Comments on: Fusing Google Calendars with iCal

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 06:03:52 +0000

Thanks for your help, no-one else explained this way!

By: Berniece Cisneroz

Berniece Cisneroz — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 03:28:01 +0000

Really like your approach.You’re providing information I can use at this moment, and fixin’ to. Thanks!.

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By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 11 May 2011 23:42:46 +0000

Thanks,

You saved the day for me. Very accurate, clear, easy to follow instructions for this task. Thanks!

By: Angela

Angela — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:29:46 +0000

Hi,

I have Ian’s concern, too. With this method, you are unable to add the event created on an iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch to a calendar that’s synced with Google. You can only select a ‘local’ calendar.

That then defeats the purpose of having separate (organized) calendars if you end up with an ‘Unfiled’ calendar anyway, storing all events entered on your device/s. If you’re not feeling lazy, you sort them out when you’re on your Mac, but that’s very tedious and inefficient.

Might as well go back to my no-sync iCal for now.

Thanks, still, Matteo.

By: Matteo Rinaudo

Matteo Rinaudo — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:06:23 +0000

Hello again Ian – actually the option to choose which calendar to create an event in seems to be offered only when calendar accounts are created on the device itself.

By: Matteo Rinaudo

Matteo Rinaudo — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:37:38 +0000

Hello Ian – when you create a new event: open the `Calendar’ application on your device and tap on the `plus’ sign, the `Add Event’ form should have a field called `Calendar’. This field holds the `Default Calendar’ setting that is configured in the `Mail, Contacts, Calendar’ form of the `Settings’ application on your device. When you create an event, you should be able to tap on the aforementioned `Calendar’ field, and then a list of the available calendars which are set up on your device should appear: at this point you should be able to select the desired calendar for your event. Also, if you do not use your default calendar as you mentioned, you might consider changing the `Default Calendar’ setting the `Mail, Contacts, Calendar’ section mentioned before: there you can choose the calendar you use most often as the default calendar.

By: Matteo Rinaudo

Matteo Rinaudo — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:17:22 +0000

Hello Kevin: since the main calendar and your delegate(s) have been configured as separate accounts, iCal seems to be listing them separately on the left column. As per my understanding, I am not sure if it is actually possible to group them (since they are configured as separate CalDAV accounts, even if they belong to the same one), but you can modify each description field for each account such as instead of (e.g.) `myemail@gmail.com’ for all of them, it reads its specific description, for instance `Main Calendar’, or `TODO’ or `MY OTHER CALENDAR’. To do so, open iCal, go to `Preferences’, select the `Accounts’ tab and click on each account entry on the left column to select it and to edit the `Description’ field.

By: Ian Shulman

Ian Shulman — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:20:27 +0000

I’d like to say first that this is a great fix for the delegate calendar issue. It works really well for reading events on delegate calendars. However, when I go to create a new event in iCal (on my iPod Touch) the event only shows up in the primary calendar, which I don’t even use.

Is there any way to set up iCal on the Touch so I can select which calendar I want to create the event in?

Ian

By: kevin

kevin — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:22:05 +0000

I just did this to avoid having everything listed as a delegate, but I ran into another problem. Now, each individual calendar I have is listed under my google account name separately. For instance, I’ll have a group titled “myemail@gmail.com” and under that I’ll have one calendar. Then I’ll have another group titled “myemail@gmail.com” and under that another calendar. Every one of my calendars is listed individually like that. Any ideas?