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Thanks, Geoff. I appreciate your detective work on this issue.
Please do let me know when this makes it through your development cycle. We are using the plugin on a production site so, in the interim, we’ll manually edit the incorrect events.Is there any way to flag an event so that it is not overwritten on import? We are running the iCal import on a daily basis and, obviously, do not wish to edit the same events every day.
Thanks again.
A couple of questions:
1. Does the iCAL importer create any kind of log for the sync tasks?
2. Does it make sense to truly delete all the events from the database and then re-sync to Google to see if the Timezone setting change will impact the import?Other than that, I am thinking I have to find another solution to the calendar issue if we can’t get this to stabilize.
Thanks, Geoff.
A couple of items:
1. I did reset the Use the site wide time-zone everywhere option but I could not see how that was going to affect anything. The data is already in the database and is incorrect. Changing that setting did not change the display nor the incorrect data in the database.
2. I did some basic analysis and reviewed 22 events starting with the ICS file which I opened in Outlook. The net of this was I identified 3 records that did not import at all (for no obvious reason), 3 errors where the import incorrectly assigned dates/times and 16 events that imported correctly. I cannot find any differences between the source ICS events that imported correctly when contrasted to the ones that did not. The errors are not all at a particular time of day, nor are they “odd” times like 17:30 versus 17:00.
I’m at a loss.
I have an excel file containing the 6 errors and the differences in the data between the original organizers’ link, the ICS file from Google and the Event Calendar Event listing. I wasn’t sure how to get that to you or if it was even helpful?
Hi Geoff,
The events are not recurring and have never been edited/deleted. Our use of the plugin is brand new and we just implemented a recurring import.
Terry
The Google calendar should be visible on the site now at http://msdsug.microsoft.com/testing-2/ – my fault, I had it set to private.
The Timezone Mode is set to: Use the local timezones for each event and the checkbox Show timezone is checked.
The calendar entries are maintained by a single user – not me. There are a couple of errors in the data but not for the example I documented. The Google Calendar embed is set to show all times in PST.
