Multiple Calendar Integration
Everyone needs to have a personal and a work calendar, especially if we want a proper balance AND the ability to make things like client selection for our calendars just WORK.
Pipedrive needs to build in a feature that allows for a multiple calendar sync per user. This would help eliminate double bookings for calendar events between work and home life and also allow for other users to manage calendar's effectively (read secretaries and/or personal assistants).
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Hi,
In our company we work with at least two calendars per employee. One general and one employee specific. It would be great for us if we could sync more calendars.
Thanks !
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Thanks for sharing. Can you explain to me what would be in the general calendar so I can understand the use case and pass it on internally? I guess in the personal calendar is their own activities/tasks?
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Mike van der Valk said:
Thanks for sharing. Can you explain to me what would be in the general calendar so I can understand the use case and pass it on internally? I guess in the personal calendar is their own activities/tasks?
Has this been solved or created yet? I am also in need of multiple calendar sync. I would like to have certain Pipedrive tasks put on certain calendars so I can share certain google calendars with family while not sharing others. Also having my google family events post on my Pipedrive calendar.
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Mike van der Valk said:
Thanks for sharing. Can you explain to me what would be in the general calendar so I can understand the use case and pass it on internally? I guess in the personal calendar is their own activities/tasks?
Hi @Chris Lambert unfortunately only one calendar can be synced at the moment
I'll loop in our product team thought to take a look at your request!1 -
Re Calendar - Can display days be customised?
We have always run our weeks Monday to Sunday - Pipedrive's default is Sunday to Saturday which does not sit well...
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Simon Carroll said:
Re Calendar - Can display days be customised?
We have always run our weeks Monday to Sunday - Pipedrive's default is Sunday to Saturday which does not sit well...
@Simon Carroll this is actually totally in your own control. It depends on the date/number format that you've set in your settings. You can adjust it here:
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Hi All, I know this has been covered before but I thought I'd bring it up again in the hopes of it making its way into production some time soon!
Pipedrive has the ability to see multiple calendars when choosing a calendar to integrate it's activities/schedules/proposed times etc. The problem being is that it won't SYNC all of those calendars, it will only sync one at a time. This is extremely painful as soooo many people will have multiple calendars. The simple example being 'Personal' & 'Work'.
I want to make appointments/activities and send people proposed meeting invites that add appointments to my 'Work' Calendar only HOWEVER it must take the personal/other calendar appointments into account. For those other calendars, I don't want their appointments to be seen as activities in Pipedrive. I don't even want Pipedrive to edit or manipulate them in any way. In essence what is needed is the ability to "subscribe" to as many calendars as you like. This would mean I could subscribe to: 'public holiday calendar' 'football fixture calendar', 'personal calendar', 'personal training calendar', 'Birthdays Calendar' etc etc etc. Then Pipedrive and I would know that other things are happening and not to allow appointments for those time slots.
Note: It is super important that if a calendar is subscribed to, the status of 'Busy/Free' is read and understood by the Scheduler. This is important because on the 'Birthday Calendar' for example, It will show a full day event for one persons Birthday. I can still have appointments then, so it must show as "Free" (obviously the Calendar appointment would need to be marked as Free). Conversely a public holiday should be marked as "Busy".
Please please please make this happen Pipedrive team
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Mike van der Valk said:
Thanks for sharing. Can you explain to me what would be in the general calendar so I can understand the use case and pass it on internally? I guess in the personal calendar is their own activities/tasks?
I'm hoping for the same thing. Scheduling from Pipedrive isn't helpful unless I can see/sync both of Google calendars...
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Mike van der Valk said:
Thanks for sharing. Can you explain to me what would be in the general calendar so I can understand the use case and pass it on internally? I guess in the personal calendar is their own activities/tasks?
I agree it would be such a helpful feature to be able to sync 2 calendars to Pipedrive. If I am going to email clients out of Pipedrive and use your scheduler, I need to block my personal availability on my gmail calendar as well as my work one tied to Pipedrive. I hope you guys can add this feature soon!
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Synchronization of 2 or more Calendars to avoid context switching and workarounds.
How it's done now:Personal: Google Calendar, Calendly, Pipedrive (unaware of work calendar)
Work: Google Calendar, Calendly, Clockwise (blocks time and masks personal details)
Example Use-case (selective one-ways calendar synchronization pG <> pP <> wG)
It's normal to have Two (2) or more Calendars that need selective synchronization for Pipedrive Calendar and Pipedrive Scheduler to be desirable features.
Personal (pG): Google Calendar, Pipedrive Calendar (pP) (aware of work calendar availability and use Pipedrive Scheduler feature)Work (wG): G Suite Calendar, Calendly, Clockwise (blocks time and masks personal Calendar details).
Thanks!
