Calendar Subscriptions

[Chris M.]

<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I’ve been using Time.ly’s calendar for a year now on a MultiSite install (100+ sites) for our school district. So far, it’s been a somewhat pleasant experience and easy to manage, with the exception that it’s a heavy load on the server and causes the websites to really slow down. So now I’m back on the market looking for something to potentially replace it. There are a few features specifically that time.ly has that are crucial to our needs. I’m unsure if your product has these features.</p>

<p>1) Calendar feeds. We need to be able to pull the feeds from each of the calendars on the sub-sites into a master calendar. In other words, does your calendar actually create a feed for export? This is also something that our patrons use regularly to subscribe in their own calendars to the school events.</p>

<p>2) We also need to be able to import a feed from iCal, Outlook, and Google Calendars. (From what I can tell, your product doesn’t support feeds and the import/export only creates a snapshot of the calendar at the time.)</p>

<p>3) We need something that will work on two separate MultiSite installs. I’m not sure your product would be an option if we have to buy licenses for every site.</p>

<p>4) A common request we’ve gotten is to have a “Go to Today” or simply a “Today” button or link somewhere. I noticed that you had a filter bar on the demo but there’s no simple way to view the current day when you’re looking at a sea of events on the month view.</p>

<p>Other than those questions, from what I can tell you guys have a far superior product, and I hope to be able to use it.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

[Julie Kuehl]

Hi Chris,

 

I don’t think we’re the plugin you are looking for. Events are specific to each calendar and cannot be pulled into a master calendar at the present time. And as you suspected, the calendars import/export and do not acutely sync back and forth. We do work on multisite, but the plugin is intended to be licensed per site. There is a way around this, but it does require additional work as the auto-update feature is not available on every site then. And lastly, we do not have a “Go to today” button, but what a great idea? Would you be willing to add it to our UserVoice page for consideration for a future release? (https://tribe.uservoice.com/forums/195723-feature-ideas)

 

I’m sorry to disappoint, but I want to give you an honest picture of the plugin’s functionality. If we can help you in any other way, please let us know.

 

— Julie

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