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Whether it is personal or professional, the goals and time management is the key to success. Just imagine you have a goal to finish your favorite reading, or learning the new skills. The predetermined goals matters a lot. Besides, in professional environment, you would have experience the importance of time management. In these endeavors, the Google calendar is a go to tool to follow your goals or keep you professional schedule intact. However, there have been many instances of Google servers down. The incidents caused a brief halt in the Google services including Google calendar.
On June 18, 2019, the Google Calendar services took a halt for many users for a brief period of time. As indicated over the G Suite Status Dashboard, the service is marked for the potential issue. However, the organization does not issue the cause of Google down.
The people who turned to seek their schedule to the Google Calendar specified an error message. The page indicates "Not Found, Error 404." Many of them turned to the social media platform to report the issue. While a day before, the Google mail service had been disrupted for a brief period of time. Some people found it difficult to filter the spam from their inbox.
Google has plethora of useful services. Most of them tightly integrated with each other for a greater purpose. Google calendar has the intuitive harmony with the other applications such as Gmail, Meet, Drive, Contacts and Sites, etc. It helps you to stay intact on schedule.
Picking a meeting time that works collaboratively
Your busy schedule can be so hectic if it involves the childcare, the time zone difference or the excess of meetings.
In this scenario, finding a spot which harmonizes all the concerned people could be tricky. The Google calendar can prompt you to figure out the perfect schedule while keeping an eye on the availability of all the stakeholders.
The calendar allows you search for the concerned people. Simply you can search people name in section on the left. You get the details of their schedule. Just by a glance, you can find an available time slot. That does not overlay yours. Pick the slot and submit the details to save the schedule meeting.
The service can do the wonder when there is an instance of google outage. That forces to have close look over the availability of the people.
As Google calendar has the firm integration for the many tools of G Suite. Once you invite a guest for an event, the Google meet adds a unique code automatically.
Share your calendar
People have a desired balance of more needs from both work and home, making it extra important to consider the schedule of others. But, things get complicated in case of google servers down. Simply, people find it difficult to sync with each other when they rely on most of the Google services.
In such cases, instead of only seeing "easy" or "busy," change the automatic settings so that people on the staff or organization will view the full details of activities on your schedule.
It allows people to see you, they can see whether you are attending an important meeting that cannot be moved or just having a virtual coffee chat that can be moved. It genuinely works for the people who always have back to back meetings and a fraction of free time.
Moreover, if you have google drive down, and google cloud outage. And, you have to pick an important document over there.
You can update and share your schedule with other. It requires following these steps:
1. Go to the My Calendars section
2. Click over the calendar you want to share
3. Click on More (the three vertical dots),
4. Then Settings and sharing.
In conclusion
The process allows people to share your schedule. It turns out to be great when there is a specific case of disruption of Google services.