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I Am using the Google Calender API to generate a Google Meet link, my problem is that the attendees need the host permission to access the Meet, I tried setting them as organizers but it doesnt seems to do anything, is there any parameter or something I can add so they can join whenever they want without needing permission?

const event = {
          summary: "Meet",
          description: `meeting `,
          start: {
            dateTime: startingTime,
          },
          end: {
            dateTime: endingTime,
          },
          conferenceData: {
            createRequest: {
                requestId: random,
                conferenceSolutionKey: { type: "hangoutsMeet" },
            },
        },
        params: {
          sendNotifications: true
          },
          
          attendees: [
            {
              email: EmailOne,
            organizer: true},
            { email: EmailTwo,
            organizer: true},
          ],
        };
  
        const response = calendar.events.insert({
              calendarId: calendarId,
              resource: event,
              conferenceDataVersion: 1
          });

Thank you in advance

chris
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Unfortunately currently guests cannot join without permission Google Meets created programmatically

  • By default the event creator is the only organizer
  • An event cannot have more than one organizer
  • organizeris a read-only property, you cannot modify it
  • The problem you encounter is that when creating events programmatically the event invitees do not automatically become Google Meet invitees and thus, are not allowed to join without approval. A feature request to change this behavior has already been filed on Google's Issue Tracker
  • What you probably actually want to do when trying to set guests to event organizers is to make them Co-Hosts
  • Unfortunately, this is currently not possible via API neither, but has also already been requested
  • As of now, all you can do is to "star" the respective feture requests to increase visibility and hopefully accelerate implementation
ziganotschka
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We had the same issue at our client. The work around we found was that if you add the event creator to the attendees list and enable the following feature on the organisation level

Any account from within the organisation can join the meeting without approval. External accounts however still need permission to join the meet.

Jorne van Helvert
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