Synchronising Communigate Calendar with Google Calendar

[Niall O Broin]

I recently submitted a question to tech. support about this, asking:

Is there any way of synchronising Communigate's Calendar with Google
Calendar with the current version of Communigate Pro i.e. so that new
events in one calendar get replicated to the other? I know that
Communigate will now accept emailed invites from Google - this isn't
what I mean. I'm looking for something less manual.

and the answer I received was

It's possible to retrieve events from the Google calendar in the iCal
format using private URLs. Then, you can import the resulting
basic.ics file into CGPro calendar folder through the WebUser
interface or by HTTP PUTting it through /CalendarData/ realm (Please
see <http://www.communigate.com/CommuniGatePro/CalDAV.html#ICS>).

This answer is technically fine, but I know it's not the solution the
customer who asked is looking for (because of course he wants magic,
as they all do). He'd like to somehow be able to link his Communigate
Calendar and a google calendar so that when he made a change in one,
it got replicated to the other, and ideally this linking should be bi-
directional.

Have any of you come up with a solution for something like this?





Kindest regards,



Niall O Broin



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[Postmaster]

If the clients are OS X (Leopard) this could perhaps be used : http://spanningsync.com/



/Leif Carlsson

Post by Niall O Broin
Is there any way of synchronising Communigate's Calendar with Google
Calendar with the current version of Communigate Pro i.e. so that
new events in one calendar get replicated to the other? I know that
Communigate will now accept emailed invites from Google - this isn't
what I mean. I'm looking for something less manual.
and the answer I received was
It's possible to retrieve events from the Google calendar in the
iCal format using private URLs. Then, you can import the resulting
basic.ics file into CGPro calendar folder through the WebUser
interface or by HTTP PUTting it through /CalendarData/ realm (Please
see <http://www.communigate.com/CommuniGatePro/CalDAV.html#ICS>).
This answer is technically fine, but I know it's not the solution
the customer who asked is looking for (because of course he wants
magic, as they all do). He'd like to somehow be able to link his
Communigate Calendar and a google calendar so that when he made a
change in one, it got replicated to the other, and ideally this
linking should be bi-directional.
Have any of you come up with a solution for something like this?
Kindest regards,
Niall O Broin

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[Wayne Gamble]

Or busysync from http://www.busymac.com

Post by Postmaster
If the clients are OS X (Leopard) this could perhaps be used : http://spanningsync.com/
/Leif Carlsson

Post by Niall O Broin
Is there any way of synchronising Communigate's Calendar with
Google Calendar with the current version of Communigate Pro i.e. so
that new events in one calendar get replicated to the other? I know
that Communigate will now accept emailed invites from Google - this
isn't what I mean. I'm looking for something less manual.
and the answer I received was
It's possible to retrieve events from the Google calendar in the
iCal format using private URLs. Then, you can import the resulting
basic.ics file into CGPro calendar folder through the WebUser
interface or by HTTP PUTting it through /CalendarData/ realm
(Please see <http://www.communigate.com/CommuniGatePro/CalDAV.html#ICS

).

This answer is technically fine, but I know it's not the solution
the customer who asked is looking for (because of course he wants
magic, as they all do). He'd like to somehow be able to link his
Communigate Calendar and a google calendar so that when he made a
change in one, it got replicated to the other, and ideally this
linking should be bi-directional.
Have any of you come up with a solution for something like this?
Kindest regards,
Niall O Broin

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[Bret Miller]

Sorry for the late reply. I guess the answer would depend on what
platform the user is running on. If the user is on Windows, running
Outlook and MAPI, then Google's own calendar sync program may just do
the trick for free. Other Windows options (which also require Outlook
and MAPI) are OggSync and gSyncIt. I don't know of anything that will
sync directly between CommuniGate and Google, though the API for both is
publicly available so you could easily write something that did just
that. Note that it would require the user's credentials to update Google.

