From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Eglen Subject: Re: Status google calendar sync Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:13:47 +0100 Message-ID: <14096.1308226427@maps> References: <8762t3idd3.fsf@gmx.ch> <4D48E887.20900@gmail.com> <5E7BEB01-1411-4BF4-A36B-C4FF43E55CF6@fastmail.net> <6843D3C6-E3B7-4D31-9F4C-163FA3770D71@fastmail.net> <4DF24E8E.5010200@lbl.gov> <87hb7rory9.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60615) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QXCU2-0001kU-Tr for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:19:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QXCU0-00025V-2l for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:19:42 -0400 Received: from ppsw-51.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.151]:51879) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QXCTz-00024u-Jw for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:19:39 -0400 In-reply-to: <87hb7rory9.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Eric S Fraga , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Cc: Stephen Eglen Eric S Fraga wrote: > Stephen Eglen writes: > > > Thank you very much Arun, this page looks great: > > > >> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-google-sync.html> > > > > When going from org -> google, do I need to do anything about using > > org-icalendar-store-UID? I'd rather not have to populate my org files > > with :ID: entries. > > > > Stephen > > The UID entries are necessary if you intend to upload a file that > contains entries that you previously uploaded. Without these, any > pre-existing entry will be duplicated in google's calendar. Thanks Eric. Reading around a bit, there seems to be a bit of disquiet about how google calendar reads .ics files, e.g.: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Calendar/thread?tid=3fad85f47a70864b&hl=en In particular, it seems odd that there is so much uncertainty about the interval with which google calendar re-reads the .ics file and updates the calendar. I don't mind hitting a *refresh* button within a calendar to manually force a resync, but there doesn't seem to be such a button! I think what I'm looking for is a *read-only* solution so that google calendar just renders the current orgmode.ics file read from the web, rather than recalling what events were previously read in. (I don't need to write to this calendar, as my org files are the master.) In this way, I would hope the ID entries would not be required. I'm still in the first days of using my new android phone, so I may be missing something, but there seemed no other decent calendar tool on the android market that would just read and render an .ics file from the web. I did however find this: https://market.android.com/details?id=org.nightlabs.android.icssync which sounds useful. Has anyone else seen/tried this? Stephen