Merge Meetings and Calendar in Zoom Desktop Client

[Rigatuso]

I have searched at both the Zoom Admin level and the user level to find the recommended solution provided by @CarlaA to this issue, and the solution doesn't exist. When I search for the keyword Merge, I get this response: No Setting Found. I have people at my organization who DO NOT want their calendar and Zoom meetings to be merged mainly because they are responsible for setting Zoom meetings for other leadership in the organization, and they need to be able to quickly go in and find what they need and fix it. 

I need a solution to this issue. 

Please advise. 

[CarlaA · Accepted solution]

Hi Zoom Community members! I sincerely apologize for the delay in my response.

I’m sorry to share that my previously accepted solution is now outdated. The setting for merging the Meetings and Calendar tabs was removed from the Web portal on September 16, 2024. For Zoom Workplace app version 6.2.0 and higher, the tabs are now permanently merged to enhance visibility of calendar views and meeting details. More details on this change are available in our support article: Using the merged Meetings and Calendar tabs. Using the "Agenda" option will provide a view that is more similar to the previous Meetings view, rather than a full calendar view

I understand this change may be frustrating for your unique use cases and I promise to do my best to deliver your feedback to the relevant product teams. Thank you for your understanding. 

[TerryEPMN]

After the last Zoom Windows app update, I lost the ability to see my meetings tab.  I'd had unchecked the "merge Calendar and Meetings tabs" setting when the "feature" was originally introduced and disrupted my technical life. I went to look for the setting on the cloud Zoom instance, and found it was no longer there.  I have two computers. The one that has an updated app lost the ability to see the Meetings tab.  The one that has not been updated has the tab available to me.  The Meetings tab should be restored.  I agree wtih OP.  When I started using Zoom its beauty was its simplicity.  Now it has been integrated with corporate systems with increased complexity and loss of flexibility.

[Khirschmann]

I'm afraid Zoom will just gaslight us and ignore this problem for years like they've now done with the Original Sound by default issue.  I have no confidence that Zoom even cares about this.

[Rigatuso]

@Khirschmann They do keep referring folks back to @CarlaA's solution on that other post which doesn't even exist any longer. But because someone marked it as "solved" they think it's fine. 

[Khirschmann]

Exactly.  Gaslighting!

[Rigatuso]

And it makes me wonder if they don't have AI bots answering these posts! LOL

[DSinCA]

Same issue here. Hopefully a solution soon.

[LVB]

Same issue here.  I don't pretend to be the world's most sophisticated techie, but I'm also not a complete moron, and I've been using Zoom w/o any problems since March 2020. Why have they suddently made it so difficult to find the Meetings tab? What possible logic is behind this glitch? When will it be resolved (really resolved, not the carla link that's useless)?

[Rigatuso]

@LVB, what they did makes no sense. And I need a fix. There are people in my organization who need that Zoom tab back ASAP. And not having a workable solution and no response from anyone from Zoom here is adding to the frustration of the situation. 

[PaidUpUser]

I completely agree. I need Zoom for meetings not for calendar. They have messed up the UI again and I will be looking for alternatives before the next billing cycle.

[erikj0]

Same here, I'm an educator and every workaround to the Meetings tab (opening Zoom links from Google calendar events, hunting for them in my email, logging into my campus LMS to find the right meeting) adds time to my workday. All queries on this forum point back to @CarlaA 's reference to a slider that doesn't exist anywhere in the app or online settings for me. I'm echoing you in the hopes that enough references and @s might actually make a difference.

This does seem to me a clear example of what Cory Doctorow has written about as the "ensh--tification" of technology platforms, when they systematically degrade their own services once their base is "locked in" to using them.

[CarlaA · Accepted solution]

Hi Zoom Community members! I sincerely apologize for the delay in my response.

I’m sorry to share that my previously accepted solution is now outdated. The setting for merging the Meetings and Calendar tabs was removed from the Web portal on September 16, 2024. For Zoom Workplace app version 6.2.0 and higher, the tabs are now permanently merged to enhance visibility of calendar views and meeting details. More details on this change are available in our support article: Using the merged Meetings and Calendar tabs. Using the "Agenda" option will provide a view that is more similar to the previous Meetings view, rather than a full calendar view

I understand this change may be frustrating for your unique use cases and I promise to do my best to deliver your feedback to the relevant product teams. Thank you for your understanding. 

