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on civicrm and joomla calendar

there are some prior posts on this

Also might want to consider contributing / sponsoring a developer to help fix the deal breaker and improve the code base

lobo

Thank you for your replies.  We attempted to use GCalendar to pull the iCal feed that CiviEvents produces.  However, we quickly realized that CiviEvents is now the weak point.  Basically, we need users to register people and cars, then link those to an event that is ala-cart (multiple activities, each having it's own price).

We are kind of confused that the majority of CiviCRM is so flexible/configurable, yet CiviEvents is so restrictive.  Hopefully this is helpful as constructive critisism.

Civi publishes an iCal feed for events, which is the best opportunity for integrating with another extension.
for example, i've used jcal pro -- which will consume an ical feed -- to publish visual calendar displays. jevents, zap calendar, and others provide similar ical support. the notable weakness is that i don't believe any of them have a way to easily keep the calendar synchronized -- you must trigger the update from the ical feed manually.

but they are definitely viable options. you don't need to recreate your events in the calendar -- just trigger an update periodically using the ical feed and the calendar will display your latest civi events.