{"id":34,"date":"2006-04-16T15:23:12","date_gmt":"2006-04-16T15:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2006-04-16T15:47:21","modified_gmt":"2006-04-16T15:47:21","slug":"new-google-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/new-google-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Calendar supported by Flock Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After finally working out how to make the maps in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flocktogether.org.uk\">Flock Together<\/a> clickable, I&#8217;ve now also added the functionality to put Flock Together events automatically into <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/its-about-time.html\">Google&#8217;s newly launched Calendar<\/a>. [For an example, check out the button at the bottom of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flocktogether.org.uk\/showMeetingPage.php?Meeting=108\">this page<\/a> or try the button below].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flocktogether.org.uk\/googleCalendar.php?Meeting=108\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/images\/ext\/gc_button1.gif\" alt=\"Google Calendar button\" width=\"100\" height=\"25\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Google don&#8217;t appear to support the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tech\/rss\">RSS<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ietf.org\/internet-drafts\/draft-royer-calsch-xcal-03.txt\">xCal<\/a> feed that I&#8217;ve been using for publishing events.  They&#8217;ve published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/googlecalendar\/event_publisher_guide.html\">fairly simple standard for entering individual events via a single URL<\/a> (which I&#8217;m using), but to enter a series of events it looks like you need to provide an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ietf.org\/rfc\/rfc2445.txt\">iCal<\/a> feed or their own format of XML feed. <\/p>\n<p>In a burst of enthusiasm last summer, I put the functionality into Flock Together to publish iCal feeds, but I&#8217;m a bit loath to switch it on.  iCal feeds (or .ics files) tend to get opened by Outlook on many PCs and, as far as I can recall from when I last tried it, Outlook falls over if you ask it to open more than one event in a single file.  It&#8217;s also not currently clear whether Google will index external feeds, so, unless there&#8217;s an immediate clamour to the contrary, I will wait and see how many people use the Google calendar service via Flock Together before taking things any further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After finally working out how to make the maps in Flock Together clickable, I&#8217;ve now also added the functionality to put Flock Together events automatically into Google&#8217;s newly launched Calendar. [For an example, check out the button at the bottom of this page or try the button below]. Unfortunately, Google don&#8217;t appear to support the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/new-google-calendar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Calendar supported by Flock Together&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flock-together","category-politics","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}