On 17. mar. 2006, at 11.46, Lennart Regebro wrote:
Erik Harg wrote:
I have a question regarding the webcal interface to the CPS
calendar (CPS ver. 3.3.4).
The CPSCalendar has recently been deprecated for the completely
rewritten and immensly improved CPSSharedCalendar. One of the
things that was shaky in CPSCalendar was the iCalendar support... :)
Okey, I imagined something like that, and I will probably try to port
our portal over to v.3.6 when we get a new server or some spare time,
some day... That would probably include the CPSSharedCalendar?
That said, the quetions you have here actually are valid for
CPSSharedCalendar as well.
I have successfully used the "subscribe to this calendar" link
(with a "?disable_cookie_login__=1" added) to subscribe to my CPS
calendar in my desktop calendar application. Now, I would like
two-way synchronization; i.e. I want the changes I make in iCal
(yes, I'm on a Mac) to be flushed to CPS, and still get all new
and updated appointments from CPS. I found an application that I
thought would do this – it claimed so – in iSynCal.
I haven't personally tried iCal, I don't have a mac, but others
here have, and as far as I know this works out of the box, without
the iSynCal software.
Well, the main problem with iCal (not only in relation with CPS) is
that it - like Outlook, I think - does not currently support
synchronization, only "subscription". And this I've got; my CPS
calendar is visible within iCal (albeit with a 1 hour offset of all
appointments as the CPSCalendar ics file is generated without
complete TZ info, and all appointments are added in UTC time, whereas
I'm one hour ahead). But I cannot make changes to my subscribed CPS
calendar from within iCal, because iCal does not support it, and this
is why I'm trying to find 3rd party utilities to do the syncing.
I have a problem, however. The iSynCal's ability to sync with an
iCalendar on a DAV-/webcal-server is built up around the notion
of "mounting a DAV share", searching in a specified folder of
that share, and list the *.ics files available there. This seems
to not work rather well with CPS...
No, you are supposed to go to the ics file directly. iSynCal seems
to enable sharing of iCalendar files over a filesystem. This is not
the case here.
I reckoned as much, and I am aware that the mounting-and-searching-
strategy is a slightly weird behaviour of the iSynCal, but it's still
the most promising application I've found. And as to the "sharing of
iCalender files over a filesystem" description of iSynCal -- that
*was* its primary goal, but in the latest versions it has added a
feature called AutoMount, which enables syncing of remotely
accessible iCalendars over a multitude of protocols (afp, smb, dav,
ftp and https). This is what uses the mount-and-search approach,
which is not very compatible with dynamically generated .ics files
like CPS's.
1) Will it at all be possible to "sync back" changes made in a
3rd party desktop calendar application to the CPS calendar (or is
this feature possible in a future release, or using an extension
to CPS?)
Yes.
At least someone is able to *answer* in brief. My reply seems to get
as long-winded as my original email...
Thank you, Lennart, for your thoughts on this!
I'll still be happy to hear from other users who may have an opinion
on this, or a hint towards getting syncing to work for iCal (+
iSynCal) + CPSCalendar (or CPSSharedCalendar).
--
Erik Harg
TerraVision AS
t. +47 924 98 541
e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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