Accounts and Authorization

Signing In

Stuck at Authorizing…

Follow the steps below.

1. Minimize all Chrome windows and see if there is an authorization dialog lurking below all the windows. This is a Chrome issue where a dialog can lie underneath everything else and thus very easy to miss. Simply authorize it and you should be able to continue.

2. If there was no dialog in the step above, or if authorizing it did not change anything, Restart Chrome.

3. If that does not fix the authorization issue, then Sign Out of Chrome, and sign back in. Detailed instructions are available on the Chrome Support site. Several users have reported that this fixes the issue (which means this is a Chrome issue, not specific to this extension.)

4. If that fails too, Uninstall and Reinstall from the Chrome Web Store.

I am already signed in to Google Calendar; why do I need to sign-in separately?

Google Calendar for Chrome 1.5+ uses the industry-standard OAuth protocol to fetch your calendar. Once authorized, it remembers that you granted permission, and will not request it every time you start Chrome. Google turned off version 2 of the Google Calendar Data API in November 2014, which had earlier made it possible to re-use your browser credentials. This is no longer permitted, and all apps at this point need to use OAuth-based authentication.

Multiple Accounts

I have multiple Google accounts, how can I see events from calendars in both accounts?

There are two ways: let’s assume your accounts are called Personal and Work. Personal account has two calendars, Personal-Main and Personal-Secondary. Work has two calendars, Work-Main & Work-Secondary.

• Sign in to your Work account in a browser, and share your Work-Main & Work-Secondary calendars with your Personal account (e.g. [email protected]). Then sign in to Google Calendar for Chrome using your Personal account, and you will see all four calendars.

  Instructions on how to share calendars are available here.

• Create a separate Chrome profile for each account, Personal and Work. You can then keep your Personal calendars separate from Work, but still access them in two different windows.

  Instructions on how to create a separate Chrome profile are available here.