iCal clarification needed
cory.riddell says:
I've been reading about webcal support and I have a few questions:
The iCalendar service for all tasks is under settings / info. Is there a private url version of this? If not, should the feed work even if I'm not logged into RTM?
There always seems to be two iCal feeds: iCalendar and iCalendar (Events). I haven't been able to figure out exactly what's different about them. Does it have something to do with assigning a date and time to the task?
What's an easy way of seeing the raw iCal feed? Should I be able to pull the feed using the webcal uri with wget? Is there some way to get Firefox to display the feed in a way similar to what it does with XML?
The iCalendar service for all tasks is under settings / info. Is there a private url version of this? If not, should the feed work even if I'm not logged into RTM?
There always seems to be two iCal feeds: iCalendar and iCalendar (Events). I haven't been able to figure out exactly what's different about them. Does it have something to do with assigning a date and time to the task?
What's an easy way of seeing the raw iCal feed? Should I be able to pull the feed using the webcal uri with wget? Is there some way to get Firefox to display the feed in a way similar to what it does with XML?
andrewski (Remember The Milk) says:
1. The iCalendar listed in Settings | Info is authenticated; it works with a username and password (independent of you being logged in to the RTM website). A private address version of this exists by using the iCalendar link for the Smart List "All Tasks".
2. The main iCalendar feed shows tasks as tasks (VTODOs in iCalendar lingo). Since many iCalendar-supporting applications don't support these, we've created the iCalendar (Events), which shows dated/timed tasks as dated/timed events on your calendar.
3. Probably the easiest way to see the iCalendar data itself is to open it in a text editor once downloading it. As far as I know, Firefox will always try to download it, thus making it impossible (or at least difficult) to view its source in the browser.
Hope this helps!
2. The main iCalendar feed shows tasks as tasks (VTODOs in iCalendar lingo). Since many iCalendar-supporting applications don't support these, we've created the iCalendar (Events), which shows dated/timed tasks as dated/timed events on your calendar.
3. Probably the easiest way to see the iCalendar data itself is to open it in a text editor once downloading it. As far as I know, Firefox will always try to download it, thus making it impossible (or at least difficult) to view its source in the browser.
Hope this helps!
cory.riddell says:
That helps a lot. Thanks.
In order to get the iCalendar data, I had to paste the URI into firefox and remove the "webcal://" part of the string. Chrome refused to open the link no matter what I did to the address.
In order to get the iCalendar data, I had to paste the URI into firefox and remove the "webcal://" part of the string. Chrome refused to open the link no matter what I did to the address.