How to synchronize Google Calendar & Spreadsheet with Script

Question

I am trying to create a Google Apps Script that keeps a Google Calendar and a \"master spreadsheet\" on Drive synchronized -- is this possible? I found these two posts:

Answer 1

As mentioned (thanks Henrique) in the other post I've spent some time - it was actually what brought me to GAS originally - on data exchange between spreadsheets and calendars mainly because people I worked with where used to organize their time schedule (for a highschool) in spreadsheets and I had to take care of the transition to Google Calendars.

After some time though it appeared that the online Calendar interface is far more effective to create events so they don't use the sheet to Calendar scripts anymore !!

On the other hand, the printing and presentation options in GCal are very limited so the other direction is still very useful and we use it all the time !

I know this will seem to be out of subject regarding the original question and maybe too anecdotic but I just wanted to point out that you should thoroughly think about what you really need before reinventing the wheel... As Mogsdad mentioned, some events parameter are not easily described in spreadsheet logic and finally it could become a lot more complicated to use than the original tool.

The only really useful tool I developed using bidirectional data transfer is a 'batch modification tool" when I need to delete or edit a big number of similar events.

For example if we need to change a teacher's name for some reason all along the year I import all the events for a number of class, replace the name in the spreadsheet and update back the class calendar... it takes me 5 minutes and is very easy but these are very specific use cases and I'm not sure it is very common.

Anyway I wouldn't call that "synchronization" since it only takes some events some time and changes them... I've never attempted to keep a spreadsheet up to date with a calendar, from my experience calendars are pretty reliable and I consider them as the original data source. As I already said, we import data in spreadsheets every week just for printing and local archiving.

Sorry for this long and a bit vague comment (that was way too long to fit in a normal 500 chrs comment ;-)