iCal doesn't import everything in Outlook
haeger - April 20, 2009 - 08:46
| Project: | Event |
| Version: | 6.x-2.x-dev |
| Component: | Miscellaneous |
| Category: | bug report |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
Using MS-Outlook 2003 and drupal it seems that I can't import "everything" from drupal into Outlook.
If I choose the "month" view in Event and then press the little iCal-button at the bottom right I download an iCal file that I open with Outlook (the suggested application). However I only get the first event imported. All other events are discarded.
My expectation would be that it would import all events in that view.
I would like to use drupal as my "main" calendar and export things from there to other applications but this bug prevents me from doing this. Currently I'm updating several calendars manually with the Exchange-one being the "main" which isn't what I'd like.
Thanks for listening.
#1
I have no way to debug this in Outlook. It works in other apps.
Somebody else needs to help here.
#2
I have outlook. Is there something I can do to help?
#3
Well, can you try to reproduce what the original reporter claimed would happen?
Also, are there any error messages sent by outlook?
#4
I am the original reporter so perhaps it would be better if someone else tried it to see if the same thing happens, but from what I could see no error messages were created. What happened was that I would only get one event imported, while I expected the full months events.
So the import works, but not the way I expect it. I would expect it to import ALL events for that month. And that didn't happen.
#5
Can you give me the link that you used for the import?
#6
I am having the same issue but with version 5.x-2.5. The problem seems to be that the downloaded .ics file only contains the first event from whatever calendar month you are viewing when you click the download link. If you open the .ics file with a text editor do you see more than one event?
#7
Considering that there is no 5.x-2.5 version of event: Are you guys sure that you use event.module and not date with calendar.module?
#8
Hi.
I'm very sure I use event. I even updated it today to the latest dev-version (D6).
I used this link https://mysite.com/event/2009/08/01/ical/all/all/31
It's not really mysite.com and I have password protected my calendar so not much for you to see there. I've opened the ical file and it seems like all the data is there. I'll try it with my outlook again and see what happens.
As soon as I can find my windows computer...
#9
Right. Here's some more information.
This is what the ical looks like.
It seems like DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20020203 is the start time for the first event. And this is also the only event that I see in the calendar. The event on the 12:th isn't imported.
Does this help?
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:mysite.com | September 01 2009- October 01 2009
PRODID:-//strange bird labs//Drupal iCal API//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090905T191511Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090907T151100Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20020203
UID:https://www.mysite.com/node/771
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.mysite.com/node/771
SUMMARY:Do something
DESCRIPTION:Lets do something
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090905T191511Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090912T070000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090912T190000Z
UID:https://www.mysite.com/node/779
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.mysite.com/node/779
SUMMARY:Do something else
DESCRIPTION:
Lets do something else.
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
#10
Did I forget to change status or do you need more info?