Google Calendar Sync

[Anonymous]

I have some customers that would like to add all the events to there google calendar. I understand that the google canlendar does not update imediatly.

I have added the following to a page:

<a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www.google.com/calendar/render%3Fcid%3D[events_ical_link justurl=true]" target=_blank>Google Calendar</a>

but when they click on the link and accept it into there calendar it shows (No Title) and the information from the event is not there.

I am also trying to figure out the timezone issue.

Anybody have any suggestions

[Franky]

This is explained in the faq “How to add a “Add to Google Calendar” link to an event”. See

http://www.e-dynamics.be/wordpress/?page_id=195

[Anonymous]

Am I missing something, I don’t see away to add the entire calendar into a google calendar.

I think the example I gave was pushing the Ical to google. I would like to do that so that google calendar would subscribe to my events calendar. This way my calendar that I use all the time would always show the events and I would not have to go to the events calendar.

[Anonymous]

I think I may have found a solution but when I import it there is no event name. How do I control what is in the Ical file?

[Anonymous]

and is there a way to grab past events in the Ical file?

[Franky]

I don’t see any practical use in past events in the ICAL file, but anyway, this will be in the next version:

shortcode [events_ical_link] now has 3 extra options: scope, author and contact_person

You can’t change anything generated for an ICAL file (it is a strict format after all), except for the way the title and event description is shown, by using the settings “Single event page title format” and “Default single event format”.

[Anonymous]

Franky already helped me out with this and I posted my solution at http://www.e-dynamics.be/bbpress/topic.php?id=1865

Personally I have no problem leaving it that way.

(I should add that I’m still on an old release.)

[Anonymous]

Thank you,

I just need to figure out how to get the timezone figured out. It appears to be sending it or google is receiving it without the current timezone, I am at -7 so everything in the google calendar is off by 7 hours.

[Franky]

@beventsmadeeasy: those code changes shouldn’t be needed any more 🙂

@Paul: I removed the timezone from the ICAL in the past, but I shouldn’t have … added here:

http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/687228

[Anonymous]

Paul – did you manage to get this working?

I’m trying to sync all events to Google Calendar and if possible, all events from an individual category.

Thanks in advance,

Tom

[Anonymous]

I’m using [events_ical_link] on my page, which gives me the following URL: http://plainandsimple.tv/?eme_ical=public&scope=future

When I first tried to import this to a new Google Calendar it threw an error which I have forgotten now, but it’s not happening on further attempts.

I tried downloading the ICS file generated by EME using the link which appears to be correct gives a series of events formatted like this:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR

METHOD:PUBLISH

VERSION:2.0

PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN

BEGIN:VEVENT

DTSTAMP:20131120T054647Z

DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20131119T190000

DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20131120T020000

UID:20131119T190000-20131120T020000-3760@plainandsimple.tv

SUMMARY:Resident Deepozz at Cargo | 19th November

DESCRIPTION:Resident Deepozz at Cargo | 19th November You are here: Event Listings / CargoTuesday’s resident Deepozz is on hand to shake off those Tuesday terrors. So why not come down to the arches, relax on the terrace and enjoy some fine food & fine tunes! Free entry *Cargo imposes a strict door policy with ID scanner, please have a photo ID with you to avoid difficulties upon entrance. Strictly over 18’s only.n Resident Deepozz Cargo – London – 19/11/2013 19:00-02:00 DJ Line Up: FREE ^^ Click to Edit ^^nSave Event to CalendarICAL | GooglenMore Events at Cargo Resident Deepozz – 19 Nov 2013Resident DJ Jamie Castle – 20 Nov 2013Circus 83 – 22 Nov 2013CLUB: Switched w/ Montana Cruz & Louise Goodson – 22 Nov 2013Circus 83 – 22 Nov 2013Comedy @ Cargo – 24 Nov 2013CLUB: Switched – 24 Nov 2013Grace Petrie's Big London Gig & Album Launch: Love is my Rebellion – 25 Nov 2013Eat Your Own Ears – 27 Nov 2013Brooklyners (by way of Florida) Crystal Stilts Live in London! – 28 Nov 2013Circus 83 – 29 Nov 2013Circus 83 – 29 Nov 2013DAY: MADE All Dayer – 30 Nov 2013SWITCHED – 30 Nov 2013CLUB: Switched – 1 Dec 2013Jemp Festival Presents…Innercity Ensemble and Hati – 1 Dec 2013LIVE: Petulant Penguin Presents…Autoheart – 6 Dec 2013Circus 83 – 6 Dec 2013CLUB: Switched – 8 Dec 2013Circus 83 – 13 Dec 2013CLUB: Switched – 15 Dec 2013MANDiNKA presents CLOSE UP with SKY MONTIQUE III – 15 Dec 2013Circus 83 – 20 Dec 2013CLUB: Switched – 22 Dec 2013Circus 83 – 27 Dec 2013CLUB: Switched – 29 Dec 2013Circus 83 – 3 Jan 2014CLUB: Switched – 5 Jan 2014Circus 83 – 10 Jan 2014CLUB: Switched – 12 Jan 2014Circus 83 – 17 Jan 2014CLUB: Switched – 19 Jan 2014Circus 83 – 24 Jan 2014CLUB: Switched – 26 Jan 2014Circus 83 – 31 Jan 2014CLUB: Switched – 2 Feb 2014Circus 83 – 7 Feb 2014CLUB: Switched – 9 Feb 2014Circus 83 – 14 Feb 2014CLUB: Switched – 16 Feb 2014Circus 83 – 21 Feb 2014CLUB: Switched – 23 Feb 2014Circus 83 – 28 Feb 2014Circus 83 – 7 Mar 2014nGet Directions to Cargo How to get to Cargo nnnComments Event Listings > Cargo

URL:http://plainandsimple.tv/event/3760/resident-deepozz/

ATTACH:http://plainandsimple.tv/event/3760/resident-deepozz/

LOCATION:Cargo, 83 Rivington Street, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3AY, London

END:VEVENT

The issue is that no events are appearing in my google calendar.

Does it take time to crawl and add?

[Franky]

Google for “google calendar ical feed not updating” gives you:

http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/46297/google-calendar-not-showing-updated-entries-from-ical-url

[Anonymous]

Thanks – so I guess that means just wait a day or so and see what happens?

[Franky]

Probably 🙂

[Anonymous]

I found that this wasn’t working in Lotus Notes other (tested it on my work machine).

Tried a validator and there’s an empty single line which could be causing the problem?

Sorry, your calendar could not be parsed.

Error: Error was: Error at line 1: Expected [-3], read [10]

Cause:

http://severinghaus.org/projects/icv/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplainandsimple.tv%2F%3Feme_ical%3Dpublic%26category%3D34%26scope%3Dfuture

Any idea?

[Franky]

Hmmm … that’s not good …. let me check this out

[Franky]

Well, I tried with a calendar here and it works just fine:

http://severinghaus.org/projects/icv/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.e-dynamics.be%2Fwordpress%2F%3Feme_ical%3Dpublic_single%26event_id%3D4

Could it be your theme adding a line?

Edit: yes, it seems so: it seems that your theme starts with an empty line, the sourcecode of the homepage at http://plainandsimple.tv/ proves it. A bit weird that the theme is still used basically …

[Anonymous]

Yup! It was an extra line after the ?> tag in a plugin!

Sorry I didn’t spot it

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