tama | # 1 | 2007-09-11, 21:30 | Report

If import from .ics (iCalendar) or .vcs (vCalendar) file for somebody is working for GPE Calendar, then please post a sample .ics or .vcs file here.

A sample file with one or two events will be enough. I am unable to get import to work. I can start with a file is known to work, then I can format my data to that file format using scripts.

Thanks.

EIPI | # 2 | 2007-09-11, 23:06 | Report

When I imported an ics file, it just worked... It did take a long while, however.

tama | # 3 | 2007-09-12, 14:05 | Report

Thanks E1P1.

For others, I found file at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/holidays.html which gets imported nicely.

Thanks

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tama | # 4 | 2007-09-12, 17:50 | Report

Now Imports are working fine. The file I was trying to import has a date 20070931 (31 st Sep) in file. The Import was failing there. Once I fix that, Import started working fine. Now how the hell that 31st sep came in .ics file (well I need not worry about that) ?

Franko30 | # 5 | 2008-01-15, 11:26 | Report

Hi,

my imports from several Evolution-export-files worked fine, but one is having trouble, my personal calendar (the evolution standard calender, Ubuntu 7.10):

It starts the import, takes forever with CPU maximum and then GPE tells me that s.th. was defined twice in the import file, the exact message being:
That's really strange, because the other files that worked were exported from the exact same program (I keep several calendars within Evolution to get different names and colours).

Can anybody take a guess?

EDIT

Well - I took a (long, very long) look at the .ics file in a text editor: Man, these files are a mess, no order at all - old and new entries right next to each other.

I actually found some events I imported from an online conferece calendar that contained two summaries each. Went through the whole file and corrected that.

Only to find out, that GPE doesn't accept two description lines either! And these were my own calendar entries. It seems that Evolution is a really messy program and therefore accepts such items without warning notice.

Hopefully, all this manual editing stuff is worth it, meaning: I hope the edited file will work someday. Hours later: Success!

Cheers

Franko30

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dubwise | # 6 | 2008-01-15, 18:54 | Report

I'm trying to import an ics, generated from Datebook5 on my Palm through iSync to iCal.
I get:
syntax error [invalid character]!
Any way for me to get more detailed information?

Saturn | # 7 | 2008-01-15, 19:44 | Report

I have the very same file I've used with kernelconcepts version back in 2007 that still fails miserably.

It could at least give the line number that failed!!!

Uninstalled, bye

gazza_d | # 8 | 2008-01-15, 19:48 | Report

Has anybody on here tried a csv import into GPE calendar?
I quickly tried one this afternoon from Outlook, but it immeaditaly failed with a syntax error (missing attribute or group) error.

I don't particulary want to use google calendar and syncing tools at work due to fairly draconian internet usage restrictions. Last time I tried it kept trying to connect making me look like a right skyving so and so
cheers
Gaz

speedmartini | # 9 | 2008-03-05, 05:23 | Report

Allrighty! I was able to utilize this little bit of VB - http://outlook2ical.sourceforge.net/ - to export my Outlook calendar to an .ics file. I saved the file to a temp directory on MMC2, and then was able to import into gpe calendar with no trouble whatever. Looks very nice actually - 'course if we had PC Suite for the N800...

Master of Gizmo | # 10 | 2008-03-14, 09:42 | Report

And if you are - like me - using accented characters you might want to run "recode LATIN-1...UTF-8 file.ics" since gpe-calender expects utf-8 while that makro exports Latin1.

I'll upload my port of recode for maemo into my maemo repository once i get home today ...