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Intro

Google Calendar is a time-management and scheduling calendar service that allows users to create and edit events. Use Domo’s Google Calendar connector to find and view public calendar events and ACL Feeds. To learn more about the Google Calendar API, visit their page (https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/v3/reference). You connect to your Google account in the Data Center. This topic discusses the fields and menus that are specific to the Google Calendar connector user interface. General information for adding DataSets, setting update schedules, and editing DataSet information is discussed in Adding a DataSet Using a Data Connector.

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Prerequisites

To connect to a Google service account, you must have a Google service account JSON key. To generate a key, do the following:
  1. In the GCP Console, open the IAM & Admin page.
  2. Click Service accounts in the left-hand navigation pane.
  3. Select your project and click Open.
  4. Click Create Service Account.
  5. Enter a name and description for the service account.
  6. Click Create.
  7. Select Project Owner.
  8. Click Continue.
  9. Click Create key.
  10. Select JSON as the key type.
  11. Click Create.
A private key will be saved to your computer.

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Connecting to your Google Service account

This section enumerates the options in the Credentials and Details panes in the Google Calendar Connector page. The components of the other panes in this page, Scheduling and Name & Describe Your DataSet, are universal across most connector types and are discussed in greater length in Adding a DataSet Using a Data Connector.

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Credentials pane

This pane contains fields for entering credentials to connect to a Google service account. The following table describes what is needed for each field:

Field

Description

Service Account Key JSON

Copy and paste the JSON for your Google service account key. For information about creating a key, see “Prerequisites,” above.

Service Account User

Enter the email address of the user the application is trying to impersonate in the service account flow.

Once you have entered a valid key, you can use the same account any time you go to create a new Google Calendar Service DataSet. You can manage connector accounts in the Accounts tab in the Data Center. For more information about this tab, see Managing User Accounts for Connectors.

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Details pane

This pane contains two menus—one in which you select a report type and the other in which you select the IDs of calendars you want to import.

Menu

Description

Report

Select the Google Calendar report you want to run. The following reports are available:

Calendar ACL Returns the rules in the Access Control List for the calendar.
Calendar Events Returns events from the selected calendar.
Calendar List Returns calendars on the user’s calendar list.
Calendar IDs Select all of the calendars you want to include in your report.

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Other panes

For information about the remaining sections of the connector interface, including how to configure scheduling, retry, and update options, see Adding a DataSet Using a Data Connector.