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We're running Calendar 5.x-1.7 under Drupal 5.7 with CiviCRM 2.0 Beta on the 2.0 demo (http://demo.civicrm.org) - and the iCal feed for CiviEvent seems to be working without errors - although the timezone problem is apparent (7:00am event start time shows as 14:00)

http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/calendar/2008/5/all

... it would be most helpful if you could do some further digging / debugging to see aspect of the ICS data is causing the error prior to final 2.0 - so if it's something on our side we can fix it.

Sorry - I was not referring to the Calendar 5.x-1.7 but the new rewrite Calendar 5.x-2.dev (http://drupal.org/node/92594/release)  that is underway (soon to be released.)  NOTE this relies on the new Date module in dev also.

They have completely re-written the Ical parser.  It works fine with Google and 2 other Ical services but does not work with Civi 1.9.  I thought it could be a permission issue with event registration rights, but I can read the civi Ical directly from the web address  (I couldn't verify the ACL on the sandbox 2.0 because I don't have permission.) so I have ruled that out.

I already noted the issue in the module Issue (but I doubt they can test with civi.) This is not a timezone issue, however it was because of the timezone issue that I tried this module.  Apparently the 2.dev version will fix the timezone issue.

They have completely re-written the Ical parser.  It works fine with Google and 2 other Ical services but does not work with Civi 1.9.

Could you paste the values of DTSTART: and DTEND: from feeds that worked fine with you, it should provide a valuable clue.

Thx,
m

Hi, just adding a voice & my test environment to this thread. 

I also have the dev version of Calendar 2.0 running and unable to get the iCal from CiviCRM.  However other ical feeds are processing correctly.

Thanks - I think there is an issue in calendar reading the VEVENT information.  Looking at my ical file from Civi, it would be hard to know what structure to really change.  I added a little note to this thread and the module maintainer Karen is very active.  More details are over on that side:  http://drupal.org/node/217898#comment-736064 

I would think this is an issue in Calendar's ical handling rather than something specific to the CiviCRM output.  On further experiements - I added in this from national holiday calendar:
http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/usa__en%40holiday.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics    It seemed to work, but the only holiday that appears on the calendar is Easter, the file contains much more VEVENT info than that.

I'd think this is a really popular calendaring solution for CiviCRM Users - since it integrates nicely into Drupal, and drives right to specific event pages.

So instead of this:
DTSTART:20080224T010000Z

...this:
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080224T010000Z

To be specific, please try the following: DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080224T010000Z

Thx,
m

The demo permissions are set to allow anonymous access to the ical feeds. You can verify this by accessing those pages from your browser when you're NOT logged in to Drupal.

What specifically are you seeing in Google Calendar (you say it "doesn't work). Can you post the setup steps you're doing and the error or problem you get.