Syncing NexCloud calendar with external caldav resources

šŸ± Features & apps šŸ“† Calendar
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Hello All,

I just installed NextCloud 14. Since i already run a tine20 groupware solution, with a complete calendar management, i would like not to enter all dates in two systems - it would be much more comfortable to just sync the nextcloud calender with the external tine20 calender using a caldav address. Since NexCloud Calender offer the possiblility to sync clients against caldav i hope itā€™s not so difficult to let nextcloud calender also be a client for other resources ??

Best Regards
Harald KĆ¼ller

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You could probably hack it via the SabreDAV client mode: http://sabre.io/dav/davclient/ & http://sabre.io/dav/building-a-caldav-client/

Would be nice is this was somehow exposed in the GUI though.

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It actually is:

  • open calendar app in Nextcloud
  • click on ā€žnew subscriptionā€œ
  • enter the webcal url to the calendar you want to subscribe and click the checkmark

Done :slight_smile:
I am using this since Nextcloud 14 (maybe it was already implemented before - donā€˜t know).

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That is a one way subscription of an iCal feed, not a two way sync through CalDAV AFAIK.

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Isnā€™t that what a calendar subscription is?
Do I understand this wrong?

EDIT: I understand. The subscribed calendar should also be editable. That is not possible with what I described. Sorry for the noiseā€¦

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Hi,
This works for iCal.
What is needed and told here is about CalDav.
Thanks, and best regards.

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Hi Bernie_O,
I understand that what is needed is a CalDav client for the Calendar app. Not an iCal, but a CalDav.
I donā€™t know if there is something already done in order to integrate NextCloud apps such as Calendar, Contacts and Tasks with CalDav/CardDav providers.
Do you or anybody else know something about this feature? Itā€™s pretty basic, but cannot find anything about it, Iā€™m googling this for some time with no good resultsā€¦
Thanks, and best regards,
HeCSa.

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I donā€˜t.
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Afaik that function can only be implemented by using an external program like vdirsyncer.

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Hi,
The idea is good, but this software is a command line tool to sync between a server and a local filesystem.
It could be a starting point of study if there is no integration planned for NextCloud Calendar and CalDav/CardDav server. But there is a lot of code to be written to have a product in place for this feature.
Thanks j-ed!
Best regards,
HeCSa.

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Now you know your solution ? ; you can share your answer now

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It is a bit disappointing that this function is missing. I would like to ā€œmirrorā€ our group calendar to our nextcloud server but that seems to be impossible.