iCal

[diruak]

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?

[gcattwood]

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

[zbennett]

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!

[swiggy]

Yes it works !
Thanks

[mthomas]

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."

[zbennett]

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-outlo...

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.

[mthomas]

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.

[mthomas]

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

[efestione]

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?

[zbennett]

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.

[efestione]

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