-user's calendar like a below

calendar.events.insert({
  calendarId: 'system@mycompany.com', // << we changed from 'primary' to just-created-user
  resource: data,
  sendNotifications: true
})

After changing it, the created-event will be shown in Google Calendar as what it should.

Hope this helps