Search and subscribe to secondary calendars

[TrinityIT]

I was recently informed by Google Support that if a student in our domain wants to subscribe to a secondary calendar they need to have the public ID to do so as it won't show up under the search when looking for a calendar to subscribe to.

I can search for it, but apparently I'm special. 

We have several departments that maintain such calendars and it would be nice to not have to constantly poll them to find out if there are calendars they want to make available for students to find and setup a separate list.  I would like it if these shared secondary calendars could be found with a simple search inside Google Calendar.

[stevelarsen]

You could monitor the audit logs for new secondary calendars that are created and then push the email and name to users contacts or domain shared contacts. Then when a user searches for calendars to add it should show up.

[michael_mcnally]

 What an absolutely useless suggestion. Audit logs do not go back to infinity. If the calendar was created a year ago, I guess Google's answer is "oh, well, just create a new calendar. Don't worry about the confusion of the few people still using the old calendar!"

[samscholl]

If you read Steve's response close enough you would see his suggestion was to create a reporting rule for log events for when secondary calendars are created. This is not a bad idea and is not completely useless at all. He provided a suggestion for someone going forward and not someone trying to retrieve records from >6 months ago. Your audit logs can go back infinity if you export them to BigQuery.