Tickets :: [#6166] No free/busy info for Google Calendar

6.0.0-beta1

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Summary	No free/busy info for Google Calendar
Queue	Kronolith
Queue Version	2.1.4
Type	Bug
State	Not A Bug
Priority	2. Medium
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Requester	colan (at) openject (dot) com
Created	01/28/2008 (6370 days ago)
Due
Updated	05/22/2008 (6255 days ago)
Assigned	05/11/2008 (6266 days ago)
Resolved	05/22/2008 (6255 days ago)
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Patch	No

05/22/2008 11:51:41 PM	Jan Schneider	Comment #11 Taken from Horde Developers State ⇒ Not A Bug	Reply to this comment
Turns out, after an hour of debugging our code, that Google free/busy information is broken, aka useless. It does not contain any free or busy periods.

05/11/2008 09:21:13 PM	Jan Schneider	Comment #10 State ⇒ Assigned	Reply to this comment
No, it doesn't look like it.

05/02/2008 10:05:30 AM	Jan Schneider	Comment #9 State ⇒ Feedback	Reply to this comment
Is this the same like described in the following thread? http://lists.horde.org/archives/kronolith/Week-of-Mon-20080428/006810.html

02/28/2008 04:07:11 PM	Jan Schneider	State ⇒ Assigned

02/28/2008 03:58:42 PM	colan (at) openject (dot) com	Comment #8 New Attachment: example.ics	Reply to this comment
Luckily, it still works for me. I set the extension to ".ics", but maybe it's supposed to be ".vcs". I'm not really sure. Anyway, here it is.

02/28/2008 03:42:26 PM	Jan Schneider	Comment #7 State ⇒ Feedback	Reply to this comment
The link doesn't work for me anymore. Can you upload that file so that it doesn't get lost again?

02/01/2008 05:34:36 AM	Chuck Hagenbuch	Comment #6	Reply to this comment
The iCalendar library can parse that file; one problem seems to be that it's huge, so it takes a while to do anything with it. I'm not sure how effectively we're caching, though, and it doesn't seem to give usable information for me either.

01/31/2008 05:09:02 PM	Jan Schneider	Comment #5 Assigned to Horde Developers State ⇒ Assigned	Reply to this comment
Even if it isn't the free/busy feed, wouldn't it still be possible to deduce the free/busy times from it? No, but the feed actually is a valid free/busy url, so it should work.

01/30/2008 07:58:09 AM	colan (at) openject (dot) com	Comment #4	Reply to this comment
Even if it isn't the free/busy feed, wouldn't it still be possible to deduce the free/busy times from it?

01/30/2008 07:55:53 AM	colan (at) openject (dot) com	Comment #3	Reply to this comment
An example URL is http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/eric.standlee@gmail.com/public/basic as listed over at http://crusaderx.blogspot.com/2006/04/google-calendar-feature-share-freebusy.html. Adding him as an attendee yields no information. Now that you mention it, I'm not sure if that's a free/busy feed or a full calendar feed. Which is it? I thought they were the same. It looks like that's all Google Calendar offers. Maybe they don't support free/busy feeds after all.

01/30/2008 06:28:12 AM	Chuck Hagenbuch	Comment #2 State ⇒ Feedback	Reply to this comment
Can you please supply an example URL? And are you sure that it's a free/busy feed, not the full calendar feed? They're different things.

01/28/2008 09:35:24 PM	colan (at) openject (dot) com	Comment #1 Priority ⇒ 2. Medium State ⇒ Unconfirmed Queue ⇒ Kronolith Summary ⇒ No free/busy info for Google Calendar Type ⇒ Bug	Reply to this comment
If a user is added as an attendee to an event, and that user has a Google Calendar free/busy URL, http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/<e-mail-address>/public/basic, "No information" is all that comes up even though the non-iCal URL, http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=<e-mail-address>&ctz=America/Toronto, shows that the user is busy/not busy. So there is information. It's just not being read or processed.