Google calendar

[Ian]

How about syncing with Google calendar?

Ian

[Intermesh]

Why do you need Google calendar if you have the GO calendar?

[vincentdivoux]

Why do you need Google calendar if you have the GO calendar?

I got some idea because i could have the same problem. My organisation is an association. I have two kinds of events :
- public events like exhibitions, festivals, etc...
- private events : meetings, due events, ...

For the moment the google calendar is my public calendar because GO don't have (i think so) a public frontend for just have a look in a calendar. Isn't it ?

SO i have to put my public events in two calendars (and so i have mistakes and errors) : one time in my google calendar and one time in my GO calendar (these which the workers of my organisation are using)

[Intermesh]

Ok then I would rather focus on the public calendar feature in GO. I'll write it down.

[dragnovich]

Yes I also do the same problem, but i do it TREE Times , I work and mannage a comunity club, so I have my Outlook at my work station (for work, personal and club calendars), I have my GO for when Im off the officem, and for personal and club use, and I have Other calendar In Gogle (actually for the club members).

From Outlook I can see the Google calendar that is public (not edit it) via an url like http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/... ... lendar.ics , so if we can have a public calendar in GO like http://mygosite/public/user/sharedcalendar1.ics, I will just use the GO to manage the calendars and read them from Outlook, and get rid of the google one.

That sould be perfect for Files and proyects too. I will post it in a new post

Regards!!

[ZHGO]

Has this issue been worked on or addressed lately?

We have the same problem, we all use google calendar for our personal private calendars, etc and think it would be a very important feature to able to synchronize the GO calendar with our google calendars, even if we do use our GO calendars!

Greetings,
ZHGO

[srich]

Any word on this feature?

I am having to maintain my Google Calendars as well as my GO (work) calendar. It would be great if I could subscribe to my Google Calendars in GroupOffice and manage all calendars from a central place.

[rasobar]

Mirroring all calendars through Google and using Outlook for reading them is not the solution to users who do not (want to) use Outlook.

I has suggested in a similar post http://www.group-office.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5278#p25718 that it would be sufficient to import the Google ics file in a cron job, so we could at least read Google Calendars through the GroupOffice interface. The "import" button is already there, so it shouldn't be much effort to add a "repeat hourly" option.

[rasobar]

I order to export GroupOffice calendars to Google calendars, you need to adapt /usr/share/groupoffice/robots.txt to:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

The Google calendar then looks like this: http://ethify.org/content/calendar

Unfortunately, after each GroupOffice update, it is overwritten.

Feature request 1 (allow to export to Google cal): do not overwrite robots.txt
Feature request 2 (allow to import from Google cal): offer hourly import of ics file

[rasobar]

Update: Google seems to have changed their robots policies, the synchronisation stopped in mid 2012. Thus we removed the Google calendar and only offer an ics link. Will try to integrate a Drupal Module that lists imported ics calendar events.