Events Calendar Subscription/Synchronization

[Lamont]

I’ve been looking into the various export/synchronization posts on the forums but I haven’t found a solution that fits my issue yet.

What I am looking for is a way to sync the event calendar to a calendar that a visitor could then sync to. this differs from exporting the calendar in the sense that if I export and import the events calendar tom my personal and another event is added this new event will not be on my calendar.

Is there a setup/configuration that will allow this?

[Barry]

Hi Lamont,

A lot really depends on what you and your customers will be using for your local calendars.

Many support ongoing synchronization via iCal (in essence, they regularly re-scan to see if new events were added) and that being the case, they can simply use the iCal URL provided by The Events Calendar.

However, there is of course no way to force people to do this. Does that make sense/answer your question?

[Lamont]

What I would like is for users to do is to import the events calendar (via they iCal link) to they’re calendar. When I did this, adding the calendar to my Google Calendar I couldn’t even get events in the previous (March) or next month (May) to be displayed. So to me it seemed like the export was a one time instance instead of subscribing to the feed.I would like to have users subscribe to the iCal feed and then when I push events to it it will automatically display on their calendar.

Assume that I will be telling the users how to set this up.

[Barry]

When I did this, adding the calendar to my Google Calendar I couldn’t even get events in the previous (March) or next month (May) to be displayed.

The iCal feed generated by The Events Calendar by default only includes current and upcoming events – not past events. It’s also limited in terms of how many events it contains (deliberately so, just as the regular events list is limited, to avoid database-breaking queries).

That might explain the range of events you were able to access via Google Calendar.

I would like to have users subscribe to the iCal feed and then when I push events to it it will automatically display on their calendar.

Many calendar apps – Google Calendar amongst them, I believe – can effectively do this by periodically checking the feed and pulling in any fresh event data.

How frequently may be configurable depending on the app (and, perhaps, some apps won’t allow this at all and one-time imports are all you’ll be able to do). Really, the best thing to do is check the instructions for the app in question and see what they allow.

I hope that gives you some avenues to explore 🙂

[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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