iCal Subscription Support

[mhoefer]

I can not seem to find a clear answer regarding support for iCal subscription format vs a manual import of events.

My client would like to be able to have users subscribe to their events via google calendar/apple calendar/outlook etc. The events should then show up automatically in the calendar of subscribers. We have been successful at allowing the import of events, but if a new event is added it is not automatically added to subscribers calendar.

Is this functionality supported by EC/ECP?

It would seem that this functionally would be important to pub/sub/hub infrastructure and allow EC/ECP to be a leader in community calendaring.

Thanks in advance!
Mike

P.S. How about a section in https://theeventscalendar.com/the-events-calendar-for-wordpress-tutorials/ on RSS/ICal etc?

[Barry]

Hi Mike,

I’m not in fact a user of iCal (and can certainly rope in a team member experienced with that app if needs be) but a question that immediately comes to mind is, are you finding that supplying the iCal feed URL – the iCal import link from the upcoming events page, for instance – as the subscription URL doesn’t work?

http://d.pr/i/iI09

If it does not are there any particular error messages being returned here?

[mhoefer]

Although I’m a bit Apple Fan Boy that they named an application after a calendaring standard sure confuses things!
I guess what i am really looking for is .ics support
If I use that link/URL and try to subscribe via google calendar I get
“The address that you provided did not contain a calendar in a valid iCal or GData format.”
http://grab.hoeferweb.com/pBdM
Any tips?
Thanks Mike

[Barry]

OK, so basically (as you can probably tell from the nomenclature used in the iCal import buttons) we’ve currently got things set up to import a specific event or batch of events.

This would definitely be a worthy feature request though, if you’re game to make one:

https://tribe.uservoice.com/forums/195723-feature-ideas

The great advantage to UserVoice is that other users can find the suggestion and add their support – and though that’s far from the only factor in us taking up a suggestion it can provide us with a useful metric.

Thanks!

[mhoefer]

Thanks Barry Loos like there is some support for this idea already!
https://tribe.uservoice.com/forums/195723-feature-ideas/suggestions/3777092-enable-calendar-synchronisation

[Barry]

Great – well do feel free to add your voice there (if you haven’t already) as that can lend weight and assist us when we prioritize feature requests.

Thanks again – and since I think we’re all good here I’ll go ahead and close this thread.

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