Hi,

I'm looking for a way to sync a drupal based calendar with various clients (android + iOS phones and thunderbird) through iCal. Basically I want to be able to enter new appointments on my phone, sync (in this case: push) them to the server and then pull them from the server into my mail client (and the whole thing vice versa).

I'm mentioning this as I think "snyc" means "read entries from my online calendar and show them in my client" for some people. I found hints that the calendar module can snyc over ical but I'm not sure if that includes write capabilities as well. Can you do this with iCal import? If so, a link to a page with setup hints would be great, or otherwise a simple "No" as I can then stop looking for it.

I also found an iCal formatter within the REST Server in the service module, but couldn't get it to work yet as there is no documentation on it.

Any other options (except google calendar)???

Thanks

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karens’s picture

karens commented
Project: Calendar » Date iCal
Version: 7.x-3.x-dev »
Component: iCal import » Code

I decided to set Date iCal up as a new project. It can be expanded to include a Feeds parser for importing ical items and add some features to make it easier to import/export ical feeds. Plus it could have another maintainer that is someone interested in doing more work on the iCal standard. I will be deprecating the Calendar iCal module in favor of that one.

Moving this issue there.

cindyr’s picture

cindyr commented
Version: » 7.x-1.x-dev

KarenS, thanks for all your work on the date and calendar modules. They are so essential and much appreciated!

Can you please confirm, at this moment in time the functionality requested by PeterP (syncing via ical) is not currently available? I looked at the feeds parser, but what is out there is development work for a D6 version, and it's not ready to be tested yet. Do you know if there's any movement towards developing this update-via-ical feature?

coredumperror’s picture

coredumperror commented
Version: 7.x-1.x-dev » 7.x-2.x-dev
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Now that Date iCal 7.x-2.x is available, with it's Feeds plugin for parsing external iCal feeds, you may be able to get this "sync" ability to work. What's available now won't be quite as straightforward as ti2m requested, but I think it'll at least be possible.

If I'm wrong, please open a new feature request issue for this.