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Wednesday, 20 June 2012

Validate .ics Calendar For Google Calendars

Somebody recently tried to share a calendar they have in Microsoft Outlook with me by using a webcal .ics link. Adding the calendar to Google calendars is quite easy (see the screenshot below - make sure you swap webcal:// for http://), but Google is very picky about making sure the construct of the calendar is valid - unlike Outlook!

So if you need to find out why Google calendars won't load it, use this great ics validator tool.

Adding the calendar:



2 comments:

  1. Nice idea, but my ICS files validate with this tool and still get rejected by Google with no explanation other than 'processed 0 events'. Having experience of Froogle and it's appalling 'go figure it out yourself, we're not going to tell you what we baulked at' approach, I suppose I should really expect this.

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