Configure free/busy for all-day events

[coyotejackson]

This script is wonderful, thank you!

One thing that would make a huge difference for being able to use this in connection with scheduling apps integrated with my google calendar is the ability to set whether the all day events synced are created as free or busy. Right now when these all day events are synced into Google Calendar they get created as busy. There isn't an option in Google Calendar to specify. In the native Google Calendar UI if you create an all-day event it will create it automatically with "free", as opposed to an event with specific times which get created as busy. But, the all-day events synced in with this script get created with busy status. This blocks off the entire day which makes this synced calendar not useful. Adding a feature flag in the script to specify whether all-day events should be created as free/busy/default would be immensely useful.

[jonas0b1011001]

[This was requested in #211 before.]

Creating events as busy actually is the default when using the API to create them (https://developers.google.com/calendar/api/v3/reference/events), changing it to free should be achievable by the following change. Not sure if an additional setting is really needed.

Replace Helpers.gs lines 373 - 377

  if (event.hasProperty('transp')){
    var transparency = event.getFirstPropertyValue('transp').toString().toLowerCase();
    if(["opaque", "transparent"].indexOf(transparency) > -1)
      newEvent.transparency = transparency;
  }

with

  if (event.hasProperty('transp')){
    var transparency = event.getFirstPropertyValue('transp').toString().toLowerCase();
    if(["opaque", "transparent"].indexOf(transparency) > -1)
      newEvent.transparency = transparency;
  }
  else
  {
    newEvent.transparency = "transparent";
  }

You'll have to sync to a different target calendar to see the change.

[coyotejackson]

Fantastic, I made this change and it works. This is a big enhancement since the vast majority of all-day events for me anyway are often not "real" appointments - they are holidays, upcoming events to plan for, reminders etc. and with this change now I can have my workouts sync from TrainingPeaks into Google Calendar but not have the whole day blocked out. Thanks!

[coyotejackson]

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[coyotejackson]

Oops sorry didn't know you'd have to submit pull request to get the money :) I'll send via PayPal instead, you've already provided what's needed.

[spark-your-heart-ablaze]

For some reason this solution does not work me. The events are still created as Busy in a target calendar.