How can I use Kontact to connect to remote servers, either via iCal/ics or calDAV? I have a number os services that I am trying to import. I have found some postings online that suggest that iCal is a possibility, but the HowTos are Google Calendar centric command line modifications, and don't have much relevance for me as far as I can see.

Kubuntu 9.04

There are no obvious commands for subscribing to remote calendars in Kontact

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KDE absolute newbie.

In the KOrganizer view, click the "+" button next to "Calendar" on the bottom of the left pane, select "Calendar in Remote File", click OK, set the "Download from" to the calendar url, click OK ... ?

Sorry, maybe I should have been more specific. I want to subscribe to the calendars and not just download an iCal file.

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Moved to the Office & Productivity area.

@globetrotterdk: Alec's way would subscribe you to the calendar. You need to make sure that you have a full path entered to the ical, both for download and for upload.

There's also a radiogroup with which you can select how often you want it updated (On startup, every 10 minutes, etc.)

This works for downloading, but I get an 404 error when trying to
send the calendar back to google.
Anything I'm missing here?

Me also!

I can view two different Yahoo calendars but when I try to edit I get:

An unexpected error (400) occurred while attempting to upload

In the KOrganizer view, click the "+" button next to "Calendar" on the bottom of the left pane, select "Calendar in Remote File", click OK, set the "Download from" to the calendar url, click OK ... ?

I'm sorry,but this seems to have no relation to my set-up at all. Can you let me know another way of doing this?

I tried to find out the solution to solve 404 error, but nothing so far.

However, last Friday I found a way to access google calendar, both uploading and downloading.

1. Download GCALDaemon and extract it.
2. edit conf/gcal-daemon.cfg, in section FILE-BASED SYNCHRONIZER. Assign file.ical.path, file.google.username and file.google.password. Password should be encrypted and you can use bin/password-encoder.sh to get an encrypted version of your password. Also, file.private.ical.url should be filled with the ical URL provided by Google Calendar.
3. under GCALDaemon folder, run bin/sync-now.sh. You'll get an ics file you specified in the config.
4. In the SystemSetting, Personal Information, add a new resource of type "local file calendar", assign the file and type iCalendar. Then you can use this resource in KOrganizer.
5. Everytime you run bin/sync-now.sh, it can upload your changes in KOrganizer (of course you need to specify the resource to the google icalendar file). So I put it to cron table to run every 10 minutes.

Enjoy it!

Does anyone have a better solution than using a 3rd part application to generate and upload the iCal?

It would be great if Kontact supported uploading as well as downloading...

+1

Too bad to have to use thunderbird, instead of kontact which is far more consistent with kde interface...

If you wanna sync with google give a try to akonadi-googledata (for example in Archlinux http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26051)

Regards

Damnshock wrote:If you wanna sync with google give a try to akonadi-googledata (for example in Archlinux http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26051)

Regards

Already have it... but still doesn't seem to be possible to sync two ways...
I have an error everytimekorganizer tries to send a modification to google server...

iCal is a read only possibility offered by google calendar (http://goo.gl/m3vvg )... as you wrote, we don't want to download an iCal file

Even in the calendar settings if you pay attention the comment written for the private address: "This is the private address of this agenda. Do not give this address to others unless you want them to see all events on this calendar."

SEE doesn't mean EDIT (it took me hours to realise)

calDAV is used by google (google how to http://goo.gl/NqFxS ) but kontact use groupDAV (which seem to be different/not compatible !!!!) so so so still searching...