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Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Google Calendar Passive Agression

Jemma's school is using a mob called
https://www.parentteacheronline.com.au/
to fascilliate booking online parent teacher intervies.  Can't say I'm excited about not doing it face to face and the process here is a bit cludgy.  The booking process is OK it's the provision of links to the actual teams meeting afterwards is really sub par.
1. The links do not show up in google calendar.
2. The downloaded PDF of your meetings has text that says click here but it's not clickable.

Lets not forget how friggin crap teams is compared to zoom.  Like how can a global company like Microsoft produce a video conferencing app for android with no volume control.  How crap is that.

Then to really annoy me, parentteacheronline have no way for us plebs to bring such shortcomings to their attention.

In summary, they should
a) Use zoom or some similar platform.
b) Make sure the info they send out includes clickable links to the meeting.



This is the booking screen.
When done you can download your bookings as a ical file all ready to load into your calendar program.
 This is part of the ical file.
You will notice that it does have a url link to click.
It's the line https://teams. microsoft bla bla

 This is from my google calendar.
The links are noticably absent.

Feels like google trying to freeze out microsoft or some such pettyness.
And while I am complaining about google calendar, the font is way too small and you can't zoom in and separate short duration events.  Slack dogs.


This is the PDF advice of when my parent teacher conferences are on.  They look like links but they are not clickable.




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