[Erica]

So, the webcal thing does work, but only for the time period specified, as far as I can tell. So I can give my members a webcal link for the next year (let’s say the calendar year 2017 just for discussion’s sake), and within that year, their personal calendar will automatically update with events as they are added.

The problem is that events in 2018, or beyond, will not be automatically added. They will need to go back to the site and re-subscribe to the next year’s events. If I’m missing something here, please let me know, but testing indicates this is how it works.

This is not the solution we are looking for. We are looking for a true calendar subscription, which the user adds ONCE to their calendar, and then never has to touch again.

[Erica]

Hi Josh,

Unfortunately, that does not fix the problem. Our members are constantly adding new events to the calendar, throughout the year — it’s a community calendar, and people are always organizing new events. We could allow members to import a year in advance, five years in advance, it doesn’t matter, since during that next year we’ll get maybe 100 new events added to the calendar. Our members want these new events automatically added to their own personal calendars, without having to constantly check our website. This is how Google calendar subscriptions work, and how iCal subscriptions work, on many, many sites.

I’ve seen in the support threads I mentioned (on tribe.uservoice.com) that this issue is clearly on your radar, and has been for years — when can we expect it to be added to the plugin?

Thanks,
Erica

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