I cannot create an untimed Calendar event, can I?

The google comes back with scant hints when this question is posed to it.
Is it possible to create an untimed event in Calendar?
I just want to show that on Friday May17th something has to be addressed and the specific hour:minute is irrelevant. The calendar is shared between parties which is why I'm trying to make the event in that app.
I'm starting to think two things:
(1) this is ridiculous that I cannot make this so, and
(2) is this a subtle way of pushing me to Reminders or Notes or some other app and, if so, which one and how do I share it?

Hi,
If you do not know the time of the event the nearest thing in Calendar would be an all day event. It may be that a reminder is the more appropriate option. I do not know about sharing a list of reminders.
This is a user to user forum. By posting here you are not guaranteed someone from Apple will read it. If you'd like Apple to know about this I suggest you send them feedback.
Best wishes
John M

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Script creates+deletes Google Calendar-events. (free SMS-notification)

I posted this in another thread too, but since a discussion would be off-topic there (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=64933):
Here a Python script that creates a Google Calendar-event in the main calendar, with as subject the contents of a specified file.
Feel free to post modifications/optimizations! I use it this way to get notified of unanswered conversations in finch (as in the thread above), it was easier to work with a file then with specifying arguments..
PS. The script uses python-mechanize, which is in community.
#!/usr/bin/python
# From: gondil
# To: the Arch Linux forums ;)
# Version 2 (deletion added)
import mechanize
import sys
import urllib2
import httplib
from urllib2 import HTTPError
# Create a mechanize browser
mech = mechanize.Browser()
mech.set_handle_robots(False)
# With Goggles desired UAgent
mech.addheaders = [("User-agent", "Java/1.5.0_06")]
# See the G-API: We need a some token here, that is displayed by /~pkelchte/ (mah personal php site on ESAT that only does that)
mech.open("https://www.google.com/accounts/AuthSubRequest?scope=http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/&session=1&secure=0&next=http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~pkelchte/index.php")
# But before we get the token, we need to submit our user-data
mech.select_form(nr=0)
mech["Email"] = "" # REPLACE THIS WITH YOUR GOOGLE ACCOUNT
mech["Passwd"] = "" # AND THIS WITH YOUR PASSWORD
try:
mech.submit()
except:
print "Did not submit credentials"
sys.exit("Error in submitting credentials")
# Because that's not enough, we need to confirm that we want to go trough with this and submit another form...
mech.select_form(nr=0)
mech.submit(id='allow')
# By now, we have one token, but it's not the final token! We need *another* token, called the AuthSubSessionToken, sigh...
mech.addheaders = [("Authorization", "AuthSub token=\"" + mech.response().read() + "\""), ("User-agent", "Java/1.5.0_06")]
mech.open("http://www.google.com/accounts/AuthSubSessionToken")
# A bunch of tokens later...
# Let's use urllib2 to do this POST request (some xml-y thing is the string you would manually type in the "New event" box on Google Calendar)
# Encore some headers
authsub = "AuthSub token=\"" + mech.response().read().replace("\n","").split("=")[1] + "\""
headers = {"Authorization": authsub, "User-Agent": "Java/1.5.0_06", "Content-Type": "application/atom+xml", "GData-Version": "2"}
# Read the file that we're interested in! Damn, it's so interesting!!
file = open('/home/gondil/public_html/fifo', 'r') # CHANGE THIS FILE WITH YOUR THING
message = file.read()
file.close()
# The actual event
event = """
<entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:gCal='http://schemas.google.com/gCal/2005'>
<content type="html">""" + message + """</content>
<gCal:quickadd value="true"/>
</entry>
req = urllib2.Request("http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/default/private/full", event, headers)
calresponse = urllib2.urlopen(req)
# Normally, we stop here... but since Google likes traffic, we need to go to a slightly different url, with the same headers and POST data
req2 = urllib2.Request(calresponse.geturl(), event, headers)
try:
calresponse2 = urllib2.urlopen(req2)
# You can check but normally this is a 201 CREATED response or something, I don't really care... It's my code, right :P
except HTTPError, e :
# I placed this sleep to give the event at least a 20 second lifetime (poor, poor event...)
import time
time.sleep(20)
# Retrieve the event's edit url
eventurl = e.read().split("<link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.google.com")[1].split("'/>")[0]
# The Deletion has to be done via httplib, because Google wants a DELETE request (urllib2 only handles GET and POST)
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("www.google.com")
conn.request("DELETE", eventurl, "", headers)
calresponse3 = conn.getresponse()
# Again, they like to have a little more traffic, we need to append a session ID to that last url (we can find it in the redirect page)
eventurl2 = calresponse3.read().split("HREF=\"")[1].split("\"")[0]
# Ooh and here there is need of a new header, no questions please
headers2 = {"Authorization": authsub, "User-Agent": "Java/1.5.0_06", "Content-Type": "application/atom+xml", "GData-Version": "2", "If-Match": "*"}
conn.request("DELETE", eventurl2, "", headers2)
calresponse4 = conn.getresponse()
# No errors? Ok we can close the connection
conn.close()
index.php looks like this (again I don't guarantee that I'll keep my index.php page like that for eternity, but I'll notify you when the url changes):
<?php
print $_POST['token'];
print $_GET['token'];
?>
Last edited by gondil (2009-04-23 22:45:38)

