@Stormbringer:

whatever rocks your world man. but to me, my palm desktop is so outdated. I use on a day, 3 different computers, and I got tired of trying to sync them. once, I synced them, and got a bunch of duplicate entries. Have you ever tried to remove duplicates? It's a big headache.

So for me, gcal is a great answer, with its text messaging alarm feature.

qrius

Not impressed. I don't understand the love affair with GTricks and iTricks. Maybe I'm too comfortable with my Palm Desktop, with its contacts, to-do lists and calendar (add e-mail and you've got mini-Outlook), and the fact that it synchronizes nicely with the Palm device itself so I have my alarms and reminders right next to me, I don't have any use for that stuff. Oh, and the Palm Desktop is a free download, period, if you want a decent application even if you don't have a Palm.

Stormbringer

@bubi73:Thanks for this tip!
Works on ND 7.0

toddkravos

I gave up on google calendar when nothing recurring worked either way...I wanted to use GCal as my main calendar app, and just sync it to my work Outlook....well forget about that noise...anything recurring never worked. Didn't work the other way either.

Unfortunately, due to the integration of a lot of my work into Outlook, I am pretty much sticking with it. Outlook 2k7 is actually pretty good so it works for me.

Will end up using this for the personal calendar I think though....

tohanry

To sync Lotus Notes calendar and Gcal:

1. Open Lotus Notes Calendar to view
2. Open Gcal, click "Manage calendars"
3. Select the calendar you want to sync
4. For My Calendars only: Scroll to the private address section,click on the green "ical" box and drag it over to your Lotus calendar. (note: do not click on the "ical" box to have the link pop up and drag the link, it will not work!)
5. For Public Calendars: Scroll to the calendar address section,click on the green "ical" box and drag it over to your Lotus calendar. (note: do not click on the "ical" box to have the link pop up and drag the link, it will not work!)

Not sure if this works on less than 7.0.3 though. Nice thing is that Notes will not duplicate already scheduled events next time the same calendar is imported. Overall, it's a manual sync, but only takes a couple of seconds.

bubi73

@rdb78: I had the same problem. To fix it, I made sure I had my email, not just the part before the @gmail.com, as the username, then it worked fine.

TimmyGUNZ

I'm stuck with Lotus Notes at work but I found Companion Link for Google Calendar
[www.companionlink.com] that will push your work calendar to a google calendar. It, unfortunately, will cost you $30

If you want the luxury route, pop for the $100 full version [www.companionlink.com] like I did and you can automate the process. I setup a batch script that windows scheduler kicks of at noon and 6:00pm each day so it's fully automated for me.

Oh, and Lotus Notes sucks, hardcore. ANYONE who willingly implements it should be beaten with a 2x4 spiked with rusty nails.

aka_bigred

In iCal, it keeps telling me my password is incorrect, but I swear it's right.

rdb78

@cdrobin12: Why don't you just export your Yahoo Calendar, import it into Google and just be done with the Yahoo one?

TimmyGUNZ

I'd like to sync my yahoo calender with my google calender. Any idea's? I've been entrenched into my yahoo calender for way too long.......

cdrobin12

@TimmyGUNZ:

I believe it does, but use the free mail2web for push on your iphone and save some pennies

AndiC

thanks a lot... i sync it with my outlook,,

brudo

biggest problem with the gcal sync to outlook is that it only will sync your primary calendar. However, you can view any other calendars in 'read-only' mode (OL2007 only) by opening up your accounts settings, going to the 'internet calendars' tab and adding the ical address of any other calendar you want. You can then overlay those calendars onto your own.

Like i said, the biggest problem with that is that it will only 2-way sync your primary account calendar in google.

