Every single delegate at events these days has a minimum of one mobile device with some form of calendaring on it. COD should cater to this by exporting its schedule data in an iCal feed. This will allow delegates to set up notifications for their selected sessions in their preferred scheduling software.

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ezra-g’s picture

+1. I've already longed for this feature at conferences powered by COD.

Because we're using Date field with full timestamps for timeslot nodes, this should actually be relatively simple to add to the personalized schedule view. Hooray.

drumm’s picture

We got at least one request for this in London.

cafuego’s picture

Version: 6.x-1.x-dev » 7.x-1.x-dev
Component: Code » cod_session

Okay, this is actually a fairly easy thing to do, so lets get it done.

I assume step one should be be adding http://drupal.org/project/date_ical to the drush make file? When that's present, iCal views can go into cod_session.

Minimum views we'll want:

  • Full schedule iCal
  • My program iCal

Comments anyone? Bueller?

lisarex’s picture

Sounds good to me! I'd start with full schedule and 'my schedule' and see how it goes.

kattekrab’s picture

When we had iCal feeds for "MyProgram" for delegates - they LOVED it. Given the explosion of mobile devices - smartphones, tablets etc - this would be a sweet feature for COD.

cafuego’s picture

I've opened #1869692: Add date_ical module to COD to get the module added to the profile.

cafuego’s picture

Oh, oh. There is potentially a problem with date_ical only being able to provide feeds of entities that contain the date/time field, not once that use an entity reference for them (#1462646-5: Error when date-field is not available in content types).

rootwork’s picture

So both the issues above seem to have been fixed -- has there been progress on making this happen? What's the next step? Happy to help if I can!

rootwork’s picture

Any progress on this at the sprints?

japerry’s picture

My schedule exists as a view, we just need to make an iCal exportable option... probably using a views display or similar. tagging to Alpha 4.

chrisguindon’s picture

I've opened #2009974: Adding libraries to COD to allow us to enable date_ical. The libraries module is a requirement for date_ical.

chrisguindon’s picture

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