Calendar Server / Apple iCal Integration

I have asked support this question to.

Although both products are standards based Apple's iCal and SunONE Calendar Server are not compatiable with one other in my testing.

I believe Apple's iCal application uses WebDAV for syncing and subscriptions while SunONE Calendar server uses WCAP.

My testing also shows that ical exported data from Apple's iCal application is not compatiable with the ical file import into the SunONE Calendar Server.

The only supported ical format for the SunONE Calendar Server is the exported format from the calendar server itself.

I supplied some Apple iCal ical formated files to Sun Support so they could at least take a look at the issues involved in getting Apple's iCal ical format working for import.

It would be nice to get the two working nicely together.

joe honnold at 2007-7-1 15:34:11 >

Apple's ical will happily accept the output of the Sun calendar server. Take a look at http://rulink.rutgers.edu/macical.html. The script involved in doing this is available on a different web page: tricks.html.

Note however the iCal.app does appear to have any ability to do synchronization. You can maintain your calendar on your Mac and regularly upload it, or you can maintain it on a server and regularly download it. But that's not real synchronization. I'm currently implementing maintaining your calendar on the server and downlaoding it.

707232 at 2007-7-1 15:34:11 >

hi:

I have not heard from either Sun or Apple on this.

I recently updated our calendar server to hotfix 1.6 and reading this thread again makes me want to test the import and export again. If it works I was thinking of setting up a process of exporting calendar server data and importing iCal data.

On a server, run a script regularly that exports a users calendar server data to a WebDAV enabled web server. iCal app subscribes to the calendar.

iCal can then publish to the server and the script would then import the revised calendar to the calendar server. I really don't know how practical this is but it's how I looked at the problem.

joe.

ultimo at 2007-7-1 15:34:11 >