iCal - tips

Hi,

Few things I learnt along the way while trying to make iCal work with Google Calender

iCal URL is too long > hence google gives > FAILED TO IMPORT

The problem with google calendar is, the length of the iCal feed URL. Google restricts the iCal feed URL length to 225 characters. Please make sure that your generated iCal feed is less than or equal to 225 characters.

This can be resolved by using TinyURL
Works great with google calender & Outlook.

I had set up a seperate Form / View to be used exclusively with my calender.
The Form's field names were exactly as the ones described in the iCal Help Document

Date & Time Field - DScript name DTSTART

Date & Time Field - DScript name DTEND

Single line field - DScript name SUMMARY etc etc

so that, when i generate the url string, I can use something like this.

http: //creatorexport.zoho.com/<app owner name>/<app link name>/ical/<view link name>/DTSTART=DTSTART&DTEND=DTEND&SUMMARY=SUMMARY

But it was not ment to be. The above link structure did not work at all.

The problem is because of deluge field name, which are same as iCal feed properties.

Change the DScript names to smallcase, and
make appropriate change to url structure... works just fine

@ZC team,
Please include these in the help document.

Best Regards
-Deepa Govind