iCal, Google Calendar, "Add Url"

TyraelTLK - February 26, 2009 - 15:17
Project:Calendar
Version:6.x-2.2
Component:iCal export
Category:bug report
Priority:critical
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:active
Description

Hi,
I can import a .ics file downloaded from my drupal site into google calendar but I can't add the same iCal feed with the "add url" option in google calendar.

#1

capellic - March 19, 2009 - 22:29
Version:6.x-2.0-rc6» 6.x-2.0
Category:bug report» feature request

I have been hunting for information on how to do this, and it would be a great feature to add the ability to present the iCal feed as a Yahoo and Google "add to calendar URL" as seen on Meetup.com and Eventful.com as well as many other event sites I would presume.

I am thinking that the iCal Feed display could handle this quite well by adding an argument that would change the display.

#2

FoolsRun - April 4, 2009 - 19:49

I believe the problem lies in Google Calendar not liking the "rrule" fields. Commenting the "RRULE" line out of calendar-view-ical.tpl.php seems to fix Google's inability to "Add by URL".

#3

abraham - June 18, 2009 - 01:30
Version:6.x-2.0» 6.x-2.1
Category:feature request» bug report

A work around is to create the alias "calendar.ics" of path "calendar/ical". Google parsed this fine for me.

#4

richard.e.morton - June 20, 2009 - 16:29

Hi There,

I have a G1 mobile which uses Google Calendar and a drupal 6 site running date / calendar 2.1. I have the ical working fine. I subscribed to: http://nafof.org.uk/calendar/ical

I did have some issues with this; as in all past events had an end date of the ical generation date (usually today). But this is fixed in recent builds.

using calendar 2.1 and date 2.2

Rich

#5

mziegmann - August 28, 2009 - 19:41

Subscribing.

Also tried the workaround from #3, but when I try to add this to Google Calendar it says "We could not parse the calendar at the url requested".

#6

chiebert - October 9, 2009 - 18:21
Version:6.x-2.1» 6.x-2.2

I noticed this same issue. If I download the .ics file from the ical feed, it can import it (as a file) to Google Calendar without a problem. If I paste the default ical feed link (http://mysite.tld/calendar/ical) into the 'Add by URL' option in Google Calendar, I get an 'could not parse...' error (as with #5 above). If I simply change the path setting in the iCal display of the calendar view to calendar/ical.ics (i.e., add .ics 'extension'), then the new url works in Google. Go figure. Using Date 2.4 and Calendar 2.2 on D6.14.

#7

kangaroobin - November 1, 2009 - 04:12

#6 seemed to work, it pulled in my site title and didn't give me any errors.

Does it take time, like hours or days to actually show events?

#8

TKS - November 22, 2009 - 01:49

subscribing....

#9

kangaroobin - November 28, 2009 - 01:04
Priority:normal» critical

I have tried #3 and #6 and none of them work.

Anyone have any success doing this? how?

 
 

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