GPE Calendar Import
 

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.

Re: GPE Calendar Import
 

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

Re: GPE Calendar Import
 

Thanks E1P1.

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

Thanks

Re: GPE Calendar Import
 

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) ?

Re: GPE Calendar Import
 

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! :mad: 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! :D

Cheers

Franko30

Re: GPE Calendar Import
 

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?

Re: GPE Calendar Import
 

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

Re: GPE Calendar Import
 

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

Re: GPE Calendar Import
 

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...

Re: GPE Calendar Import
 

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 ...

Re: GPE Calendar Import
 

Lifting this thread, as I think I have a useful tip at least for some gpe-calendar users...

I use Evolution on my normal computer (running Linux), and tried to export the calendar data to an ics file (using Save to Disk), then importing it to gpe-calendar. It failed, with a syntax error (missing value delimiter). The same .ics file could be imported by other calendar tools, and exported again from them, but still didn't import to gpe-calendar.

My calendar contained one entry which was originally generated under Lotus Notes, and it has a quite different syntax than the Evolution-generated entries.

For instance, this line may be a culprit:
DTSTART;TZID="W. Europe":20080109T100000
...Evolution uses completely different time zone denominations.

Re: GPE Calendar Import
 

I'm also trying to get outlook information into GPE.

straight CSV import does not work. ICS export fails with the latin-1 utf-8 error.

Master of gizmo had the same problem, and has a port of recode.

Can it be found anywhere?

Gaz

Re: GPE Calendar Import
 

Hi All,
I have created a calender using Outlook 2007, it contains all of this seasons Aston Villa matches so I can see them in my calender on my N900, when I import it and open it with my N900 is shows every match named 'busy' in calender??

Can anyone help? I can email the icalender file to you if it would help you identify where I am going wrong?

Thanks

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Looking further into it it seems that it is displaying the 'show time as' status instead of subject?

can anyone help

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Hi,
you can send me the icalender file, maybe I can help.

regards
Nicolai

Re: GPE Calendar Import
 

is it possible to make the source code for the gpe calendar desktop widget to reference the integrated maemo calendar functions of data?

ie- the todo button going to the tasks, the calendar to open the calendar, contacts going to our internal contacts.