TechTalk WRLR 98.3FM

My read of the comments and help at Google tells me that multi-computer syncing is still a problem (I sync between two computers and my Windows Mobile phone). Until I hear of some users pulling this off successfully, and until I can sync tasks, I'm sticking with Plaxo.

onesix18

If you're on Exchange Server and having trouble, check your email account settings for the exchange server and check "Use Cached Exchange Mode". Works for me.

bmcgar45

The name of this article needs to be changed from: "How to Sync Any Desktop Calendar with Google Calendar" to "How to Sync Some Desktop Calendars with Google Calendar"

With Mac 10.4.11 I can sync (read: subscribe) from Google to iCal but not from iCal to Google. In other words, I can read from my desktop calendar but not make changes to it. Or, I can use iCal and not have it sync to Google Calendar. So, "How to Sync Any Desktop Calendar with Google Calendar" just ain't so!

CrimsonCrow

Does anyone know how to sync Novell GroupWise with GCal?

Benjo

No love for Lotus Notes? It's only used by about a quarter of corporate users, or some 100MM active email addresses.

iMike

I love Plaxo. See here:

[thecorporatehack.blogspot.com]

Does the sync business behind-the-scenes and perfectly. Now if only the iPhone/MobileMe thing was figured out..!

jon-thecorporatehack

@PapaGamer:

Here's what the Provider wiki says ([wiki.mozilla.org]

I want to be able to edit my calendars while offline!
This is only partially possible. If you open the calendar properties dialog by right clicking in your calendar list, you can enable the "Cache". This means you will be able to see your events while in offline mode.

It is not possible to change events while you are offline at current.

Guru-Dude

How can you do this over multiple users? I'd like my wife to be able to have access to the calendar too and auto-sync the updates.

TimmyGUNZ

@PapaGamer:

Just followed the directions...

Guru-Dude

Almost forgot! Sync Google contacts with Thunderbird with Zindus:

[addons.mozilla.org]

There you go - contacts and calendar in one place.

Guru-Dude

@Guru-Dude: I'd love to find out how you actually get that, then. I'm using Provider with Lightning and, when I'm offline, I get nada. Followed the directions just as above...still, nothing.

PapaGamer

Can I totally recommend CalGoo over the default Google Calendar Sync? Its great for multiple calendars.

I have two computers, a personal desktop and a work laptop. I also have an iPhone. I keep two calendars, a personal calendar, and a work calendar.

My primary (Personal) calendar on my home computer (Outlook 2007) is sync'd to a google calendar using CalGoo. I then have a secondary calendar on my home computer (Work), that is sync'd to another google calendar.

On my laptop, the Work Calendar is the primary calendar, and stays sync'd with the work calendar. The home calendar is the secondary calendar. This means that any invitation that comes into my work email gets automatically added to my work calendar, and invitations to my home email get added to my home calendar.

All this, and both calendars sync to my iPhone via iTunes. Its quite glorious.

JeffDrake

I've done this, and it's working great in iCal - thanks for the guide, since yesterday I'd about decided to stick with BusySync because it looked too complicated. But can anyone help me with getting my Birthdays calendar (which is piped from the address book) to sync with GCal?

m_s

Works great with Thunderbird/Lightning both directions. Contrary to what one said above, T'Bird/L'ning will display it all offline.

Also, you can sync Evolution under Ubuntu with Conduit.

Guru-Dude

Does anyone know how this works if you're a MobileMe subscriber? Is it possible to set it up so any changes I make to my calendar via Google Calendar will auto push to my phone, and vice versa?

TimmyGUNZ

Looks like Outlook does/doesn't work with GCal Sync with or without Exchange, depending on if you're lucky.
For me, I've tried it with outlook with no exchange and outlook 2007 and it doesn't work. Firewall? Proxy? IIRC there's nowhere to set this up in GCal Sync.
In October we go Exchange. I'll try again then. :-D

pobox90210

I just added Lightning to Thunderbird last night and I was wondering if I could sync it to Google calendar for easy access.

