ical export issues

ical export issues

[Stephen Eglen]

Hi everyone,

I routinely export my diary entries to an ics file on the web so that
google calendar can display them.  This normally works well, although it
is well known that the google calendar can take many hours before
updating the calendar.

Has anyone got any neater approaches for keeping their org mode calendar
items in sync with google?  I've looked at org-gcal but I think I'm
missing something (https://github.com/myuhe/org-gcal.el/issues/68) and
there don't seem to be any reliable command line tools for syncing an
.ics file with google that work under OAuth2.

p.s. a small issue, but when I passed the org-generated .ics file
through a validator, http://severinghaus.org/projects/icv/ it noted
that:

  Your calendar is using an invalid newline format. Make sure to use
  \r\n to end lines rather than just \n (RFC 2445 §4.1).

This doesn't seem to prevent google parsing the file though.

Stephen

Re: ical export issues

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Stephen Eglen <sje30@cam.ac.uk> writes:

> p.s. a small issue, but when I passed the org-generated .ics file
> through a validator, http://severinghaus.org/projects/icv/ it noted
> that:
>
>   Your calendar is using an invalid newline format. Make sure to use
>   \r\n to end lines rather than just \n (RFC 2445 §4.1).

Fixed. Thank you.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

Re: ical export issues

[Eric S Fraga]

On Monday, 14 Nov 2016 at 21:50, Stephen Eglen wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I routinely export my diary entries to an ics file on the web so that
> google calendar can display them.  This normally works well, although it
> is well known that the google calendar can take many hours before
> updating the calendar.
>
> Has anyone got any neater approaches for keeping their org mode calendar
> items in sync with google?

I use your approach but also use MobileOrg on Android as a channel to
connect org to Google.  I essentially have my org calendar entries in
two different calendars on Google as a result.  MobileOrg works well and
also "assimilates" any new entries put in directly into the Google
calendar back into my org files.

-- 
: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 26.0.50.1, Org release_8.3.6-1272-gc61ee8

Re: ical export issues

[Stephen Eglen]

> I use your approach but also use MobileOrg on Android as a channel to
> connect org to Google.  I essentially have my org calendar entries in
> two different calendars on Google as a result.  MobileOrg works well and
> also "assimilates" any new entries put in directly into the Google
> calendar back into my org files.

Thank you Eric.  I'm just trying the new MobileOrg, as I prefer its
syncing method, but as yet I don't think it does calendar merging.

Best wishes,

Stephen