Allow Free/Busy Google Calendar room booking

When you create a new Google Calendar resource in the Google Admin console, and secondary calendar sharing is enabled (as Free/busy or See all details), users in your domain can schedule meetings in those resources by default. However, as an administrator you can change this default setting for your domain, and choose whether to allow users to book resources that are shared as free/busy.

With this setting enabled you can hide sensitive event information from users in your domain without preventing them from booking those resources.

  1. In the Google Admin console, go to Menu and then  Apps and then Google Workspace and then Calendar.

    Requires having the Calendar administrator privilege.

  2. Click General settings.
  3. Click Resource booking permissions and check the Allow users to book resources that are shared as "See only free/busy" box.

    Note: If a super administrator turns on Multi-party approval for General Calendar Settings, any change to this individual setting triggers a Multi-party approval process before the change is allowed to take effect. For details, go to Multi-party approval for sensitive actions.

Super administrators can book all resources in the domain, regardless of whether this setting is set to on or off.