This is yet another reason why I love lifehacker.

damnflanders

@PC_Pal68

For syncing Google Calendar with Palm Desktop Calendar, I use CompanionLink for Google. Its not free - runs about $30 but it does work flawlessly. Works with a regular Google calendar and also works with Calendars in Google Apps for Domains. Will sync with multiple calendars on the Google side - not just your main one.

greg-c

My Sync2 app. with Outlook 2007 is way mach better than Google Calendar sync freebie.
No Outlook disturbance at all. Multiple folders, multiple Google accounts, any Outlook versions, etc...
www.sync2.com

outlook_user

I used to use rainlendar, but stopped. A two way sync between that kind of desktop calendar and gcal would be nice. IS there a post on that?

aidan.cage

My Outlook 2007 on Exchange server here at work and my GC sync fine (and has been working fine for several months now).

dudehead

@superunlikely: hey no proglem. I'm glad that running a simple "Install, choose calendar, sync" was actually simple.

caedus

WOW WOW WOW!

This is epic! I often remote desktop to see my outlook calendar but with the gcalendar integration this is just way better!

unruled

Here's my challenge: how do I get a Yahoo!Groups calendar into my gCal? One-way synch would be fine, as long as gCal continues to update events as changes are made to the Yahoo. Suggestions? (Thx.)

Guest

What about lotus notes :((

el_lasso

Is there any way in iCal to move an event from one calendar to another without deleting and recreating it?

Also, it's kind of ridiculous that each calendar is in it's own account. Is this iCal or Google?

Mollari

@caedus: Right. If it works for you, it must have no bugs at all. Thanks for the valuable input.

I have Outlook 2003/Exchange and I have problems with recurring events that were originally scheduled more than a month before the first sync. They just don't appear. Also any items that were originally scheduled more than a month ago and then change on Exchange do not get changed on Google.

superunlikely

Is this only on Leopard iCal? I'm still doing it Tiger-style, but this could be the final slap to the face I need to go to the Apple Store tomorrow.

dmang88

This solution isn't that great on iCal. If you maintain multiple calendars, each one is assigned to a "separate server", and you can't move events from one server to another. So, for instance, I have Work, Personal, and Work-Private. If I create an event for Work, but later realize that "discussion of worker watching porn on computer" probably should be a topic listed on the calendar, I have to delete the event and add it to the other calendar instead of simply switching the calendar. This seems to be a problem with iCal, since you can do this on the gcal server.

I'm hoping I'm wrong and someone will tell me how to make this work better.

Mollari

I'd be very cautious about using this to sync with my work Outlook calendar. Items in my work Outlook calendar could contain business sensitive information that I really don't want stored on Google's servers for them to search through, or beamed unencrypted across the internet if I happen to forget to use https to view my google calendar. It is for this reason, I use google calendar ONLY for personal things, and my Outlook calendar ONLY for work related items.

natet

I bought SyncMyCal before Google offered Sync and it has worked seamlessly with my Outlook 2003 calender.

[www.syncmycal.com]

zakharm

Google CalDAV is still a bit incomplete

AndiC

@BriNumber8: if you use plaxo, you can keep ical, gcal, and entourage all in sync. once entourage is set up to sync with sync services you end up with an "Entourage" calendar in ical. use this as your main calendar. set plaxo up to sync with gcal and make sure the plaxo prefpane is set to sync calendars. presto!

jedverity

Anyone know of anything for lotus notes??

vtbrnco

This worked great for me. I've been looking for a way to get my work outlook calendar to be accessible in other places. My work proxy blocks MobileMe, so that wasn't an option.

Has anyone found a way to make this work with the iPhone with 2 way sync yet?

msomers

I've been using Spanning Sync for a while and it's been very reliable at two-way Google/iCal syncs. It's not free, but it's a little better tested (it seems) than Google's brand-new CalDAV. Plus, their new 2.0 beta also syncs contacts from Apple's Address Book (including contact pictures).

palestrinajeff

@drsphincter: Then you're doing it wrong. I have My Outlook 2003 with exchange calendar syncing fine...

caedus

But I use Outlook 2002. How can I do this w/o paying to upgrade my Outlook?

hanakj

@PC_Pal68

I just discovered that Yahoo! has a feature called "Yahoo! Auto-sync" that will sync your Yahoo! calendar with Palm Desktop 4.1.4. It also claims to sync with Outlook and Outlook Express.

