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I would like to populate a drupal calendar with numerous CiviEvents, so that it all events will be intigrated and displayed on a page viewable to the general public, i.e. a primary or secondary page.

CIVICRM has a short turtorial on "Using a Drupal Calendar with CiviEvent.
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC32/Using+Drupal+Calendar+with+CiviEvent


Option 2. Integrate CiviEvents iCal feed with Drupal Calendar
 Use this Option If

you want the calendar to include both CiviEvents and other Drupal event-related nodes
you want all CiviEvents to become Drupal nodes
you want more control over the calendar items
This option requires the following:

Drupal 6.x
Views 2
Date & Calendar module versions with a release date later than JUNE 8th, 2009
CCK 6.x-2.x
CiviCRM 2.2 (2.1 will likely also work but I have not tested it)
FeedAPI, FeedAPI mapper
iCal parser
CCK Link (optional)
 
Question:  What date, Calendar, iCal module versions are the most recent and easily intigrated with both civi and drupal?

Question:  Will the end result be an intigrated calendar with numerous events displayed, possibly multipule events at the same time, for example, 10 classes on January 10th at 2:00 (click on link to see class detail)? 

Question: Is this the best way to accomplish what I am trying to do?

Thank you in advanced.  I am new to both applications and pulling my hair out.

I just did a new install of drupal and civicrm.  Sorry for the delay.  

I believe I am getting tied up with step 2 & 3.  I'm new to it all and the directions are making certain assumptions and I am getting lost.

2. Decide what content type will be used for nodes imported from your iCal feed. It can be a separate content type for each feed, or they can be combined into other content types. Make sure the content type you select has a date field that can be used for the iCal date, plus fields for any other iCal information that will be imported. If you would like to include the link to register in this node, you will also want to have CCK Link module enabled and installed, and your content type should include a field for this.

3. Decide if you are going to use the 'Feed' content type or create a new one to be the container for your CiviEvent feed. If you create a new one: Create a new content type for iCal feeds. Make sure that "Refresh feed on creation" is unchecked. Under "FeedAPI", check that this is a content type for downloading feeds to your site. Scroll down and under "Parser Common iCal Syndication", check that you want to enable the ical parser for this feed. Under "FeedAPI Node", check the box to enable the feedapi_node processor on this feed and make sure the content type from Step 2 is selected.


ANy idea where to find a turtorial with screen shots?  I'm lost from the start

Ill check it out and post again tomorrow.

Hi Lance,

Just to respond to your PM here, it sounds like you're getting stuck on CCK (Content Construction Kit) which is specific to Drupal and not a CiviCRM thing.  Do you know much about CCK and Drupal?  Content in Drupal is represented by nodes, and CCK allows you to create new types of nodes (content types) that extend the base nodes... and for this purpose you need a content type with a date field so you have somewhere to save the date from the iCal feed.

Does that makes sense?

Malks.

FeedAPI and FeedMapper have been deprecated by Feeds, so they're a bit harder to find.  I hadn't used them before trying to set up this calendar so I don't have much input for you.  I'm not sure what I knew because of Drupal background that might be obscure to someone newer to Drupal, so if something is not clear then just ask.  Once you get past CCK though I think it will be easier for you.

Malks.