Advice on syncing to Google Calendar

[jkyrlach]

Disclaimer: I know that you have no obligation to help me with this question, but I don’t know any other calendar experts, so I’m turning to you knowledgeable folks. Using some information that I found in some of your other support threads, i was able to extend TEC to be able to export an ical file for something like a year of events. Being the resourceful bloke that i am, I simply added cron job to “curl” that file to a web-accessible location, and voila! — instant ical feed.

This works great from something like iCal on Macs. It does a good job of staying in sync. Google calendar, on the other hand, is very frustrating. It will import the calendar, but nothing short of re-importing the calendar seems to update my events. This is where I could really use some expert advice. What do I need to do to get Google to recheck my feed page? Is there some setting in nginx that i need to change? is there a special “don’t cache me bro” entry i need to make? Is there some magic type of URL i can fashion to keep g-cal on it’s toes? I’m so frustrated that Google offers no real information for understanding what is happening — or in my case — not happening.

Thank you for at least reading my tale of woe.

[Cliff]

Hi. Thanks for your thorough question.

We do not have 2-way sync with Google Calendar.

We can import from (https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/import-events-from-google-calendar/) and export to (https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/exporting-events/), but because it’s not “sync”, setting up both in this way would result in an infinite loop if the exported events were added to the same Google Calendar (not just displayed alongside within the GCal UI).

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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