[Owncloud] WebCal/iCalendar import

[Florian Hülsmann]

Hi,

I would really love to have webcal subscription support in the calendar 
app. Webcal is nothing else than periodically fetching an .ics 
(iCalendar)-File from a server and updating the contained events on the 
local machine, quite much like RSS/Atom. Not just because Google 
Calendar has it too but rather because a local company I'm working for 
aside school developed a webapp that provides collections of calendars 
as WebCal feeds.

My proposal is to have an input for the webcal://-URI, a select field 
for the targeted calendar (or "New Calendar") and an input for the 
frequency (how often the calendar should be refreshed). OwnCloud could 
then either use cron jobs internally (not recommended) or have a db 
column "last_refresh" and then check for it every time the calendar is 
requested (from browser or CalDAV).

Is someone already working on that? If not, I can do that maybe next 
month...

Have a nice day,

Florian

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Florian Hülsmann
<fh at cbix.de>
http://cbix.de