Support for google calendar?

[gedalia]

Hey Llyod,
Any plans to provide a feed that google calendar could subscribe to? Any thoughts on gcalendar package?
-gedalia

[daltonlp]

Yep, plenty of thoughts about that

Hopefully it'll get done sometime. No ETA, but probably before the end of this year.

- Lloyd

[dbindner]

Someone posted that they'd like Plans to generate a feed that Google calendar could read. I'd actually like the opposite. I'd like the ical import to be tightened up so I can import a Google calendar.

The way I look at it is Plans provides something obvious but missing from Google calendar. Anyone with a web browser can view calendars, no need to sign up. Maybe I want to keep some kind of personal calendar in Google. I could export it to my public plans calendar via the url and "show busy times only." Perfect synergy.

[daltonlp]

I agree - google calendar import is just as important (maybe more) than export.

When you try to use a google calendar iCal url in Plans, what errors do you get?

- Lloyd

[dbindner]

I get:

[daltonlp]

What's the URL of the google calendar?

- Lloyd

[dbindner]

http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/don.bindner@gmail.com/public/basic.ics

[daltonlp]

Thanks for the test URL. The just-released version 7.7 fixes the "Month '-1' out of range" error (Plans wasn't handling the "DURATION" vCalendar field).

Give it a try, let me know how it looks. There's still an issue with linking to the google calendar (events when clicked on still pop up a window without much content). I'll work on improving this.

- Lloyd

[dbindner]

Yes, that works much better now. I did notice that one event that was created as a MWF event doesn't import correctly. Only the first meeting time shows up. I suppose that's because Plans doesn't support those kinds of event recurrences in general.