does this still support private calendars?

  • Resolved artemis2234

    (@artemis2234)


    10 years ago

    Is it possible to use this with private calendars still and if so how please?

    example of page which used to work: https://www.rachelmatthewsmusic.com/piano-instruction/studio/

    longer version of question below :)….

    In Dec I noticed this stopped working on a blog for a client; it could have stopped sooner but I’m not on retainer so I only do periodic checks as a courtesy.

    Today I tracked it down to at least two items – one is that API change (plus I needed to change the id as shown in your blog instead of using the XML per previous instructions… her id is nothing like the format you show on that screenshot btw if that is relevent) — the second issue was that I had to make the calendar public. The calendar allows all referrers right now, so filtering wasn’t interfering. The only way I could get it to work is to change the access to public. She doesn’t really want it to be public.

    On the example page, widget in the left column
    https://www.rachelmatthewsmusic.com/piano-instruction/studio/
    there are two instances —

    1) the top one is the original config which used to work – the header is “Studio Calendar” but there is no feed…
    2) below the menu is a second instance which was added per your new instructions, the title is ‘–‘. This is the only page with the left column, so this is where I’m testing :).

    you don’t have to be signed in as a user to see the calendar on the left side

    help ? ??

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/google-calendar-widget/

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  • Plugin Author Poco

    (@poco)

    Calendars must be public in order to use this plugin. As you say, you don’t need to be logged in to view the calendar, so why does it matter if the calendar is public or not?

    This is because the plugin uses the client to download and display the calendar. So the web site user has to have the appropriate google permissions to view the calendar as they would if they had added it to their own Google Calendar View (which, by the way, is a very handy way for her to share the calendar). Public is the only way (as it was before, or so I thought).

    There are no plans to support server-side downloading of calendar data, which is the only reasonable way to ensure that everyone viewing it has the appropriate credentials.

    Thread Starter artemis2234

    (@artemis2234)

    Thank You.

    Actually, it did used to work with private calendars, and although there was not any big hushhush about this calendar, since some of the people attending the activities can be minors the idea was just to keep as low of a profile as the internet permits reasonably; without going to any extremes.

    It still does work with privacy settings to a degree — if you click the box to only show free/busy time but not all details, only part of the feed gets delivered to it. We’re letting it show everything but I can see how that might be useful for some. Public events for the feed but they could also have their private notes when they sign in.

    I appreciate your plugin. It works great.

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