GCalPlus

I love the ideas behind this extension, but it glitches in so many different ways that it's very unreliable. I just wish it worked better!

Neil GerstenbergDeveloperNov 28, 2024

Hi Sarah, I wish it did too! Unfortunately the way Google Calendar works makes it incredibly difficult to modify anything in the page. Some content is continually refreshed behind the scenes so GCalPlus has to monitor the page to detect when Google updates it (thereby removing the changes GCalPlus had made) so it can reapply the changes... I've done my best to workaround these problems, but some things will always glitch. I decided to keep these options in anyway as they are useful, and you can work around most of them by avoiding using the browser's back/forward navigation buttons, and using the Show/Hide Bookmarks keyboard shortcut twice to force a screen redraw the window (for the unreliable "Show More Month Events" option)

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Love how versatile it is but asa I authorise the extension the menu disappears when I click on it. It's there when I have not authorised it. Any chance to solve this issue?

Neil GerstenbergDeveloperNov 4, 2024

Please get in touch by email for proper support at gcalplus@gcaltools.com. Have you already tried disabling other Chrome Extensions to see if there's a conflict?

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The extension has been working wonderfully, but just recently the arrow keys stopped scrolling through my days/weeks/months/etc. I'm not entirely sure if it's an issue with the extension or something else, but it looks like the Google Calendar UI changes have been messing up some features. I'm writing this review to bring awareness of my issue!

Neil GerstenbergDeveloperOct 31, 2024

Thanks for pointing this out. As you guessed Google have changed a lot of things recently and broken several options, including this one. I've just fixed the problem, but it might take a day or so for the update (v2.0.20) to become available (it'll update automatically). Meanwhile, thank you for your patience, and the 5 stars! ps While you are waiting for this fix to be released you can enable the built-in Google Calendar shortcuts in the online settings and use "p" for Previous and "n" for "Next".

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I also love this extension but the "Multiply copy" button disappeared. Can you give a projected date on when this might be solved by? Otherwise I unfortunately have to look for a different solution. Thanks so much Neil!

Neil GerstenbergDeveloperOct 30, 2024

Hi Dan, unfortunately this is out of my control as I can't fix it until I can access the new Google Calendar UI update... It's rolling out gradually at the moment so I expect it'll reach me in a few days, then the fix should be pretty quick. Sorry for the delay :/ UPDATE I've finally managed to access the new version and have submitted an updated version of GCalPlus (2.0.19). The new version should be approved quite soon and your browser should automatically update the Chrome Extension when it's available.

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Hi, I'm new to this - what is the main goal of this extension? Can we add new colors to calendar labels? Is there another way to ask questions on this? Thanks so much!

Neil GerstenbergDeveloperOct 30, 2024

It's not possible to add new colours to Google calendar as they are hard-coded into the system. It gives all sorts of extra features though, like expanding month boxes, showing more all day events, hiding mornings, highlighting busy dates in month grids and a "multiple copy" menu. You'll find all the features listed on the Google install page.

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I've twice had to unistall and reinstall because it randomly makes my month view have a ton of white space in the boxes, and for me that defeats the purpose of month view because I can't see the whole month at once on my screen - I have to scroll down to see anything beyond two weeks. There are some things I love about the app, but this is very frustrating.

Neil GerstenbergDeveloperSep 24, 2024

Hi Sarra, this sounds like you've enabled the option "More Month Events" which is designed to increase the size of the boxes in Month view to display more events. If that's the problem you simply need to disable that option.

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Can you add a feature to wrap the text of the event title on the month view? particularly useful when printing!

Neil GerstenbergDeveloperSep 24, 2024

Hi Thierry, I've looked into this but sadly it's not possible. Even if the webpage is changed to display wrapped titles (which doesn't work well) the modified display is ignored when printing :(

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Thanks for this great extension. It is extremely useful. I am also very impressed at how quick the developer's response has been to questions and suggestions I have had. I can thoroughly recommend the extension and the work the developer has done and is continuing to do.

Neil GerstenbergDeveloperSep 24, 2024

Thanks Keith!

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Perfect declutter for G Calendar

Hides non active hours! Actually makes the calendar useful. Thrilled that I can finally use my Gcal without clutter