Google Calendar API: Event source.title and source.url : new calendar interface shows "This event was automatically created from an email."

Question

When creating an event with the API: https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/v3/reference/events/insert

If I fill the fields source.title and source.url:

source.title string Title of the source; for example a title of a web page or an email subject. source.url string URL of the source pointing to a resource. The URL scheme must be HTTP or HTTPS.

With the old interface, on the event I could see a read-only field, between "Calendar" and "Description":

Source [Link icon] The title of my link, from [source.title]

And "The title of my link, from [source.title]" was a link to [source.url]

With the new calendar interface, the same event instead shows:

[Email icon] This event was automatically created from an email. [View confirmation]

And [View confirmation] is a link to [source.url]

Am I missing something? Is that a bug on the new interface or is the API documentation deprecated for these fields?

The bug tracker link to that issue: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/73334552

Answer 1

There was recently a large upgrade of the Google calendar web UI. This happend around October if memory servies.

This looks like a bug to me there have been a few of them asssoicated with the API and the new web UI not being updated and fully tested.

I am going to reach out to my contacts at Google to have someone check this in the mean time would you mind posting this on the issue tracker and pasting me the link? issue tracker