Using google calendar
i spent a lot of time trying out google calendar, and love it now. previous threads have pointed out that you cannot sync ical and google yet, but if you use google as your primary calendar, then just subscribe in ical and you'll have an updated schedule every time you refresh.
here's why i've defaulted to google: now multiple users can edit the same calendar. my wife, who does not use a mac, and i can now share a calendar, view the same events, and edit events. all changes that are made by either user gets updated to our respective calendars.
i did have one strange bug though-- i created and subscribed multiple calendars in google. most of these calendars look fine in ical, but my money calendar which has several events repeating by month, never gets displayed properly.
take a look: this is what google calendar displays.
http://i3.tinypic.com/vsdu89.jpg
but then ical has a weird glitch where i can see the outlines of an event, but won't display any info or details:
http://i3.tinypic.com/vsdudi.jpg
if anyone knows how to fix this, please help!
None of the annually repeating all-day events in my Google Calendar show up correctly in iCal. The work-around of giving the events a start time does at least make them visible but they don't appear in a nice coloured 'lozenge' and they display with a start time which is annoying.
Here's an event that does display correctly:
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20021226
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20021227
SUMMARY:Boxing Day
UID:DECC1D87-B635-4EF8-B464-2F3812CD4620
DTSTAMP:20040707T140415Z
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYMONTH=12
END:VEVENT
And here's one that doesn't:
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20060616
DURATION:PT86400S
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYMONTH=6;WKST=SU
DTSTAMP:20060505T083339Z
ORGANIZER;CN=Friends & Family:MAILTO:****@group.calen
dar.google.com
UID:A77BB69E-D6FF-4CB9-9A22-3695CE73B91A
CLASS:PRIVATE
CREATED:19000101T120000Z
DESCRIPTION:
LAST-MODIFIED:20060502T135833Z
LOCATION:
SEQUENCE:1
STATUS:TENTATIVE
SUMMARY:Jo's Birthday
TRANSP:OPAQUE
END:VEVENT
Although the Google event is using a really different approach to describing the event there's no excuse for iCal failing to displaying it. If iCal can't parse an event it should tell the user there's a problem. As it is, the event is displayed but in a garbled way that makes it virtually invisible.
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