I posted this in another thread too, but since a discussion would be off-topic there (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=64933):
Here a Python script that creates a Google Calendar-event in the main calendar, with as subject the contents of a specified file.
Feel free to post modifications/optimizations! I use it this way to get notified of unanswered conversations in finch (as in the thread above), it was easier to work with a file then with specifying arguments..
PS. The script uses python-mechanize, which is in community.
#!/usr/bin/python
# From: gondil
# To: the Arch Linux forums ;)
# Version 2 (deletion added)
import mechanize
import sys
import urllib2
import httplib
from urllib2 import HTTPError
# Create a mechanize browser
mech = mechanize.Browser()
mech.set_handle_robots(False)
# With Goggles desired UAgent
mech.addheaders = [("User-agent", "Java/1.5.0_06")]
# See the G-API: We need a some token here, that is displayed by /~pkelchte/ (mah personal php site on ESAT that only does that)
mech.open("https://www.google.com/accounts/AuthSubRequest?scope=http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/&session=1&secure=0&next=http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~pkelchte/index.php")
# But before we get the token, we need to submit our user-data
mech.select_form(nr=0)
mech["Email"] = "" # REPLACE THIS WITH YOUR GOOGLE ACCOUNT
mech["Passwd"] = "" # AND THIS WITH YOUR PASSWORD
try:
mech.submit()
except:
print "Did not submit credentials"
sys.exit("Error in submitting credentials")
# Because that's not enough, we need to confirm that we want to go trough with this and submit another form...
mech.select_form(nr=0)
mech.submit(id='allow')
# By now, we have one token, but it's not the final token! We need *another* token, called the AuthSubSessionToken, sigh...
mech.addheaders = [("Authorization", "AuthSub token=\"" + mech.response().read() + "\""), ("User-agent", "Java/1.5.0_06")]
mech.open("http://www.google.com/accounts/AuthSubSessionToken")
# A bunch of tokens later...
# Let's use urllib2 to do this POST request (some xml-y thing is the string you would manually type in the "New event" box on Google Calendar)
# Encore some headers
authsub = "AuthSub token=\"" + mech.response().read().replace("\n","").split("=")[1] + "\""
headers = {"Authorization": authsub, "User-Agent": "Java/1.5.0_06", "Content-Type": "application/atom+xml", "GData-Version": "2"}
# Read the file that we're interested in! Damn, it's so interesting!!
file = open('/home/gondil/public_html/fifo', 'r') # CHANGE THIS FILE WITH YOUR THING
message = file.read()
file.close()
# The actual event
event = """
<entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:gCal='http://schemas.google.com/gCal/2005'>
<content type="html">""" + message + """</content>
<gCal:quickadd value="true"/>
</entry>
req = urllib2.Request("http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/default/private/full", event, headers)
calresponse = urllib2.urlopen(req)
# Normally, we stop here... but since Google likes traffic, we need to go to a slightly different url, with the same headers and POST data
req2 = urllib2.Request(calresponse.geturl(), event, headers)
try:
calresponse2 = urllib2.urlopen(req2)
# You can check but normally this is a 201 CREATED response or something, I don't really care... It's my code, right :P
except HTTPError, e :
# I placed this sleep to give the event at least a 20 second lifetime (poor, poor event...)
import time
time.sleep(20)
# Retrieve the event's edit url
eventurl = e.read().split("<link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.google.com")[1].split("'/>")[0]
# The Deletion has to be done via httplib, because Google wants a DELETE request (urllib2 only handles GET and POST)
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("www.google.com")
conn.request("DELETE", eventurl, "", headers)
calresponse3 = conn.getresponse()
# Again, they like to have a little more traffic, we need to append a session ID to that last url (we can find it in the redirect page)
eventurl2 = calresponse3.read().split("HREF=\"")[1].split("\"")[0]
# Ooh and here there is need of a new header, no questions please
headers2 = {"Authorization": authsub, "User-Agent": "Java/1.5.0_06", "Content-Type": "application/atom+xml", "GData-Version": "2", "If-Match": "*"}
conn.request("DELETE", eventurl2, "", headers2)
calresponse4 = conn.getresponse()
# No errors? Ok we can close the connection
conn.close()
index.php looks like this (again I don't guarantee that I'll keep my index.php page like that for eternity, but I'll notify you when the url changes):
<?php
print $_POST['token'];
print $_GET['token'];
?>
Last edited by gondil (2009-04-23 22:45:38)

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