I am using Vista, and I downgraded my Palm Desktop 6.2.2 to 4.1.4 to get it to work (4.1.4 _will_ work with Vista), and I managed to sync with my yahoo calendar, but for some reason yahoo advanced all my events by 4 hours. That might just be a difference in the clocks on my laptop and my Yahoo account, so I am still working on it.

Yahoo! Calendar will also let you Import a Palm Desktop .dba file (as well as export) and you can also export as .csv (for Outlook and others).

Anyway... long story short, you can also use yahoo calendar as a go-between to convert to and from .csv.

I don't know if Google calendar supports .csv imports/syncs, but i also found this: [manas.tungare.name]

This site (supposedly, haven't tried yet) lets you take a .csv file from Yahoo! Calendar and convert it to iCal, which _might_ then work with Windows Calendar (it makes a .ics file). It also apparently works for iPod and iPhone (if you like that sorta thing).

Sounds convoluted, but it's the easiest work-arodun I've seen so far. Maybe that would work with Google Calendar as well?

mjschmidt

@dualsub2006: I use Remember the Milk for my task manager/GTD organizer. Firefox has a few add-ons for it to integrate it with either Gcal or Gmail. Works great! I also use a simple converter to convert all my Apple Address Book contacts into a file that can be exported to Gmail. That way I have Google Apps (Gmail, Gcal, Contacts) and RTM all synchronized with my desktop apps (Apple Mail, Address Book, iCal).

hectordejesus

1) GCal will sync with Outlook as long as your Outlook is not using an Exchange store. You don't have to have your GMail account set up in Outlook in order to sync, you just can't have your Outlook Calendar in anything other than a local .PST file.

2) Provider DOES NOT SYNC GCal with Sunbird/Thunderbird. Rather, is displays GCal within the S/T interface. If you're offline--fuggedaboutit. To actually SYNC GCal with S/T, you have to use GCalDaemon, which is somewhat complicated to set up and, I found, rather buggy.

PapaGamer

Still stuck with having to use Lotus Notes at work and Outlook on my PDA. WOuld have been great if I could have sync'd with Notes, then I could just sync with outlook to get it to the PDA.

For there to be so many companies still hooked on Lotus Notes I find it interesting that there isn't more information out there for manipulating the information like there is for Outlook.

Stephen

Evolution?

fatalbush

Also looking for a way to sync with Entourage. Anyone?

snacky99

Is there a way to sync with Entourage?

BriNumber8

@Adam Pash: Yea, I just noticed that. Once I did that, everything works great. Thanks.

Letsgohokies

I get highly urinated off when Google releases something like this and fails to release a simple task list or contact sync.

I have to continue to use Plaxo to keep everything up to date. And yes, I pay for Google Apps, so I am not just trying to get things for free.

Google needs to do something useful instead of releasing things like this. Tasks, with sync. Contact sync. The thing can never actually compete with Outlook/Exchange while these two items are left unfilled.

dualsub2006

@Letsgohokies: The setup creates a new calendar, so I'm guessing all of your old calendar information is still in your old calendar and won't be synced. To get it synced up with Gcal, you'd have to move all the old events to the new synced calendar you just set up.

Adam Pash

this is a big step forward! Unfortunatly I can't sync the calender in ical with my phone anymore. When I select the calender from ical in isync, it says that it can't process a 'online' calender.. hope this will be fixed also! That way I can sync my phone, mac and google seamless!

jeroentje

The calendar sync works great! On a related note, does anyone know how to get Address Book.app to actually sync with the contacts? I did the plist hack and was given the option to sync my Google contacts, but how do I trigger it?

andrewheiss

@drsphincter: I agree. I couldn't get GSync working with our Exchange based Outlook. I guess a stand alone Outlookg with single PST files would be no problem, but in a work environment? Forget it...

