SID-00710: Integrating Google Caldendar with Twiki

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Hello All,

I came across this site which runs Twiki and also has an instance of Google Calender embedded in one of the pages:

http://bdml.stanford.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/Calendar

I am trying to get a wiki off the ground where I work and this sort of calender feature would be very useful to us (it looks to be better than the Calendar plugin that Twiki has).

I've tried contacting someone at the site to ask how they did this but to no avail.

Does anyone know how they integrated the Google Calender into Twiki? Even if you don't know the exact details but could point me in the right direction that would be a big help.

Best Regards

Richard

-- RichardMSmith - 2010-01-11

Discussion and Answer

Hi,

Check - http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=41207

the TWiki site which you have pointed - seems to have created group in Google and the group has calendar which is embedded in TWiki.

If you embed following in TWiki topic - you can see my calendar.

<iframe src="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=sopan.shewale%40gmail.com&ctz=Asia/Calcutta" style="border: 0" width="800" height="600" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

Check - https://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Sandbox/SopanShewaleGoogleCalendar

If you are looking for creating Plugin or contributing on similar lines to TWiki community please get connected through IRC

Cheers,

-- SopanShewale - 2010-01-12

Closing this question after more than 30 days of inactivity. Feel free to reopen if needed. Consider engaging one of the TWiki consultants if you need timely help. We invite you to get involved with the community, it is more likely you get community support if you support the open source project!

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-03-04

I have tried to do this with a group Google calendar, and it doesn't work, it just shows the raw iframe instructions when you try to use this code:

<iframe src="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?height=600&wkst=1&bgcolor=%23FFFFFF&src=65ndcv6cp2ol4btck6nss9sh2g%40group.calendar.google.com&color=%238D6F47&ctz=Etc%2FGMT" style=" border-width:0 " width="800" height="600" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

This should work, going by what Sopan suggests, but doesnt. Is there something special to do other than just edit the page as per normal?

-- NickAshtonHart - 2010-03-23

Do a "Raw Edit", not "Edit". If you use the WYSIWYG editor (just "Edit") it will escape the angle brackets.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-03-23

Fantastic, worked like a charm - thanks Peter

-- NickAshtonHart - 2010-03-24

I have some concerns about using Google calendar:

1. For the calendar to be readable in TWiki, the calendar needs to be public on Google.
2. As near as I can tell, there are no group calendars possible in Google. There are only personal calendars shared with group members.
3. I think you need to have a gmail address in order to post to a Google calendar. You definitely need a Google account in order to create and share a calendar.

-- Vicki Brown - 2014-07-18

Your concerns are valid. If you want the tight integration with TWiki, e.g. use existing TWiki users it might be better to enhance the CalendarPlugin to fit the additional needs.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2014-07-19

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