Hi hofer,
How do you envision such a feature working? I ask because you can already export your bookings to CSV. And Google Calendar accepts CSV files for import. So the only thing currently necessary to import into Google Calendar is to just modify the formatting of the CSV (e.g. update the column names/headers and perhaps separate the date into separate columns for the day and time).
Is that perhaps all you’re imagining, just an extra export option that has the columns already formatted for import into Google Calendar?
Hi, I haven’t yet had a closer look myself how to make it work. As I understand it is requested to have an calendar import that itself fetches all up to date bookings.
1. auto export bookings (cronjob?) to a format that fits, probably better ics file format?
2. provide it via some weblink to make it possible to subscribe and receive automatic updates for all upcoming bookings / let refresh the imported bookings automatically
“website puts up a calendar feed (basically a .ics text/calendar file possibly produced in real time from latest data, no caching). ”
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“Subscribing applications will check for any updates as and when suits them, as defined by their own algorithms. They parse the .ics file and process the RFC5545 event definitions and update their systems accordingly.”
Thanks
Hi!
We can definitely look into creating an export option that has the columns formatted as per the Google Calendar requirement and that also uses the .ics extension.
It’s unlikely that we would implement something automated, though. It would probably be possible, if we had something like the aforementioned export option in place, to create your own cron job to send it to your Google account. But I don’t think that’s something we’d build into the core functionality of the plugin. Never say never, though. If we get a lot of demand for something like this, we can investigate the possibility.
