"Forced" Calendar entry?

[dmccombs]

I was planning a surprised dinner at a restaurant for my wife's birthday. I made a reservation and the restaurant sent a confirmation email. The email automatically added the event to my calendar (without asking). My wife and I share calendars so we can plan things easier, but now she can see the dinner reservations. If I delete the calendar entry the calendar apps tells me the appointment/reservatin will be cancelled.

This also happens if you make an apointment with Apple. WTH??? Shouldn't it be up to us weather we put appointments on our calendar? How are these companies getting away forcing appointments or reservations onto our calendar?

Does anyone know how to hide or remove an appointment without cancelling the appointment?

 

[arc of the universe]

I was planning a surprised dinner at a restaurant for my wife's birthday. I made a reservation and the restaurant sent a confirmation email. The email automatically added the event to my calendar (without asking). My wife and I share calendars so we can plan things easier, but now she can see the dinner reservations. If I delete the calendar entry the calendar apps tells me the appointment/reservatin will be cancelled.

This also happens if you make an apointment with Apple. WTH??? Shouldn't it be up to us weather we put appointments on our calendar? How are these companies getting away forcing appointments or reservations onto our calendar?

Does anyone know how to hide or remove an appointment without cancelling the appointment?

it would be a lot of work, but you could definitely do it by making a new calendar, and then changing that appointment's associated calendar with that newly made calendar, and then hiding that new calendar. and not share that new calendar with your wife.

 

[dmccombs]

it would be a lot of work, but you could definitely do it by making a new calendar, and then changing that appointment's associated calendar with that newly made calendar, and then hiding that new calendar. and not share that new calendar with your wife.

Actually, I do have another calendar but I am not give an option to move these appointments to the other calendar.

 

[arc of the universe]

Actually, I do have another calendar but I am not give an option to move these appointments to the other calendar.

i see.
now i see your problem.
it probably has to do with the way the event was "automatically" created, actually, that event on your screen is probably a "subsrcibed" event in which case the calendar is created by the restaurant and you are subscribed to their calendar. that would not allow you to change anything except to unsubscribe to that calendar.
you can verify this by opening the calendar itself and if it says subscribed or not. which only gives you delete option.