topic Re: iCal in Alfresco Archive

iCal

diruak — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:48:23 GMT

I noticed that Share has an iCal feature. Does this allow you to import outlook events into Share or can you only download the event list from Share?

Re: iCal

timsiddle — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:07:11 GMT

I havn't had any luck with this. Whilst there is an ical 'feed', outlook (2007, anyway..) won't accept it. It requires the url to end in *.ics, where as the alfresco feed url doesn't do this.

Alfresco also seems to publish ics files to a folder within the site - so you can access this via CIFS if you so wish. However, it creates one ICS for each appointment - again, outlook won't cope with this.

A shame. Share has the makings of an excellent tool. However, for now, it lacks the completeness of a mature application, IMO.

Re: iCal

attymullins — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:37:11 GMT

Actually the iCal Feed is to allow you to 'subscribe' to your Share site calendar from an outside application. I've successfully subscribed from multiple applications (iCal, Sunbird, phpCalendar).

Atty

Re: iCal

mikeh — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:33:55 GMT

Outlook seems to want a non-standard iCal format (thanks, Microsoft). I'll see if I can work out why it's being so picky for v3.2

Mike

Re: iCal

mroloux — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:52:25 GMT

I believe the problem is that Outlook does not support HTTP authentication. When you import the iCal feed with an other calendar client (e.g. Lightning), it prompts for your user name and password. Outlook doesn't do this.

Re: iCal

rays — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:49:23 GMT

Faced with the same issue of no prompting in Zimbra Web Client, I edited the given iCal URL from

http://your.alfresco.server:8080/share/proxy/alfresco-feed/calendar/eventList?site=testsite&format=calendar

to prefix the required login info:

http://UserNameassword@your.alfresco.server:8080/share/proxy/alfresco-feed/calendar/eventList?site=testsite&format=calendar

Works in Zimbra. I have no idea if that will help you around the limitation in Outlook but it may be worth a shot?

Re: iCal

mroloux — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:53:34 GMT

Good point, I didn't know you could supply user names and passwords in HTTP URLs.

However, it still doesn't work in Outlook 😞 Most likely because of http://support.microsoft.com/kb/834489

Re: iCal

jimbobcl — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:45:52 GMT

Outlook seems to want a non-standard iCal format (thanks, Microsoft). I'll see if I can work out why it's being so picky for v3.2

Mike

I'm trying the current version Alfresco (v3.3G CE)

I have got Outlook 2003 to download the Share Calendar by using the free addin utility Remotecalendar.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/remotecalendars/

Once installed in outlook click on subscribe a remote calendar and paste the ical feed url into the addin and then enter the login details. It seems to work okay…

HTH
Jim

Re: iCal

mthomas — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 07:38:51 GMT

I'm trying to sync outlook 2010 calendar with the Share calendar. Still have not been able to get it to work.
Sure would be nice if this could happen.

Re: iCal

stevericker — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 08:00:31 GMT

Does anyone know if this will work yet in either 3.4.c or Enterprise 3.4? Thanks.

Re: iCal

gcattwood — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:08:17 GMT

I am also interested in the resolution to this. If running from an https will it work?

Re: iCal

zbennett — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:32:33 GMT

Hi all,

I think I have the solution, but someone will have to test it for me! Simply copy the URL on your iCal feed button, paste it into your address bar, and change "http://" to "webcal://" and hit enter.

This solution works for me using Firefox and Outlook 2007. I modified the iCal feed button code at one point long ago, but I can't remember if I'm still running the modified code. If the solution above doesn't work, I can do a little more research.

Woosh…it has been so long since I have been able to work with Alfresco!

Re: iCal

swiggy — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:01:37 GMT

Yes it works !
Thanks

Re: iCal

mthomas — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:16:19 GMT

It doesn't work for me with Outlook 2010. Did microsoft change the address away from webcal?
I get an error, "the file "eventList" is not a valid Internet Calendar file."

Re: iCal

zbennett — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:13:49 GMT

Hi mthomas,

I haven't used Outlook 2010 at all, but I'm willing to bet they didn't change much in the name of calendar support. The error message you got is the same one I saw many, many times while trying to figure this out.

Take a look at these instructions and follows steps 5-7: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/manage-and-preview-calendars-published-with-the-outlook-calendar-publishing-service-HA010388759.aspx#_Toc260569380

To be honest, I don't expect it to work, but it's worth a shot! Outlook 2007 complains when you follow this same process because the iCal links in Alfresco don't end in .ics.

Wikipedia says that Webcal uses WebDAV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcal). Do you know if you have WebDAV enabled? If not, try enabling it and retrying the process I described above.

Re: iCal

mthomas — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:05:59 GMT

That totally worked! Not sure what I was missing before. To be honest I think it was a problem with my passthru authentication because once I verified that I was logged on through my domain controller (I hadn't been before), the WebDav sign-in dialogue popped up and Outlook grabbed the calendar.
Now if only I could make changes in outlook and have them be reflected back to the Share site, I would be home free. Instead I get a "this calendar is read only" warning.
Thanks for all the help.

Re: iCal

mthomas — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:23:38 GMT

Where do I look to modify the iCal button feed code?

Re: iCal

efestione — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 09:34:35 GMT

Hi all,

I think I have the solution, but someone will have to test it for me! Simply copy the URL on your iCal feed button, paste it into your address bar, and change "http://" to "webcal://" and hit enter.

This solution works for me using Firefox and Outlook 2007. I modified the iCal feed button code at one point long ago, but I can't remember if I'm still running the modified code. If the solution above doesn't work, I can do a little more research.

Woosh…it has been so long since I have been able to work with Alfresco!

Thank you this works for me.
But can it be considered a Share issue? Has anyone raised this on Jira?

Re: iCal

zbennett — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:41:52 GMT

I don't know if it's an "issue" per se… I seem to remember the current format working with other iCal-enabled calendars. You might give it a shot with Mozilla Sunbird or something like that.

In a future version of Alfresco, it would be really neat to see the iCal button turn into a drop-down menu or dialog that give you the option to choose between iCal or WebCAL.

Re: iCal

efestione — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:53:38 GMT

thanks zbennet
I have just raised this improvement jira issue:

http://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-7494

on the basis of your suggestion.

regards
Alex