Use remote calendars in icalendar format

[njsain]

Will future versions of Scaix allow users to view or import remote icalendar files?

Nathan

[florian]

There is an enhancement request for this on the table, but we haven't finally decided on when and what to do.

What particular usecase/application are you thinking of?

Thx,
Florian.

[tetete]

I would like to be able to open my calendar from any ical client

[florian]

read only this is possible.... from scalix 10 and onwards.

go to http://my.scalix.hostname/webcal

and authenticate as the very user.

hope this helps,
Florian.

[koshi]

Is it possible to access a public calendar the same way? could you post an example url?

[jasonesman]

Need to also know if this is possible to access a public calendar in the same way?

[elstevedre]

Ditto on public calendar access.

-Steve

[ajpierson43]

I think it would be really cool to be able to subscribe to a remote icalendar server. We are developing a project management application that will allow iCal clients to connect to it. If I could create a calendar in scalix that would read it's info from the remote iCal server, that would be great. I would even be fine with it being read only.

[patd0681]

I would like to access my Scalix calendar using Google's calendar. Google calendar is useful to me because each calendar is treated as a layer. Managing several calendar can become difficult.

Google calendar allows the user to subscribe to an ical host. I think the current implementation of webcal within Scalix will do the job, but I do not know how to pass the userid and password required to connect as part of the command line provided to Google calendar.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[florian]

we actually use basic http authentication. does google calendar not support this over including the credentials in the URL, which is highly insecure?

Thx,
Florian.

[patd0681]

It appears Google only allows subscriptions to public calendars (ie calendars with public URLs).

http://www.google.com/support/calendar/ ... topic=8606

Google generates a long URL for each calendar which can be privately shared with friends. The URL is long and not easily guessed, but could probably be cracked if someone really wanted access to a calendar. There are no credentials required for this type of calendar sharing.