[Rigatuso]

@CarlaA I appreciate finally hearing from someone but this is hardly a solution. I have some folks who are set in their ways and small changes cause major upset. So, what is the reasoning behind making this change? I read the info you referenced and it doesn't really make it clear.

[PaidUpUser]

While I appreciate a response, it is not a solution at all. All of my meetings recur at "no fixed time" and therefore do not appear on the agenda. A meetings tab, should have "meetings". Without this basic functionality, Zoom has rendered itself an expensive nuisance and there are many free alternatives out there. Zoom has made the wrong choice here, and I hope that there is someone somewhere in the company that has the good sense to reverse the bad decision. As I pay for this service, I would have expected far more customer consideration.

[bsalimi]

I’m not a fan of this update either, but you can still find your recurring meetings. Just go to Agenda, and at the bottom of the right-hand side, you’ll see them listed under Recurring Meetings.

[xthyx]

Except recurring no fixed time meetings that I've either been listed as an attendee or a co-host on don't show up in that list or anywhere I can find. They used to be easily accessible in my Meetings tab and now they are nowhere to be found.

[ksawyer2]

@CarlaA I think the issue is that these are not "unique situations" but are in fact very common situations experienced by a large number of Zoom users. I don't want Zoom to ape my Google calendar. I already have my Google calendar open and it has a lot more fine-tuning options than Zoom offers (like not notifying me five minutes before my Out of Office "meeting" every. single. day. while I am on vacation or leave). I want my list of Zoom meetings back so I can quickly find meeting links. What a terrible update feature. Please allow us to turn it off ASAP.

[erikj0]

Yeah, I second this. My use case is pretty simple: I am an educator, and I have different recurring meetings that I need to send people straight into for different purposes.

For meetings with students, scheduled or not, I always need to pop into or invite people to my "Office Hours" meeting, because it's configured the way I want student meetings to be—i.e., with screen sharing and whiteboards controlled by me, and with a waiting room, so no one can walk in during what might be a private and sensitive conversation with a student.

For ad hoc meetings with colleagues, on the other hand, I want it to be a lot easier for people to pop in and out and to collaborate.

Different classes may have different setups as well, depending on the kind of work we do in that class, if it has online meetings.

Opening the Zoom app is mainly what I do to easily access those preconfigured meetings. If I were just working out of my calendar for specific scheduled events, I would stay in a calendar app, instead of working out of Zoom Workplace.

I really don't think this is an unusual use case—it just seems like Zoom is making changes based solely on Zoom employees' experience of their own workplace. The big tech office is hardly the universal working experience that my software EngTech friends tend to think it is and the use case I described should have been very easy to anticipate…

[Rigatuso · Accepted solution]

@CarlaA I am going to begrudgingly "accept" this as the solution because now Zoom is forcing me to choose a "solution," but this is NOT the solution to my issue. The solution would be that you would do the right thing and separate the calendar from meetings and return peace to folks who use your platform. 

[PaidUpUser]

This is very obviously not a solution and barely even addresses the problem.

[raposa]

This workaround only "works" if you link a calendar. After I unlinked my Google calendar, my recurring meetings no longer showed in the agenda. I had to click a dropdown to see a list of recurring meetings which is NOT helpful.

I really want the old meeting list behavior to be restored. Of course it doesn't seem that Zoom PMs will be swayed by the large amount of feedback in the forums around this. Since you're forcing users to this Agenda list workaround, it should at least work to show me my meetings without needing to link my calendar.

[meriment]

To view all your Zoom meetings including no-fixed-time you can use APIs to set up a dashboard that shows them for you within having to click through each meeting to see individual occurrences. If you are not a developer there is a Zoom app, Salepager, that provides you with an interface for your recurring Zoom meetings without having to click into them. You can easily add and remove attendees and they will receive an invite automatically. When you update a meeting invitations are updates automatically.