I recently deployed a site for the West Washington Park Neighborhood Assciation in Denver and one of the included features was a calendar built using the Event module. One of the pieces of feedback I got was that the link in the calendar icon wasn't very clear about how to use the link or what it was supposed to do. Users wanted to click on it, but when they did most of them (on MSWindows) got a "protocol not found" error for the "webcal://" protocol.
To solve the "usability" problem of "I don't know how to use the iCalendar feed, I created a screencast that shows how to use the event module icalendar feed in a google calendar.
This videocast is in English without any audio track - just text baloons. It doesn't really show how Drupal works, but shows how the philosophy of using open internet standards can lead to some great combinations of technologies as those protocols are put into use by other software companies. I choose Google calendar as the place to import the calendar feed because it's cross-platform and free - very accessible.
The movie file is ~2MB.
If you are interested in creating videocasts, read up in the handbook and consider joining the Videocasters group on groups.drupal
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Fantastic Screencast
I'll be point some of my users to that.
One question though.
I have set up Google calendar to view my Drupal Event calendar, but it only ever shows 2 months worth of events in advance.
Is that configurable within Drupla/Google calendar?
Regards
Alan
Drupal development and themeing, Galway, Ireland
Thanks for the
Thanks for the feedback.
That's a good question about how far into the future it shows and I'm not really sure I know the answer.
On line 320 of my event.module I see a duration variable_get call that defaults to 30 days into the future but is configurable in the variable table. You may be able to tweak that in your admin/settings/event page - it's a little confusing that the table limit would impact the ical feed and the rss feed, but it makes the administrator's life a little easier having only one setting to edit when you probably want them all to be the same. I haven't tested that - just an idea.
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Yes that works, if you set
Yes that works, if you set the number of days to show in the table to 365 ( in the event module settings ) then you get the whole years calendar from the iCal feed as well.
Great Stuff
That one had me stumped,
All well now
Regards
Alan
Drupal development and themeing, Galway, Ireland