iCal Feed and Outlook 365 Calendar – Government Intranet

[Vanessa]

Hi tech support,

I’m redesigning my company’s intranet and I’m hoping the events calendar will meet the needs of my organization. I need a calendar that will sync/link to each of our employees Outlook calendar. I’m interested in exporting the Events Calendar to the employees Outlook Calendar and vice versa, exporting the Outlook Calendar to the Events Calendar. Is this possible?

So far I’ve seen samples of syncing ics files to the Outlook calendar, but if edits/changes are made in the future for meetings will the new changes automatically reflect in both calendars?

[Geoff]

Hi Vanessa,

Interesting questions!I’m so glad you’re checking The Events Calendar and I hope it’s a good fit for this project.

I’m afraid that back-and-forth syncing is something the calendar doesn’t support very well. We do have an add-on called iCal Importer and that will fetch new (and updated) data from a hosted .ics file/feed and import those events into The Events Calendar on a scheduled basis. That part is perfect.

What’s not perfect is the communication from The Events Calendar to the outside source. In other words, iCal Importer will add a valid iCal feed to The Events Calendar that can be used by outside applications, but it is up to those outside applications to fetch the data on their own and decide whether or not the information is new or updated.

That said, I’m not sure this is the silver bullet you are looking for, but it is theoretically possible depending on the functionality of the applications pulling data from The Events Calendar.

Does this help answer your questions? Please let me know. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

 

[Geoff]

Hey Vanessa, I see my last reply was marked as the correct answer. I’ll go ahead and close this thread but please feel free to let us know if any other questions pop up and we’d be happy to help. 🙂

Cheers and have a great day!
Geoff

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