iCal feed is Static – changes not reflected

  • Resolved billw16

    (@billw16)


    8 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    I Love your plugin, it’s great! But I am having a problem with the ical feed.

    After subscribing to the iCal feed the resulting calendar is static. New events are never added and changes to existing events are not updated. I’ve imported ical to MS Outlook and also added it to a Google Calendar – the results are the same. [NOTE: I can subscribe to other iCal feeds in Outlook which do work correctly, dynamically refecting changes when the source is updated]

    Here is the code I’ve used:
    Subscribe: [eme_ical_link scope=all notcategory=5]
    (Same result when not limiting category)

    Here is the code I’m using to add to a Google Calendar:
    https://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=https://www.google.com/calendar/render?cid=https://singlyfocused.com/?eme_ical=public&notcategory=5&scope=all

    [EME Version 1.7.6]

    Is there something I’ve missed somewhere?

    Thanks

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  • Plugin Author Franky

    (@liedekef)

    No, but it depends on google, sometimes it takes a long time before google resynchronizes (search for “google ical update frequency”).
    Concerning updating existing events, I found the ical “SEQUENCE” attribute for VEVENTs could help, but in order to add that parameter extra coding is required since that SEQUENCE attribute needs to be added by one everytime something to an event changes (so I need to track that number, but currently I track the change timestamp, not just a number).

    Thread Starter billw16

    (@billw16)

    Thanks for your quick reply, but that isn’t really the issue I’m having… The Calendars linked via iCal feed are totally static, they are never updated even after 2 months. This problem occurs in both the Google calendar as well as the iCal feed to MS Outlook. They act as if the link is not a feed at all, but rather a static snapshot of the calendar events at the time the link is created.

    As a test, I’ve added a new EME Calendar feed to both MS Outlook and also to a new Google Calendar using the same code as above (the original ones had already been deleted). I then updated several items; moving event dates, adding a new event, and deleting an existing one.

    I’ll wait to see if either calendar will show these changes, so far (>24hrs) none of the changes have appeared in either calendar.

    [Now on EME version 1.7.7]

    Thread Starter billw16

    (@billw16)

    Ok, sorry Franky. This isn’t a problem with EME at all, but with the way Outlook opens iCal files. NOTE: The Google calendar feed was updating correctly.

    Opening the link created with the following does not ‘subscribe’ Outlook to a feed:
    Subscribe: [eme_ical_link scope=all]

    The resulting link is an ‘https://’ address to your ical file. When you open such a link with MS Outlook the resulting calendar is NEVER updated, but remains static. There is a process which allows you to subscribe to a feed using this link, but it’s a little involved and varies depending on which version of Outlook you have. Far too much trouble just to get our calendar.
    Fortunately, there is a simple solution…

    Replace the prefix of the link created above with ‘webcal’ (or ‘webcals’ for ‘https’ security) as below:
    webcals://yoursite.com/?eme_ical=public&scope=all

    Opening this link from Outlook actually DOES ‘subscribe’ to the ical feed, it is automatically updated with any changes made to your EME calendar.

    Simple.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by billw16.
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