Posted by Steven_NC on January 9, 2012 at 5:39pm
Many organizations that hold conferences have a list of their sessions and functions which can be selected and then downloaded as an iCal file to be incorporated into the attendees' calendar programs. Is anyone familiar with how this is done? Is anyone working on incorporating this feature into Drupal based sites?
Thanks
Steven
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Here are a couple of ways
The basic thing you'll probably need is the Calendar project. This includes an iCal Feed feature. It will need a couple of other modules like Date and some others. See the docs for the required modules and info on general calendar view setup.
Included in this is an iCal feed view. Cloning this you can set up iCal Feeds with all the nice views proper filters, etc. This will supply an "RSS like" feed of multiple events to users. This get treated as a separate calendar by most tools and will display multiple events.
Often, what you want is not to list multiple events, but just to have a single event with a "add to your calendar" option, e.g. in the "node" display rather than a view. Here's a calendar project issue that talks about doing this.
http://drupal.org/node/742146
A bit more complicated but not too bad.
Hope this helps.