Comments on: Fusing Google Calendars with iCal

By: Benny Powers

Benny Powers — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:41:21 +0000

well done! thanks for the info

By: David

David — Fri, 07 May 2010 22:26:46 +0000

THANK YOU! GREAT POST. Solved a huge headache for me. Apple shouldn’t create a problem like this! That is why we use Apple and not Microsoft! This is such a Microsoft like problem!

By: .jsber

.jsber — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:16:07 +0000

hej, on Snow Leopard (10.6.3) I used CalDAV as Account type and pasted the Calendar ID of the calendar I wanted to use (as qwertyuiopasdfghjkl1234567@group.calendar.google.com in this explanatory) as user name, used my password and in Server Address I put http://www.google.com.
Click on Create and you get the following error:
“iCal found the CalCAV server “www.google.com”, but couldn’t log in with the user name “qwertyuiopasdfghjkl1234567@group.calendar.google.com”. Make sure the user name and password you entered are correct, then try again.”

But right with the error and if you don’t wait to long, the button “Create” changes to “Continue” and if you click it, you can change “user name” to your google user name, hit the Create button and voila, its done. This “simple”

By: Billzy

Billzy — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:53:33 +0000

Wicked Help!!! Thanks for the tips, you saved me a lot of time with my calendars.

Cheers!

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:00:58 +0000

Correction: Your method works, here’s what I did wrong.

I was copying in, or using variants of the calendar address that one will get from the little [XML] [iCal] [HTML] buttons. This obviously does not work.

Just to the right of those buttons is the place that actually says “Calendar ID”. If you use that, inserted into the normal url convention that you gave above, it does work.

If you wanted to update this page, you could add a screenshot of the Gcal settings page, with a circle or an arrow showing where the Calendar ID is. I have used the XML link so much in the past, I thought that was what I was looking for.

Thanks for posting this solution. I can confirm this works in Snow Leopard.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:19:52 +0000

When I do this in Snow Leopard, it says “No CalDAV server was found at the specified address”.

I am using:
http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/XXXXXXXgroup.calendar.google.com/private-d5018ee60d02e2ecb8ffabe5bf56e4e0/basic.ics

(XXXXX’s for privacy)
The link that is given in the share settings on Google’s Calendar page does not have /dav/ in it, it has /ical/ in it. I have tried both ways and neither works. I have also tried with http and https. Neither works.

Here is the message I get from all variants of above:
https:—–/ical/xxxxxx -No CalDAV server

https:—–/dav/xxxxxxx -No CalDAV server

http:—–/ical/xxxxx -No CalDAV server

http:—–/dav/xxxxx -iCal found the CalDAV server “www.google.com”, but couldn’t log in with the username “xxxxxx”. Make sure the user name and password you entered are correct, then try again.”
(The password and user name I have are obviously correct, checked by retyping)

By: Ruth

Ruth — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:47:29 +0000

I keep hitting a snag in Step 2, #7 and I can’t figure out what I am doing wrong. I keep getting error messages saying either that my password was rejected (I have checked it several times) or that the server is not recognized. Is there a step-by-step for making a new account for delegates in iCal (snow leopard)?

Thanks

By: peter

peter — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:45:52 +0000

Hey, what else should i paste in the fields?
If i only fill in the long adress, iCal wants to know username and PW…
if i fill it in, it won’t work, too…

whats the problem?

By: Svein Are

Svein Are — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:08:50 +0000

I have a different problem. I want to:
- Create a shared calendar on Google Calendar
- Import historical events (from a ics-file I have, I have checked and it validates (http://severinghaus.org/projects/icv/)
- Edit events in iCal (Snow Leopard)

What I successfully managed was:
- Created the shared calendar
- Imported historical events (tried importing at Google Calendar and importing in iCal)
- Events can be viewed in Google Calendar
- Events are NOT visible in iCal (delegate-view)
- Events ARE visible in iCal if I subscribe to the public feed

Anyone else have experienced this? If anyone want to look at this, I can invite you to edit the calendar (Google account).

By: bernie

bernie — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:55:32 +0000

great – thanks it works.
now the next problem: How can I sync my Iphone so that a a new Calendar entry from the iphone shows up in a google calendar. The only option I get from Isync is to sync it with an ical calendar.