Import Yahoo Calendar CSV file

[edkiefer]

Is there a way to import a yahoo csv file into gigcalendar?

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Easy answer: no

Hard answer: yes - take a look at how the CSV file is created and change the format of the data into an XML file formatted like gigCal's GCD file.  This is a gigCal xml file format of the selected database items. This import/export process may not work correctly, it was a last-minute addition and there have been some reports on the forum that this doesn't always work smoothly.

Alternately you could push the data directly into the database if you're a smart programmer. If anyone gets this up and running, PLEASE consider giving the code back to the project.

[jasonrhl]

I will look at devising a way to get the calendar to work with google and may be yahoo.   No guarantees.

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I have recently been in contact with a developer that is making similar changes to make gigCalendar compatible with Google Calendar...which has some very exciting possibilities! I will post more hard data when I receive it but this developer has also provided a fix for exporta.php which hasn't really worked correctly since gigCal's initial release. Here is a quote from our recent correspondence:

the ICS file generated does not make Google Calendar happy, so I'm moving the whole thing into the main gigCalendar component and adding a format module similiar to the RSS feeds, so it can be specified a bit more exactly what should be in the iCal card, as well as stripping out or handling multi line content.

If I can get that to work, I probably won't bother using GigCalendar's calendar display functions on the front end, Google just has a better implementation there and no reason to re-invent the wheel.  Instead GigCalendar will feed into Google Calendar, which can then feed back into GigCalendar for detailed display of data - and AttendEvents for RSVP functions.

Basically, I'll take it as far as I need it, which should add in a few extra functions, but not much past that.