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I am using Drupal 5.x and CiviCRM.  I'm creating events using CiviEvent.  I have no problem displaying the public events on a Drupal calendar using the iCal feed exposed by CiviEvent.  However, is it possible to display non-public events on the calendar? I can list them in a block but I'd like them in a calendar view.  Can you possibly add a few parameters to the iCal URL to make non-public events appear?  Or via another way?  I just read about the Drupal CiviNode module and might give that a try.

Specifically, what I need to do is make non-public events display on the calendar if the logged in user is a member of a specific role, such as 'staff'.  Most users and anonymous guests would see the public events.   Members of the 'staff' role would additionally see things like staff meetings, report due dates, and other internal events. 

- John

Thanks for the quick response and the information.  I can do a little PHP and might experiment with the code you highlighted.  Do these functions have access to the Drupal global variables, such as userid and the like?  If so, maybe I can pass userid or actual role name into the CiviEvent code.  That is, as you suggest, only of the iCal feed is executed every time the page is accessed, which I doubt as well.  If caching is involved, then modifying the iCal feed may not be the way to go, but rather create code that exposes the civievents directly as drupal nodes so that Views has access to them. Worst case scenario is I create a staff-only block/page of events listed in table format.

Thanks again for your help.

- John

Dave,

  the given instruction works only with drupal 5. can you tell me how can i import civievent ical feed to drupal calendar.

my server configures with
drupal 6.6
civicrm 2.1

Do I have this straight?: a civievent ical feed cannot be used to import a civievent event into the drupal calendar?

It's not just that i can't figure it out or find instructions?  (for Drupal 6.6 & CiviCRM 2.1.1)

 

Lobo (& others)

Take a look over at http://drupal.org/node/215979?mode=2&sort=2. It looks like the solution to bringing ical event feeds into Calendar2.0 and Date2.0 in Drupal 6 is to create a custom event content type for that feed (possibly for each calendar feed), parse the feed into the event using feed api module and feed element mapper module and then include that content type in the view that populates calendar.

It looks like there is still some issues to be closed off in how feed element mapper actually parses ical feeds and (imho) it might be worth testing what they are producing with a civievent feed to make sure that all civievent fields can be mapped properly (I don't think there should be a problem but...).

Unfortunately I'm not in a position to patch the feed element mapper module on my dev environment at the moment so I can't test (yet).

Just so anyone doesn't waste time trying to create a copy of the calendar view and use the exposed CiviEvent elements as the source rather than the node type that is default in calendar, I've tried it and you can't change the view type.

@lobo - I suspect they are close to a fix. There's been a lot of activity in the past few days. Once there is a baselined dev version in HEAD I'll test it (unless someone else beats me to it). Unfortunately I can't apply patches on the hosting service I have, and things are a bit confusing as regards which patches to use with what at the moment.

I really need this for a project I'm working on (everything else between Drupal and Civi had synched up to meet 95% of the requirements at this stage... and then this... aaarrrrgh).