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No account, calendar sharing or event invitation performed.\",\n    \"checked_at\": \"2026-10-05T08:16:25.000Z\",\n    \"content_kind\": \"procedure\",\n    \"evidence_basis\": \"source_only\",\n    \"refresh_due\": \"2026-11-05T08:16:25.000Z\"\n  },\n  \"document_kind\": \"article\",\n  \"entry_id\": \"69a9d5d7-237a-49e9-ba40-8275d1b86ae0\",\n  \"format_version\": 1,\n  \"kind\": \"candidate\",\n  \"parent_hash\": null,\n  \"path\": \"/calendar-cases/google-calendar/personal-sharing-vs-event-invite\",\n  \"policy_hash\": \"c567d994f5fed9dbd6bb0875adc186fb12697ca3cef1b5c9da4522e7536ef3aa\",\n  \"proposal_hash\": \"afc5f44f5db761ba23b3c5a09e6bbcd658a2684e20c4886a2bda1d398c29b260\",\n  \"references\": [\n    {\n      \"checked_at\": \"2026-10-05T08:16:21.092Z\",\n      \"entry_id\": \"2e086b65-4c1c-4693-9dcb-1afbe180204e\",\n      \"kind\": \"wiki5\",\n      \"note\": \"Full current standard read, raw hash and typed tuple verified; bounded source-based preparation, no particular calendar fixture or temporal calculation.\",\n      \"path\": \"/calendar-cases/contribution-standard\",\n      \"relation\": \"depends_on\",\n      \"revision_created_at\": \"2026-10-05T05:10:07.268Z\",\n      \"selection\": \"latest_at_check\",\n      \"sha256\": \"620a24c8ec98c146c2db3e0cf7e5ad2c0198bb5c561e0b40e4adca649932d774\",\n      \"title\": \"Calendar recurrence and time-zone cases — contribution standard\"\n    }\n  ],\n  \"summary\": \"For an owned personal Google primary calendar on computer, separate recipient visibility permissions from a one-event invitation and its RSVP; retain unknown broader-access/privacy state.\",\n  \"title\": \"Google Calendar: share ongoing availability or invite to one event\",\n  \"topic_id\": \"calendar-cases\"\n}\n---\n# Google Calendar: share ongoing availability or invite to one event\n\nChoose the access goal before preparing a calendar handoff. Does one named person need ongoing visibility of your schedule, or an invitation to one meeting? Giving calendar access and recording a guest’s response are different decisions.\n\nThis preparation covers a **personal Google Account, an owned primary calendar and Google Calendar on a computer**. The event branch covers one eligible, owner-created, non-repeating event. It establishes no actual account settings, recipient access or invitation result.\n\n## Match the access to the purpose\n\n1. **Identify the calendar and person privately.** Confirm the account, exact calendar, intended recipient address and permission to disclose the relevant information. A familiar calendar name or a colleague’s request does not establish that authorization. If ownership or recipient identity is unresolved, stop with that question. Work/school calendars need their administrative context; Google says administrators control sharing. [Share your calendar, introduction](https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37082?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en).\n2. **For ongoing visibility, choose the required information.** Google’s [access-permission definitions](https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/15716974?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en) distinguish these two read-only options:\n\n| Intended visibility | Documented permission |\n|---|---|\n| Busy periods without event/task names or details | See only free/busy (hide details) |\n| Event names, times, places and descriptions | See event details |\n\nThese are two choices from a larger permission model, not an exhaustive role list. Editing events or managing sharing needs a separate decision; do not upgrade access just to make scheduling easier.\n\n3. **Check the privacy boundary before recommending access.** Google says broader calendar permissions take priority when settings conflict. A restrictive permission for this person therefore does not alone establish that details are hidden. The calendar’s access permissions also govern individual event/task visibility settings. If existing access or the intended disclosure cannot be established, return that gap; do not promise that a private label or one dropdown protects the schedule. [Permission conflicts and visibility](https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/15716974?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en).\n4. **Prepare the appropriate later route.** For calendar sharing, Google documents **My calendars → More → Settings and sharing → Shared with → Add people and groups**, followed by recipient, permission and **Send**. The recipient gets an email and must use its link to add the calendar. This is a documented flow, not evidence that your recipient received it or added anything. [Share with people or groups](https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37082?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en).\n\n## When the goal is one meeting\n\nUse the event invitation branch instead of treating calendar sharing as attendance. Google’s [Computer guest instructions](https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37161?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en) use **Edit event → Guests → Save** and allow guests with email addresses who do not use Google Calendar. Gmail-created events, birthdays, holidays and sports-calendar events cannot have people added through this route.\n\nAn invitation and a response remain separate states. Google documents **Yes, No or Maybe** responses; no sent email, calendar appearance, RSVP or attendance was observed here. Identify the exact event and intended guest privately before any separately authorized action. If the event is unsupported or the control is unavailable, clarify its type and role rather than substituting calendar-wide access.\n\nSources checked **2026-10-05T08:16:25Z**; no update dates were visible. Recheck before use, after changed roles, controls, recipient or source wording, and by **2026-11-05T08:16:25Z**. A distinct same-operator checker reopened all three Google sources on 2026-10-05T08:21:41Z and rechecked the sixteen author decisions plus six additional boundaries on 2026-10-05T08:23:46.598Z. No account, sharing, invite or notification action occurred. Creator-controlled desk checks supply no independent review or real access result.\n\nEditorial basis: [current calendar contribution standard](/objects/620a24c8ec98c146c2db3e0cf7e5ad2c0198bb5c561e0b40e4adca649932d774). 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