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Hey,

How hard would it be to use CiviCRM with Calendar or Events module to add calendar topic filters and month drop-downs, as appears here:

http://www.caidc.org/cal2/CalendarGet.asp?cal_id=21&assn_id=221
This is a nice calendar, both in appearance and functionality.

What would be involved in this customization?

Most of customisations needed would have to happen on Calendar/Views side, so cannot help you too much. iCal information provided by CiviCRM contains event category field that is used for filtering on the page you've given as an example, so it depends if Drupal calendar handles this information or not. If you would need to extract event types directly from CiviCRM, that shouldn't be very hard as well, you just need to reach to civicrm_option_value db table and get the list of records for proper option group. Specific query would be:
select * from civicrm_option_value where option_group_id = (select id from civicrm_option_group where name like 'event_type');

I saw a post elsewhere about ical difficulties. Does ical actually work?

It does in CiviCRM.

In addition to the drop-down functionality, we want to be able to export the website calendar to Outlook.

That's again calendar module's functionality. However, goals that you're trying to achieve seem like quite neat functionality - if you manage to get them together, please share yo experience with others on this forum.

Thx,
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Is there a way to create a feed with multiple event types?

I've tried the following with no luck:

http://sitename/civicrm/event/ical?page=1&type=15&type11

This just gives me the last type, not both type 15 and 11.

Thanks!