Need help. How can I add civievent into drupal calendar in drupal 6 and civicrm2

[fyhllj]

Need help. How can I add civievent into drupal calendar in drupal 6 and civicrm2.1?

I can do it on drupal5 anc civicrm1.9.

Thanks a lot!

[Donald Lobo]

You'll have to help lead the way here and figure out how to get drupal calendar to accept an iCal (or rss) feed.

I dont think anyone has gotten that working as yet

lobo

[joemaine]

Views with CiviEvent may be your best long term solution.

You might want to spend some time investigating the event, date and calendar modules in Drupal - I think they're still in RC mode. Views with CiviEvent is looking stronger and better than other options, plus having the ability to modify the ical feed in a template seems to make everything work - though we're still testing.

[Ed Ropple]

Views with CiviEvent may be your best long term solution.

Apologies for bumping an old topic, but it seemed smarter than starting a new one.

The problem with Views 2 and CiviEvent is that CiviEvent does not actually expose its dates in a way Drupal understands. The Calendar module expects a Date argument, but CiviEvent exposes its dates as...well, something, but it's sure not a Drupal-format date. It seems that proper Views integration with Calendar will come from adding a dependency to the Date package and exposing start/end dates, etc. as Drupal-format dates.

[Eileen]

Hi,

I've been playing with this & seem to be winning but need to have some more time before I'll be sure. Definitely following the publish to event which is then published to ics feed and then published to calendar route

[Donald Lobo]

It seems that proper Views integration with Calendar will come from adding a dependency to the Date package and exposing start/end dates, etc. as Drupal-format dates.

Would be good to get a patch that does it. Since the views2 module is already a drupal dependency adding a date dependency to the views2 integration is not a biggie

lobo

[Ed Ropple]

Been looking at the Views integration with CiviEvent. Looks like the problem is not in CiviEvent; Calendar is by default strictly node-based. Might want to have someone get on this patch for Calendar to get the ball rolling--

http://drupal.org/node/385886

[Eileen]

This is the write-up on getting the feed from civi into a calendar. Works OK but a bit of mucking around to patch up the feedmapper module.

Make sure you set the permissions when you install it - will add more notes later

http://drupal.org/node/341716

[Ed Ropple]

This is the write-up on getting the feed from civi into a calendar. Works OK but a bit of mucking around to patch up the feedmapper module.

Make sure you set the permissions when you install it - will add more notes later

http://drupal.org/node/341716

That's not a good method for doing it, however. You should not have to hack around it with something like feedapi. Hence why I suggested that people subscribe to that issue and demonstrate a demand for it.

[Eileen]

OK,

WRT the drupal issue you posted

Do I correctly understand that they are trying to integrate user-based and comment-based fields but that their efforts don't extend to civiCRM fields as yet?

I have gone as far as I can for now with the event feeds. It does successfully add items to the calendar based on the ICS feed (I haven't worked through refreshing issues to see if it's all good) BUT in the case I'm working on the ICS feed is not available to anonymous users and I can't see how to pass through a username & password) so my dreams of making it work without having to get into the code seem to be crushed.

In which case I'm thinking maybe I should change tack & join you in the direction you are working on. One concern I have (both ways) is that the group I am working for has particular interest in OG_calendar which is based on the event module and appears to me to be less integrated as it's start / end fields don't seem to be exposed through views. Do you have any knowledge in this area?

Eileen

[Eileen]

Actually it looks like we'd need to add something like this

   $data['civicrm_event']['date_argument'] = array(
     'group' => t('Date'),
     'title' => t('Date'),
     'help' => t('Filter any Views date field by a date argument'),
     'argument' => array(
       'handler' => 'date_api_argument_handler',
       'empty name field' => t('Undated'),
     ),
   );

into here civicrm.views.inc

plus install development patches
http://drupal.org/node/385880
and
http://drupal.org/node/385886

[Eileen]

But of course just doing that didn't work

[Eileen]

The new version of calendar has the non-node date field handling required to get civiEvent dates into the calendar. Note I haven't tested yet & there might be some patching required on the civi side

http://drupal.org/node/413444

[jalama]

As promised I am working on a patch for DATE API/CivicRM event implmentation.  I have made some progress.  Though, there is a fundamental issue with the way Date API allows for custom modules to implement data fields, I have proposed a change here

http://drupal.org/node/385880#comment-1545416

[emilyf]

for others reading this post, docs are now here: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Using+Drupal+Calendar+with+CiviEvent