Subscribing to a Plaxo Calender Folder in Google

[sachin]

Anyone able to do the above successfully?

I'm publishing (Not Share) my Plaxo calendar using the publish option. I then copy the link from my user homepage - Gimme iCal button, (username.myplaxo.com/calendar). The URL looks like the one below:

webcal://preview.plaxo.com/axis/calendar?_action=ExportEvents&authInfo.authByTicket.isPublic=true&authInfo.authByTicket.ticket=2-XXXXXXX-*&format=vCal

I then use the above URL to subscribe to in Google Calendar, but it errors out in google saying that it is not a valid iCal format. Looking at the URL above, it looks like the URL is returning a vCal from Plaxo. I have tried things like changing the above URL to my Shared Calendar URL, but with no luck.:mad:

Any clues?

Sachin

[chris]

It may be that you have an event causing a bug in our calendar exporting logic. It's difficult to tell with iCal if the problem is on the consumer's end (Google) or on the generators end (Plaxo). Very few (if any) places fully implement the iCal spec, so it can be prone to errors with complex calendars.

Do you know if it's possible to import the iCalendar generated by Plaxo into Outlook, Mac, or even subscribe to it in Plaxo Online?

Bugs here are notoriously difficult to track down, so it may be difficult to determine what's wrong without having the actual file and seeing it fail in our own parsing code.

Thanks for testing our preview!

Chris

[sachin]

Chris,

Thanks for your reply. I did what you asked me to do, and I'm able to subscribe using the URL inside Plaxo. It looks like other applications (I tried Google, 30 Boxes) are not able to understand the URL which is generated. Question is, why is the format arg = vCal?

Sachin