Frank Meeuwsen

Google Calendar Sync does not work properly with 64-bit versions of XP and Vista (At least, I've found it to be intermittent and unreliable).

xatlasm

Could this work with Palm Desktop? I've lost hope for a direct Google Calendar to Palm sync. If this new option works with Palm Desktop, I wouldn't mind the "extra step".

PC_Pal68

I still can't find how to sync "Windows Calendar" with google calendar :(

I think I might go back to Thunderbird :P

LifesSweetDrug

@zakharm: Ooo, thanks a lot for the reminder. I'm adding a mobile section to the post.

Adam Pash

Google Calendar Sync SUCKS for those of you trying to Sync your WORK Outlook account with your Gmail account. In order to sync properly, your Outlook account MUST BE your GMAIL ACCOUNT. This is from Google, not me. So it's junk right now IMHO. Fix that and then I'll use it.

drsphincter

I used the Thunderbird/Lightning instructions, and it will sync all new events, but doesn't sync events that were already entered in Lightning. Does anyone know a way to sync everything?

Letsgohokies

Awesome writeup. Thunderbird/Lightning instructions work as advertised, and I am a happy man. :)

Will have to test this on Outtaluck 2007 later to see if my fiancee can set this up at work.

It_Figures

But, I don't want to synch my Google calendar with iCal. I want to sync iCal calendars with Google. I have 8 or so calendars in iCal all showing at the same time. They are different categories. I'd like them all to show up on Google Calendar. I suppose I am the only one that has a Personal Calendar and Church Calendar and Travel and Birthdays and Holidays all as separate calendars in iCal (and so on my Palm). No one else really does categories in calendaring? -fred

ShubhadaKaploodle

@zakharm: My Kingdom for an iPhone version.

badgerz

I don't use Google anything(besides the search) but this is pretty awesome.

spimoles

sweeeeeeeeeeeeet

superbryant

Bring it over to your Blackberry with Google Calendar Sync Mobile
[www.google.com]

zakharm

Is there any way to sync multiple Google Calendars with Outlook? Last I checked Google Calendar Sync will only sync your personal one (not others that you have added).

CSHokie

I hope this doesn't come across as link grubbing, but I think it applies to the original post.

I wrote a post on
How to Sync KDE-PIM With Google Calendar

It's actually pretty easy, using OpenSync.

chipbennett

I love Google Calendar. I have been wanting to sync it up with a desktop app for some time but hadn't had any luck. My PC has Windows Calendar. I have been able to "subscribe" to my Google calendars but it is a read only set-up. I didn't see anything above on how to get around that.

A little while ago the How-to Geek did a post on how to Change Thunderbird Start Page to any web page that you wanted ( [blogs.howtogeek.com] ). My immediate thought was to use Google Calendar. My first obstacle was it was asking me to sign-in, when I did it launched the Calendar in Firefox. Someone suggested installing the Thunderbrowse extension for Thunderbird which I did. This didn't solve my problem either. I ran into a problem with cookies not being enabled.

Anyone have any tips on how to solve that dilemma?

jusipi

I use oggsync.com to sync my google calendar with my windows mobile over the air.

bobbyleong

any thoughts on how to sync the sidekick desktop calender w/ gcal?

also, here's a feature request for gcal and thunderbird, I have a meeting the first and third Monday of every month, in the sidekick calender when I entered the first one in the repeats menu it asked weekly, monthly, 1st Monday every month one click the whole year filled in gcal and thunderbird no love.

eatrip

@Mollari:
You can drag 'n drop between calendars. If you "edit", you can't pick a different calendar. But I have successfully just dragged a calendar event to one of the others listed on the left. I tried this between Gcal and a local iCal and back again. I'm assuming that it'll work fine w/ two Gcals.

barthrh

Anyone try syncing a Google Apps calendar with Thunderbird/Lightning?

TomDavis

I already had this set up before the post ;)

You can use the XML or the iCal link in Settings to sync with Thunderbird/Sunbird; they both work equally well.

komputerwiz

The "Drag to Lotus Notes-trick" did'nt work on 7.01 Version.
Not for me at least.

blorro

they really need to add multiple calendar sync to their outlook sync proggie.

