Thanks for the reply. Perhaps I can accomplish what I want if I could
tag events somehow, and then filter
events by tag? It looks like there may be support for this in the API
("extended properties"?), is that a reasonable
direction to take?

On Dec 18, 3:29 pm, Trevor Johns <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2008-12-18 05:59:11 -0800, Elbow Festival <[email protected]> said:
>
>
>
> > The use case is for a class scheduling system. I would like to display
> > class times to users in a google calendar widget.
> > However I would also like to filter classes by room, teacher, or any
> > other associated resource. I don't want to
> > create a million little calendar feeds for this, it seems like it
> > would be easier to have a custom feed URI that
> > includes the filter parameters in it, so I could project the
> > visibility of the events myself. Also, although Google Calendar
> > could host the actual event data it would probably be easier for me to
> > do it myself since I need to have that information
> > for other purposes anyway. I figured it would be simple to just swap
> > out the source of the feed URI as long as I could serve
> > the feed data in the right format.
>
> The problems most people run into is that are usually action-based
> quotas (for example, trying to create hundreds of calendars at once).
> Another common problem is people polling our servers too frequently (a
> good rule of thumb trying to pull updates no freuently than once per 15
> minutes).
>
> We don't have any support for using custom Atom feeds with the Calendar
> widget. However, you could create your own iCalendar file, import that
> into Google Calendar, and then display the imported calendar in the
> Calendar widget. There will be a bit of a delay though, since we cache
> external iCalendar files.
>
> --
> Trevor Johns

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