Android MiCrew and Google Calendar Sync
 

Has there been a change in the last few updates of the MiCrew app in how it interacts with Google Calendar?

I used to be able to sync it on my android device and it would create a separate MiCrew calender in Google Calendar where I could select each trip and copy to my personal Google Calendar. The MiCrew Calendar would show up on the phone version and the desktop version of Google Calendar. I'd use the desktop version to copy trips.

Now the MiCrew Calendar only shows up on the phone version of Google Calendar and not the desktop version and there is no option to copy trips to my personal calendar.

How do you guys sync MiCrew with your personal Google Calendar, am I missing a step?

Airfix

same experience…following and hoping for a solution

No android and MiCrew users here?

I use both but I don't use the sync function as its a terrible product and it's easier to just put them in via hand.

Concur. I do the same. Probably faster too.

Yep. I just type in an extremely abbreviated event in Google Calendar. Literally report and release times, and what layover cities. If my wife wants more detail it is very easy to take a rotation screenshot and text it.

It is all frustrating because the stellar icrewmax had great Google Calendar integration years ago.

I have an iPhone but prefer google calendar. So I sync to my Apple calendar then create an event and cut and paste the details. Would love to be able to skip that step.

Same issue here. I'm thinking a Google update must have disabled the ability to copy a shared/automated calendar to a personal calendar. I've figured out how to essentially get the same result, just with an extra step and a delay in the sync. What I did was subscribe my Google calendar to the Apple calendar on my iPad (I don't use that calendar at all, other than for this). So now when I want to copy my schedule I do the calendar sync on Micrew on the iPad. This syncs your schedule to the Apple calendar, which the Google calendar then fetches and updates. You can then copy the calendar over just like before. Unfortunately there's no way to set the fetch schedule for Google to get the calendar. It just does it when it does it, so you'll have to wait a few hours or maybe overnight and then it will have magically shown up.

Yeah I have tried that method a month or two ago. The delay is what threw me off initially thinking it didn't work but then the next day it was all there. I'll try that again. Thanks.

There has been a change to MiCrew that has disabled the prior ability to sync MiCrew calendar to your desktop version of Google Calendar. Prior to the last update this is what you had to do to sync the MiCrew calendar to your phone's Google calendar and then transfer manually over to your desktop's Google calendar:

***(OLD METHOD)*** MiCrew synch from phone to desktop:
***this doesn't work anymore****

In order to get MiCrew synched on phone to sync with desktop Google calendar you have to:

1. select the rotations individually on the Google phone calendar
2. select top right triple dots ***(now there is only DELETE as an option)***
3. select copy to...events on

It's a little frustrating for those of us who like to print out a calendar to hang in the kitchen for the family to view.

How do you "subscribe my Google calendar to the Apple calendar on my iPad"? Thanks

I'm in a similar'ish boat I think. Apple/Google Calendar user.

-I sync the schedule inside the MiCrew app. It auto populates my MiCrew sked into ICal on my Iphone. My schedule then also auto transfers into my Google Cal, which is nice and all. But my wife cannot see it on her Google Cal even though we are all shared/synced both ways with each other. What gives? I can't find any other box to check.

There are probably a few ways to crack this nut, but I'll just give you the steps based on my situation. I have the company ipad, android personal phone, and a Chromebook.

1) In your Apple calendar, hit the "i" next to the MiCrew calendar on the left side. Toggle Public Calendar on. Hit Share Link and email to yourself.
2) In the desktop version of your Google calendar, open Settings-->Add Calendar-->From URL, copy and paste the URL into the box and you should be set. This adds a calendar and now you can copy events to your family calendar just like before.

Like I said above, Google only grabs the data from your Apple calendar at whatever interval it feels like, so you'll have to be patient until it syncs. I've researched online and I'm pretty confident there's no way to change or even see what the update interval is. I don't think it's ever taken longer than a day. Usually the next morning it's updated. I can't remember where, but there's a setting you can select in Google calendar so that it emails you when it pulls in new events, too, so you don't have to keep checking.

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I'm not 100%, but may have found a way to link MiCrew all the way to a Google calendar via apple ICal.......

A tech buddy had me log into Icloud.com. After logging in, click on Calendar. Then on the left side bar, I saw where MiCrew is listed. Theres a little Wifi-symbol looking icon next to MiCrew. Clicked on that symbol, it then has a pop-up indicating if I want to make MiCrew public or private for viewing. I put wifes email in the private section and fired her off a link to essentially join my MiCrew. (All this I am doing from my desktop IMac if that matters)

Again not 100% if this works, she's still at work as of me typing this. Fingers crossed that was the missing link to make it all sync up and be viewed by both parties.

It worked
 

So follow up to my post above, those steps did in fact work and wife says she can now see the stuff from MiCrew that auto-sync'd over to her google calendar. Nice. One less thing to have to hand jam in there now is nice.

You guys and your wives!

Stand down
 

Disregard. I got too excited. Those steps I previously listed only allowed my MiCrew to get pushed through to her ICal. Better than nothing I guess. Can't figure out what the block between another users ICal and their google cal is?.......

Seriously! What's wrong with "I'm leaving Monday morning early, be back Thursday for dinner. Love ya! Adios!"
I guess some leashes are shorter than others.

Thanks for the post on this. This worked for me!

I guess I'm old school. I just have a whiteboard calander in the kitchen, and I draw lines through the days I'm on a trip or on reserve.

Same. That's what I was advocating. Wife also writes appointments, kid activities, events and things with friends on it. Makes it easy for wife/kids/me to see at a glance what's going on any given week. But having to know each flight and each layover? That's a bit much IMHO.