JaVae

Is it me, or anyone mentioned that the GCal Sync will work for iCal, only if you have leopard? I'm still stuck in Tiger, and I can't find an Account Tab in the iCal preference anywhere. Talk about send me into heaven before shooting me back down on the ground again. =(

opersai

The problem is that Google Calendar sends a reminder by mail to my colleagues of work if I sync my meetings :-(

Any workaround?

himatech

You didn't even mention Palm, yet you wrote as if everyone was included. Palm is a fairly significant segment of the market to exclude.

Apopheniac

if you want more flexible syncing with ical try this [spanningsync.com]

i used it for a while, its great

gorilly

I'm still looking for a free solution to sync my Google Calendars (yes plural) with my Windows Mobile 6.1 phone. I have looked at some of the commercial alternatives, but feel they are either over priced or I have had issues with the trial so I didn't purchase. It just doesn't seem like it would be a very difficult task to have my calendars sync up with my WM phone... and I agree, why is Google doing this piece by piece? Can't we sync contacts, calendar, tasks and notes just like Yahoo offers via their Yahoo Go service (free)? I want a Google Go service!!!

mobilejray

You just broke my heart. I'm stuck with that big P.O.S. Lotus Notes at work. I thought that you would have a way to sync Lotus Notes to Google Calendar.
Please help!
Does anybody out there know how to do this?

vitamincm

Not sure if this was covered here on Lifehacker or not, but you can sync your Google Calendar with the calendar on your iPod Touch or iPhone as well.

As far as I know, I am using the firmware 1.1.4 as of posting this (may update to the 2.0 here soon, still debating but that is another story).

Anyway, the app is called "Nemusync" and its in the installer. And what you do is install the app, and then have the app sync your information from Google Calendar right to your device or vice versa. Its freaking awsome.

Now just think if your sharing a calendar with someone who updates it frequently, talking about the flow of information. I hope this helps for anyone who was curious to know. Like I said, I think this was also covered here on Lifehacker, so a little searching may be most helpful :D

ma5t3rw1tt

This is great! Thanks!

ICEBreaker

I also need a good tutorial on how to sync multiple google calendars with palm. (They need to be separate calendars/categories when displayed on the palm too.) Also, it was never clear to me when you do the outlook sync whether you can sync secondary google calendars to outlook too. Can you?

D Wiz

It only synchs my Subscriptions, but not my local calendars. That's pretty much useless for me.

ICEBreaker

I'm still amazed that lifehacker doesn't seem to like Airset.com

echodawg

@echodawg:
I used airset a couple years ago and now just retried it since your comment - I find it difficult to arrange my multiple calendars in to the settings. Although I can have different color "tabs", when I lay the calendars on top of each other, they are all the same color and do not indicate to me visually what they are for. Airset has a lot of great features and I think is the direction Google needs to go, however, I can set it up without too many issues, but I think the average user may get confused.

mobilejray

That was a bad post. I had followed the steps in this post and forgotten! So I am adding a remote calendar, but it isn't pulling any content down from Google.

It is adding content I add in iCal to the web-based calendar.

nad

Like @ICEbreaker said - this doesn't seem to pull Google content to a local calendar on my Mac - is that right? I have to subscribe to a Google calendar and then do this step too for two way sync?
There's got to be a way for Google to come a little further on this.

nad

Piling on: I can add a secondary gCal calendar to iCal and everything shows up right away. But I still can't get my primary calendar into iCal. No appointments show up.

nad

Facebook events can also be downloaded to Mobiles and Desktop Calendars.
Try [www.facebook.com]

Roy
[www.mixsync.com]

RoyL

i have a very robust ical calendar that i am trying to sync to my google calendar, which is currently unpopulated, but it won't two-way sync -- any suggestions? thanks.

