Attendee not getting meeting invite on creating event using service account, google calendar API

Question

Hi I am creating an event using service account and added attendees. The response returned correctly but attendees are not getting invite mails. The Service account is not linked (shared) with any google account. Though to login into API console I used my gmail account. Calendar Id was given as Primary. Where the event will get created, on Service account's Calendar or my primary Calendar?. I could not see it on mine Calendar but response returned with Status "Confirmed". I am more interested in invites rather where the original event got created.

Any help would be appreciated !!!

Answer 1

You need to remember that a service account is not you. Think of a service account as a dummy user. It has its own calendar account, drive account and probably a bunch more. When you inserted an event into primary you inserted it into the service accounts primary calendar.

You have a few options.

1. Share your primary calendar with the service account. Just add it as a user. Find the calendar id in the settings and have the service account insert into that calendar id.
2. Have the service account share its primary calendar with you by granting you permissions to it. you should then be able to see it on the bottom left hand side of the Google calendar website.
3. Have the service account invite you to the event on the service accounts Google calendar.
4. Have the service account create the event with you as an attendee event.insert check the body of the request.