On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 9:17 AM, New2Cal <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi. > > I was looking for a way to be able to add custom fields to my google > calendar. In particular, I'm working on a "lab booking" type > application, and there are other fields that are required like who the > lab is booked by, or what machines they are booking that I would like > to appear right in the calendar. Since it doesn't look like there is > a way to add fields, I tried to do it via the "description" field by > placing various fields on different lines, but I ran into several > problems: > > 1) the font of the description field is not monospace, so the entries > don't like up > 2) I tried to use basic html constructs like this: > > <b>Machines:</b> machine list > > ... bolding the "field" names to make them stand out, but they got > filtered out. > > Finally, I at least arranged the various fields, one on each line like > this: > > machines: machine1, machine2, machine3 > booked by: person1, person2 > > . It doesn't look great, but at least the information is there. > However, when I do this, and a user clicks on the field in the web > based HTML iframe, google calendar squishes all the information on one > line and gets rid of the CRs: > > machines: machine1, machine2, machine3booked by: person1, person2 > > argh! > > I could link to a web server that stores details, and MAYBE the > description would allow a link (haven't tried it), but then I would > have to maintain the data in two separate places, and I want to be > able to maintain the data in the booking calendar long after it is > removed from the system... (so you can look back and see who booked > what lab). > > Google Calendar seems really great... I can't believe that I would be > the only one looking for this type of functionality. > > Thanks for any help. >
Users have reported success using escaped HTML for hyperlinks. I don't believe this works for hyperlinks, but it would at least make creating the link easier. Please file a feature request here to suggest improvements (like this) for the API: http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/list -- Trevor Johns --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Calendar Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-calendar-help-dataapi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
