Using Zoom's Google Calendar Notifications Chat app
Zoom’s Google Calendar Notifications Chat app allows you to receive Zoom Team Chat notifications and messages for any updates and changes from your Google Calendar.
Requirements for Google Calendar Notifications
- A Google account
- Preapproval of the Google Calendar Notification app in Zoom App Marketplace
Note: If the app is not pre-approved, please contact your Zoom admin.
How to install and configure Google Calendar Notifications
Install from the Zoom App Marketplace
- Sign in to Zoom App Marketplace with your Zoom account.
- In the top right of your screen, enter Google Calendar Notifications in the search box to find the app.
- In your search results, find the Google Calendar Notifications app and click it.
Note: If the app is not pre-approved, please contact your Zoom admin to approve the app for your account. - Click Add.
- Confirm the permissions the app requires, then click Allow.
You will then be redirected to Google to authenticate your Google Account and authorize Zoom. Once completed, you will return to the configuration page.
Configure Google Calendar Notifications
After installing the app from the Zoom App Marketplace, you will be redirected to the Google Calendar Subscription page.
- Click Authenticate with your Google Calendar account.
- Choose your Google account to receive notifications from.
- Confirm the permissions, then click Allow.
- Complete the Basic Configurations:
- Give the subscription a Name.
- Select what Channel you would like to add the app to.
- Add a Description.
Note: If you want to receive notifications directly from the app, choose the Your Contact option.
- Complete the Google Calendar Configurations:
- Select a Calendar Source: Choose the calendar that you want to receive notifications from. This is typically your own calendar.
- Reminders: Choose when to receive reminders.
- Calendar Updates: Choose what type of updates trigger a notification from the Zoom app.
- Summary of events: Choose to receive either a daily or weekly summary of your events.
- Once complete, select Save Configuration.
You will now receive chat messages on Zoom based on your configuration.
How to interact with the Google Calendar Notifications app
After setting up a Google Calendar notifications subscription, you’ll start receiving chat notifications in the Zoom channel you selected for that subscription. You can also interact with the app directly in a 1:1 chat using slash commands.
Available Slash Commands
/gcal tomorrow – View all events scheduled for tomorrow./gcal today – View all events scheduled for today./gcal disconnect <calendar name> – Disconnect from a Google account or calendar source./gcal connect <calendar name> – Connect to a Google Calendar source to receive notifications in this channel./gcal configure all – View a list of Google Calendar notifications across all channels./gcal configure – View a list of Google Calendar notifications connected to the current channel./gcal help – Display the full list of available commands.
How to remove the Google Calendar Notifications app
- Sign in to Zoom App Marketplace with your Zoom account.
- In the top right of the page, click Manage.
- In the navigation menu, click Added Apps.
- Next to the Google Calendar Notifications app, click Remove.
- Confirm the dialogue and click Remove.
Data Security
This app has access to the following information on Google Calendar:
- Read permission – View your primary Google Calendar account email address and associate it with your personal information on Google Calendar.
- Read Google Calendar event permissions.
This Team Chat app has the following permissions on Zoom:
- Send a chat message to an IM channel or Zoom user under the Zoom account.
- View your user information.
- View the current user's Team Chat channels.
Communications between this Team Chat app and Zoom/Google Calendar are encrypted:
- Protocol: TLS 1.2
- Cipher suite: ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
- Key length: 128 bits
- Perfect Forward Secrecy: YES
This Team Chat app stores access credentials in the local data store:
- Google Calendar API tokens and Zoom OAuth credentials (both user-level only) are stored in an encrypted database.