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I wish calendars would come with booking ability. If I want to schedule a conference room, a laptop, the company car, and the spare parking permit (for example), I have to go to four separate calendars. I'd rather be able to schedule an event and assign resources to it.

I've used Rapla (http://rapla.org/) for this in my lab, and it worked nicely. You schedule an event, it lets you know what resources are available for that timeslot.

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Having rooms is supported - and shown in the actual blog post:

https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/ori...

I can't see why you wouldn't be able to make a car a room - other than that the UI will stay say 'room reserved' or whatever.

Work at Google but not remotely on calendar, and this is exactly what we do with most public, bookable resources. We have PA systems, massage chairs, rooms, etc. all in calendar.

I was not aware of this feature. How long has it been included?

I first used it a couple years ago. I think it is only for GSuite accounts though. I have it on my work calendar, but not my personal one.

Is the process of adding 'rooms' which are actually arbitrary 'things' (like your laptop, company car, or spare parking permit which is picked up from reception) in calendar not a viable hack for some reason? I imagine this can scale to whatever you want to reserve.

I meant I wish Google Calendar would have a resource reservation system. Rapla allows resources to be scheduled. You cando this in Google Calendar only by separately making events for each resource's calendar.

No that is pretty much it, although a little awkward. I wasn't aware of this feature, and must be fairly new. I was doing the rapla booking stuff 3 or four years ago.

Does the "Rooms" feature not fit what you're looking for? https://imgur.com/oiiSdWL

I don't know how this was set up at my work, but there is a separate section to add rooms, and it only lists the rooms that are open during that time. (Unfortunately the list includes every building owned by the company, so I scroll through 10 other buildings to find mine..)

You're probably using a Calendar Resource.

Here's a how-to guide for the curious: https://robinpowered.com/blog/how-to-set-up-room-resource-ca...

And the official support page: https://support.google.com/a/answer/1686462?hl=en

Outlook can do this.

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