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Have you been frustrated by bugs in the ical feed generated by the Calendar module? I have! I have been working on patches to improve the situation. You can help by reviewing and testing them.

For D6, see this issue for the Calendar module and this one for the Date module.

For D7, see this issue for the Calendar module.

P.S. Will the Boston group have a meetup in October? The first Tuesday is less than a week away.

I am writing a module to create a custom iCal feed from a non-calendar content type. The calendar iCal feed view only attaches to calendar views. To simplify the process, I plan to use existing Calendar and Date functions to format my custom iCal feed, for example function template_preprocess_calendar_view_ical(&$vars). However, I don't have a good enough understanding of theme functions to know how to format $vars for the above function or even how to render content through the calendar_ical module theme.

Here is our athletics schedules page: http://www.catlin.edu/athletics/schedules

I'm a big user of iCal feed parsing in D6 using FeedAPI to consume Google Calendars for display in Calendar views. The idea being that the canonical source of calendaring data is sourced outside of Drupal in whatever Calendaring app the user naturally uses. In D7, there is no real progress on an iCal Feed Parser for Feeds, the successor to FeedAPI. I'm a little surprised that such a functional need hasn't been addressed yet over six months after D7's release. I wonder: is there an obvious workaround or alternate venue for this functionality in D7 that I'm not aware of?

Greetings from Moldova! I would like to check with you the following idea for a module: download an event as an iCal file.

It was motivated by a need to attach a calendar event to the messages sent by the Signup module. A history of this can be read here. Also there you can find the actual module. It's already written, since at that time there seemed not to be an existing solution. I would like to put it on drupal.org.

So what do you think?

Vitalie

Hi there,

Got my Views Calendar (latest release for D6) working nicely http://ds4s.org/calendar-date

However when I click the ical export I always get an empty result set:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME: Calendar | ds4s.org
PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN
END:VCALENDAR

Anyone got any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

I know I keep bringing up related issues, but it seems that the iCal feed does not work in Google Calendar or Hotmail. I parsed it at the iCalendar Validator http://severinghaus.org/projects/icv/ and it comes up with:

Sorry, your calendar could not be parsed.
Error: Error was: Error at line 9: Cannot set timezone for UTC properties
Cause: Caused by: Cannot set timezone for UTC properties
Context for line 9:
6: BEGIN:VEVENT
7: UID:calendar:43930:field_start7:0:0
8: SUMMARY:DrupalNYC Meetup -- Feb.10th
9: DTSTAMP;TZID=UTC;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100204T143001

I am looking with someone experienced with importing iCal feeds to meet with. I just want someone to look over what I've done and see if there is a blatant error I've caused. I am getting most of the data imported, just not "to date". And the attempt to import the data seems to hang up cron.

I live in the Cary/Apex area, would be willing to travel to Morrisville or Raleigh though. Meet me at a Caribou (free wifi) and I'll purchase you a large coffee of your choice!

So, I don't even know where to begin.

I am importing iCal feeds (Google Calendar specifically) using FeedAPI, Calendar, iCal parser, Date, etc, etc. I had some crazy issues that are mostly resolved now. But my one hangup I cannot remedy.

Cron will not stop running. In other words, I cannot run cron because it won't stop. If I try to run it manually I get the "Cron run Failed" or something like that.

I have done everything with deleting the cron variables, emptying cache, sacrificing small animals, hung a horseshoe over my pc, all to no avail.

I've created a Yahoo Pipes feed which takes the site-wide iCal feed and filters out all events which aren't in the America/Toronto time zone. This way it's easy to see only the local events in your calendar. Right now there's only one event... but hopefully that will change soon :)

iCal feed and Pipes link.

Enjoy!

Has anyone noticed that the ical feed for this group is always empty?