A Simple Guide for moving from the Event Module to the Calendar Module

There has been lots of talk about this on the Event Module issue queue as well as the Event_View and Event Repeat issue queue

The Event Module appears to have stop being maintained and so it may be sensible to look towards moving to the Calendar module instead.

Here is a simple solution for moving your events from the Event Module to the Calendar Module. This proccess involves two major steps.

1) Setting up a url for an Ical feed from the Event Module that will export all your events

2) Importing the ICal feed using FeedApi, FeedApi Mapper and iCal parser to new/or same content types with event times now being stored in CCK Date Fields.

Step 1 - Export

An Ical feed of all your Events can be created using the URL

http://www.example.com/event/YYYY/MM/DD/ical/all/all/DURATION

Where YYYY/MM/DD is the beginning date

and DURATION is the number of days after the beginning date to include

e.g. http://www.example.com/event/2009/07/09/ical/all/all/100/ will provide an Ical feed for events starting on 9th July 2009 and including next 100 days

You can check if all the events you want are included at the URL below (same format as above)

http://www.example.com/event/YYYY/MM/DD/list/all/all/DURATION

Step 2 - Import

Once you are satisfied with the URL for your Ical feed you can now import this Feed to CCK Date fields following the instructions at http://drupal.org/node/341716

If you have no need for FeedApi anymore you can then uninstall it afterwards

This solution will only allow you to move the title, description and date information of your events however, if there are any extra fields they will not be moved over

There are also other solutions kicking around the events issue queue which will allow you to keep other data as well, one such example can be found at the link below...

http://pingv.com/blog/alasda/2008/drupal-upgrade-tip-converting-event-mo...