I'm trying to take the Recurrence Data from the google event object, send it to a DDay iCal object, then move that into my app...problem is the google event recurrence data isn't at all iCal...I was hoping google has a converted to get the feed or event data into iCal
Not possible? On Aug 25, 12:06 pm, Rick DeNatale <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:59 AM, stevescotthome<[email protected]> wrote: > > > How do I get the Recurrence Value to be parsable by iCal > > > 1. The event is incomplete. It's missing the BEGIN:VEVENT and > > END:VEVENT tag > > 2. The VTIMEZONE is "embedded" within the event information, which is > > not legal in the iCalendar standard. This makes handling this text > > much harder. > > > DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20090123T081500 > > DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20090123T120000 > > RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;BYDAY=FR;WKST=SU > > BEGIN:VTIMEZONE > > TZID:America/Toronto > > X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto > > BEGIN:DAYLIGHT > > TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 > > TZOFFSETTO:-0400 > > TZNAME:EDT > > DTSTART:19700308T020000 > > RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU > > END:DAYLIGHT > > BEGIN:STANDARD > > TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 > > TZOFFSETTO:-0500 > > TZNAME:EST > > DTSTART:19701101T020000 > > RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU > > END:STANDARD > > END:VTIMEZONE > > Well at the very least: > > The first three lines need to be wrapped between > BEGIN:VEVENT/END:VEVENT lines then > > the whole thing needs to be put between BEGIN:VCALENDAR/END:VCALENDAR lines > > And I'm guessing that there's more stuff missing from the event itself > like a SUMMARY attribute (which gives the event title). > > It also might need a UID attribute to be acceptable to google, not > sure about that though. > > -- > Rick DeNatale > > Blog:http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ > Twitter:http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale > WWR:http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale > LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