Bret

Post by Niall O Broin
Is there any way of synchronising Communigate's Calendar with Google
Calendar with the current version of Communigate Pro i.e. so that new
events in one calendar get replicated to the other? I know that
Communigate will now accept emailed invites from Google - this isn't
what I mean. I'm looking for something less manual.
and the answer I received was
It's possible to retrieve events from the Google calendar in the iCal
format using private URLs. Then, you can import the resulting
basic.ics file into CGPro calendar folder through the WebUser
interface or by HTTP PUTting it through /CalendarData/ realm (Please
see <http://www.communigate.com/CommuniGatePro/CalDAV.html#ICS>).
This answer is technically fine, but I know it's not the solution the
customer who asked is looking for (because of course he wants magic,
as they all do). He'd like to somehow be able to link his Communigate
Calendar and a google calendar so that when he made a change in one,
it got replicated to the other, and ideally this linking should be
bi-directional.
Have any of you come up with a solution for something like this?
Kindest regards,
Niall O Broin
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[John Rudd]

Late reply here too.

If CGP supported SyncML (preferably as both a server and a client, the
way it supports POP), then you could easily set it up to SyncML to
something like GooSync or Funambol, and then that service would take
care of the rest.

By both directions I mean:

As a server, SyncML clients, such as Nokia phones (and lots of other
phones, or things like Thunderbird/Firefox with SyncML plugins, I think
Outlook and Apple's mail/addressbook/safari also have SyncML plugins, as
well a Sync-Kolab or whatever that's called), could be told to sync with
CGP via SyncML. They could send contacts, calendar information,
todo/task information, maybe sync Email, and maybe even sync bookmarks
(some SyncML clients and servers even allow you to sync random data
elements, which could be files in your CGP web/ftp space). See
funambol's documentation, GooSync's compatible phone list, and the
Wikipedia entry for SyncML for information about what
phones/devices/software out there supports SyncML.

As a client, you could do something like RPOP. Each account could set
up entries for "periodically run SyncML against some remote server, and
sync my contacts/ calendar/ todos/ maybe-email/ maybe-notes/
maybe-bookmarks/ maybe-random-data-from-your-web-and-ftp-space to it.
You'd want to set up a checkbox for each thing that's supported by CGP,
so that it knows which ones to try sending to the remote server. This
would help you with syncing data to a funambol server, GooSync, or
something like Oracle Calendar. Or maybe all three. (and there are more
server types out there)

Suddenly, the largest user base of phones on the market (Nokia and
Symbian S60) are able to sync contacts/calendar with CGP. And probably
the vast majority of desktop email/calendar clients, not just for
Windows, but also for Mac and Linux. Plus, you also capture Android
phones via GooSync and Funambol (funambol is releasing a Google sync
plugin for their SyncML servers, to coincide with Android's release, for
supporting SyncML and Android)

That'd be a much bigger win, for me, than ActiveSync.

Post by Bret Miller
Sorry for the late reply. I guess the answer would depend on what
platform the user is running on. If the user is on Windows, running
Outlook and MAPI, then Google's own calendar sync program may just do
the trick for free. Other Windows options (which also require Outlook
and MAPI) are OggSync and gSyncIt. I don't know of anything that will
sync directly between CommuniGate and Google, though the API for both is
publicly available so you could easily write something that did just
that. Note that it would require the user's credentials to update Google.
Bret

Post by Niall O Broin
Is there any way of synchronising Communigate's Calendar with Google
Calendar with the current version of Communigate Pro i.e. so that new
events in one calendar get replicated to the other? I know that
Communigate will now accept emailed invites from Google - this isn't
what I mean. I'm looking for something less manual.
and the answer I received was
It's possible to retrieve events from the Google calendar in the iCal
format using private URLs. Then, you can import the resulting
basic.ics file into CGPro calendar folder through the WebUser
interface or by HTTP PUTting it through /CalendarData/ realm (Please
see <http://www.communigate.com/CommuniGatePro/CalDAV.html#ICS>).
This answer is technically fine, but I know it's not the solution the
customer who asked is looking for (because of course he wants magic,
as they all do). He'd like to somehow be able to link his Communigate
Calendar and a google calendar so that when he made a change in one,
it got replicated to the other, and ideally this linking should be
bi-directional.
Have any of you come up with a solution for something like this?
Kindest regards,
Niall O Broin
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