Well, after much scouring and some helpful Refreshers I found a few great resources for anyone trying to build a "one-click" solution (not that one exists!) similar to EventBright's and MeetUp's "Add to Calendar" button. Of course the JS & CSS for creating the expanding DIV is simple enough, but for the calendar formats Rich Marr's blog post was quite helpful:
http://richmarr.wordpress.com/tag/calendar/ Cheers, Art Thompson, Jr. Logical Things, Inc. 512-777-1158 [email protected] www.logicalthings.com - social links: facebook.com/logicalthings linkedin.com/in/logicalthings twitter.com/logicalthings We design, build and deploy branded Microsites, Landing Pages, Blogs, Eblasts and Whatever Comes Next. - On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Todd O'Neill <[email protected]> wrote: > Meetup.com also has a similar Add to Calendar. Simplest I've seen. > > Cheers! > > Todd O'Neill > Managing Director > DoingMedia > > Catalyst > C4 Workspace > > > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Art, >> >> Hmm. Well you can probably deconstruct the JavaScript they are using. Also >> there is an EventBrite WordPress plugin. But I don't see mention of the >> Calendar logic. Must be just for the main site. >> >> P- >> >> >> >> On Sep 10, 2010, at 3:39 PM, Art Thompson, Jr. wrote: >> >> Hi Paul, >> >> That eventbrite widget is exactly what I'm looking for! I really wish >> there was an open source solution for this (OpenLike, anyone?)--anyone feel >> like taking a stab at it? ;-) >> >> I basically told the "client" to pick one or two calendar formats and be >> happy with that. Now I want that eventbrite widget. >> >> Art Thompson, Jr. >> Logical Things, Inc. >> 512-777-1158 >> [email protected] >> www.logicalthings.com >> - >> social links: >> facebook.com/logicalthings >> linkedin.com/in/logicalthings >> twitter.com/logicalthings >> >> We design, build and deploy branded Microsites, Landing Pages, Blogs, >> Eblasts and Whatever Comes Next. >> - >> >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Art, >>> >>> Just a thought. Can you provide multiple links. Check out the sidebar on >>> this page http://www.eventbrite.com/event/103944902 >>> >>> If anything you should be able to generate a simple ICS event format. >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar >>> >>> P- >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sep 10, 2010, at 2:26 PM, Art Thompson, Jr. wrote: >>> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> I have a client that is living in a fantasy world where there is a button >>> next to an event listing that says "Add to calendar" which magically adds >>> said event to the user's calendar app of choice. I've explained to my client >>> that there's no such thing, but they already promised this functionality to >>> "the client" so it's up to me to make it happen. 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