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Mike van der Valk said:
Thanks for sharing. Can you explain to me what would be in the general calendar so I can understand the use case and pass it on internally? I guess in the personal calendar is their own activities/tasks?
agreed! I would also love to add an extra email account for my other job and would be happy to pay more if I could go choose between accounts
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Ditto to Paul's message. I'm testing Pipedrive out, and syncing only one calendar could be a deal-breaker. For now I'm forced to do my scheduling through my Google Account which has my personal schedule as well. Is there a status on if/when this is going to be resolved?
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Wow! The fact that PD does not have the ability to sync more than one calendar is really surprising. Team, this is table stakes in today's world. This may impact my ability to stay with Pipedrive, yes, from the functionality, and also from the miss on addressing this clear issue.
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This is an old issue ... any updates on it?
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+1 to this. Syncing multiple calendars (and even multiple email accounts, to that point) is essential. But multiple calendars from one account should absolutely be supported since Pipedrive has access to them already and most serious knowledge workers have more than one calendar within Google Cal or Office365 e.g. team meetings vs individual ones, group shared calendars, a home/personal life calendar etc. Not reading availabilities for Meeting Scheduler or syncing meetings for contacts from multiple calendars is RIDICULOUS. Every scheduling tool, from Calendly to ChiliPepper and ScheduleOnce can do this.
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+1 Would love to sync my personal calendar so business meetings that are booked using scheduler know my availability. I do not put my personal events/agenda on my business calendar.
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Samething here. Sync Google, O365 and Apple at the same place like Calendly does will be nice. I like a categorized and colorized my Calendar (pro and perso) and do sub-calendar for direct invite, calendly, todo and pipedrive so I know which event have been plan/invite by who/which system.
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Adding my vote for additional calendars - love the option to send availability link straight from Pipedrive, but it doesn't help unless I can allow for meetings scheduled in my other calendars (Office365 and iCal).
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Hey Folks, I still wish we had this but I found a possible workaround that is pretty one of a kind on the market as far as I can tell. CalendarBridge Sync (https://calendarbridge.com/sync) lets you sync events between various google and outlook accounts in real time. So, one possible workaround is to either create a separate "rollup calendar" in your gcal, or a separate gmail account purely to serve as the "rollup calendar" and then sync all of your events from other accounts to it using CalendarBridge.
What this solves:
- You can use PD scheduler and have it effectively check multiple accounts for availability
- You can see all of your daily meetings/events inside pipedrive
Problems:
- If you use PD scheduler then calendar invites will be sent from this rollup calendar's email addy
- If that's a problem, I suggest making a new rollup calendar on your primary google account and just hiding it in the sidebar in google + disabling sync of reminders with CalendarBridge so that you aren't seeing doubles on your cal nor getting duplicate alerts.
Curious if this would help anyone!
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Hi @Paul Wood_29660 , @Art Janowiak ,
I was working on a solution to these calendar-related issues on Pipedrive. Supermeet helps to connect multiple calendars and build a scheduler page that you can put anywhere, and collect leads/deals/bookings that can be routed to the right account owner by lead routing!
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
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@pipedrive any interest in solving this problem? The workarounds are not great.
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Set up a Google Calendar account and subscribe to the calendars you want, like public holidays, personal events, or birthdays. Configure the synchronization between Pipedrive and Google Calendar, ensuring that only appointments from your "Work" calendar are imported as activities in Pipedrive.
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One way of solving this is would be using external services, such as OneCal, which sync all your calendars i real-time. This way the calendar Pipedrive is taking into account the availability, will have all the event of you all calendars.
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Hi
Of course just one feature is never enough LOL.
Now that we are testing multiple email sync (and it would be great to know if we could have an add on for that instead of having to go to additional subsciptions), is there any chance you could look at Calendar sync next?
Kind regards
Purnima
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Is there a solution for this? I need the same.
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No solution yet. Seems like pipedrive is going to push users to use the "private" vs "public" option that is native to google calendar. It's a weak solution that doesn't support a good work life balance and at this point has zero support for the idea of multiple email sync.
Spread the word. We will need more critical mass for this feature to be important to the devs.
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This issue with integration of multiple calendars is a dealbreaker for me.
When can we expect a solution?
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Checking in on this - it is now late February 2024 and Pipedrive still will not allow multiple calendars to sync within the same account? I could understand only allowing one Google account to be connected, but it is simply archaic that I cannot import multiple calendars contained within the same account.
This product works AWESOME for keeping my Work calendar in sync, but unfortunately due to these inexplicable limitations I have giant holes in my calendar for daily personal events like doctor appointments and it is nearly catastrophic to my overall great impression of the product.
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Why do we have to implement yet ANOTHER external, complicated, service to what is supposed to be a comprehensive tool here ... is SOLD as such.
Need to be able to sync multiple email (google) calendars. We should be able to choose from a drop-down, and select which calender the item is to sync to.
also interesting that I can't vote for this - the toggle won't go up - and this is likely what flags it as needing addressing by users
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