new.lds.org calendar syncing issues

I started a separate thread to focus just this topic.

macsense wrote:2-Syncing is not working. Ahead of this new August release, syncing with my Mac iCal worked fine. I suspect there is a problem with new calendar because when I look at the Bishop Overview page under Leader and Clerk Resources section of the beta site, it is no longer bringing in calendar items as it was before.

In trying to update the link in iCal, copying the the new link provided by new.lds.org into the appropriate spot in iCal yields the following error: "The data downloaded from [link redacted] isn’t valid."

My iPhone is also unable to validate the new link provided.

I ran into the same error trying to use the link in Google Calendar.

I have a similar error when trying to sync with Outlook. It says that the Internet calendar is invalid.

I couldn't find a feedback link on the new calendar page, and my search of the tech.lds.org/jira website did not show that this has been reported, so I reported it as a bug.

This is a known issue that is being worked on. Should resolve automatically with a refresh to a web service that the calendar relies on. Thanks

Chadf wrote:Should resolve automatically with a refresh to a web service that the calendar relies on.

Not sure exactly what this means. Can you elaborate? Is this a work around? Thanks.

opee wrote:Not sure exactly what this means. Can you elaborate? Is this a work around? Thanks.

It sounds to me like he's referring to a server at CHQ that supports the calendar and not something at the user (client) side of things.

techgy wrote:It sounds to me like he's referring to a server at CHQ that supports the calendar and not something at the user (client) side of things.

Now it makes sense. Thanks.

Here is an image of the error message that I get. I did some searching on some forums and it appears that one culprit may be reoccurring appointments. One user had simple appointments and it synched fine, but after adding a reoccurring appointment, it gave these errors...

It appears as if the syncing is working now with my gmail calendar. I have, however noticed a new problem. Every few hours I am getting emails on every event which is amounting to over 180 emails every few hours.

mmacconnell wrote:It appears as if the syncing is working now with my gmail calendar. I have, however noticed a new problem. Every few hours I am getting emails on every event which is amounting to over 180 emails every few hours.

It works for me too now. I am not seeing the emails [yet]. I still get the "creation error" that I was seeing before, but it is syncing nicely with Outlook.

Syncing with iCal and iPhone both now seem to be working.

I'm not able to sync to iCal. I'm following the proper steps as best as I can tell.

iCal says: There was an error subscribing to the calendar.

I'm not really sure if it has worked with Google or not yet. Does anyone know which calendars sync? Is it all calendars that I have access to or is it just the main calendar?

Ammon13 wrote:I'm not able to sync to iCal. I'm following the proper steps as best as I can tell.

iCal says: There was an error subscribing to the calendar.

I'm not really sure if it has worked with Google or not yet.

I haven't done any iCal sync -- only Google, which has worked fine for me.

Ammon13 wrote:Does anyone know which calendars sync? Is it all calendars that I have access to or is it just the main calendar?

The sync is for all subscribed calendars. See Syncing with Third-Party Calendars.