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Putting an event on someone's calendar

When you share your calendar with someone, they can already see your events, under your name. This page is about the next step: putting an event on their own calendar, so it sits with their events, in their tags, and reminds them like one of their own. You choose it event by event and person by person. Date night can go on both your calendars without going on the children's.

Android only for now, like sharing itself. You need to be sharing your calendar with someone first: see Sharing your calendar.

The People sheet

While you share your calendar, every event has a People option. On a new event it's a tile under Options; on an event you've already saved it's the People row on its page. Under the name it shows who can see the event.

Tap it to open Share With People. Each person you share with gets a card with three ticks:

Tick What it does Starts
Can see it They see the event under your name. Untick it and they see only that you're busy, and only when it clashes with something of theirs (below) Ticked
Add To Their Calendar It goes on their own calendar as well, as one of their events Not ticked
Can Edit Recorded with the event. For now an event from someone else is read only, whatever this says Not ticked

The last two only apply to someone who can see the event, so unticking Can see it takes them away.

Events you made before you started sharing stay yours alone, and their People row says Only Me, until you open it and choose someone.

Clashes

When you tick Add To Their Calendar, Calendite checks the event against their events that you can see. If it clashes, it tells you before you save:

For Bob it clashes with their event Football.

For a repeating event it says how many dates clash, and if it clashes with more than one of their events it names them all. It's a warning, not a block: the tick stays on, and what to do about the clash is between the two of you.

What they see

An event you put on someone's calendar is treated as theirs:

  • It shows with their own events in Month, Week, Day and Events, not only under your name.
  • It wears their tag of the same name. If you tagged it Personal, it's their Personal, in their colour, and their filters treat it that way. If they have no tag of that name, it arrives without one.
  • Their default countdown applies to it, as it does to their own timed events. Your own alerts on it stay with you: alerts are never shared.
  • Nothing on the calendar marks it as yours. Its page says who added it: Alice added this to your calendar.

It's still your event. They can't change it, and when you change or delete it, the change reaches them.

Anything you hide in one of your own views (say, keeping a daily repeat off your Month view) stays your choice; it doesn't change how it looks on theirs.

Hiding it or declining it

On the event's page, under Alice added this to your calendar, the other person has two answers:

Answer What happens Undo
Hide Off their calendar, on that phone only. You aren't told Show It Again
Decline Off their calendar, and you can see they declined Add It Back

Either way the event still shows under your name on their phone, so they can always find it to undo the answer. Declining an event declines everything inside it too.

On your side, the event's People row says when someone has declined, for example Bob · 1 declined, and the People sheet marks them Declined. If you want it back on their calendar, untick and tick Add To Their Calendar again and tap Done. That sends it to them afresh.

Busy, only when it clashes

An event someone can't see sends them its times only: never its name, place or anything else. See Hiding individual events for why that is enforced by the encryption.

They see it as Alice Is Busy, drawn beside their own event, and only where it overlaps something already on their calendar. Anywhere else it shows nothing at all. Under your name it never shows, so your private time doesn't fill up their view of your calendar.

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