PauletteVitulus

Does this tutorial work with google apps calendar? I cannot get it work with iCal and Google Apps Calendar for my domain.

solroger

I have a question for you folks. I currently sync bi-directionally (most things, but not all) between my Outlook calendar and my wife's Google calendar, so we know what each other is actually doing, etc. (Actually works very well, greater efficiency and also another way we stop communicating. - Just having fun)

My question is, can I also somehow sync it to my Google calendar which I use and keep in a different place that hers?

bkunzmann

awesome on the Lightening side of things! Sorted mate! Now I sync my GCal, Lightening and my BB!

dougaitken

I like Spanning Sync:

[spanningsync.com]

avgbear

Working in the financial world gives me Lotus Notes (which I don't like) so this doesn't really help me.

Instead I use "CompanionLink for Google" which seems to be a great product for syncing Lotus Calendar into Google Calendar. From there I use Goosync to sync my Nokia N82 with Google Calendar. Works fine though :-)

Varming

As suggested by Zakharm, I've found SyncMyCal to be very good.
I am using the mobile version to sync my google calendar directly with my windows mobile device. The free version allows syncing multiple calendars whereas alternatives like goosync and oggsync require the pro version.
The only limitation of the free/lite version of SyncMyCal Mobile is that it only syncs events +/- 3 days (however, recurring events are fine).
Goosync and Oggsync's premium pro service are yearly subscriptions, whereas SyncMyCal Mobile is a one-time fee, at around the same price.

wongtam

Nifty. Gettin closer to the utopian place where everything talks to everything. Seriously...if we spent as much time coordinating info as we did thinking about other things...think what could get done! It's a process...

Why won't my sub-calendars in gcal sync w/Sunbird?

Viscouse

I'm excited to hear about this, because I use Thunderbird/Lightning with my Sun Java work calendar and now should be able to use it with my Google Calendar also. However I can't make it work with the instructions listed above. I've added the Provider Extension. When I create a new calendar, it does not give me the Google Calendar option. It only gives me ICS, CalDAV or Sun Java. I have selected CalDAV and inserted the Google Calendar URL as indicated. It shows up as a calendar, but I can't see any of the appointments. Can anyone help, or point me to a place that can? Thanks!

WendyRobin

I've added my Google Calendar to iCal, and that's fine (although a little irritating how it doesn't sync what's currently in iCal with Google.)

However, Google Calendar isn't showing up on the Calendar app on my iPhone (which syncs OTA from MobileMe). Is there anything I can do to get this to show up, or is this not compatible yet?

cyberbolt

I like Google Calendar, but use Exchange Activesync on a Palm Treo 650. As I travel a lot, and do not have a VPN to the office, what I really need is synchronization of my Google Calendar through Outlook Web Access with my Exchange calendar on the server. Does anyone have any recommendations for that?

When I am in the office, I use SyncIt to synchronize my Outlook calendar with my Google calendar.

piet8stevens

This is great, but works with iCal [3] or greater. If you have iCal [2] 'read OS X.4' you'll need CalGoo. -- Keeping my emails brief. 5 sentences?

ValdemarPhocus

This post needs to be updated to explain how to sync Google calendar and Outlook when you have multiple calendars. Right now, Google Calendar Sync only supports one calendar (which is pretty weak, if you ask me).

HilliardErginus

I checked out Calgoo, and even installed it, but it does not work with Lotus Notes 6.x.
Anyone else running Notes 6.x find something to do this?

There are a few people where I work that got something to connect Outlook to the domino server. But I have not had the chance to find out how that was done, and then try it myself (too busy when I'm working...mostly too busy).

uzziah0

What's the split of people using MS Outlook 2000, 2003, and 2007? I still use 2000 at home and work, so bummer that I can't use this new sync.

ApolloAlcyone

I submitted a question here about trying the sync with Notes, but it has not appeared (perhaps because I am new?).

I followed the instructions to attempt to sync Lotus Nites, but it may not be working because I am on 6.x verison of Notes.

But, I followed the given instructions, and from manage calendar, I could not find an ical anything.
I tried grabbing my calendar (it is titled by my name, I only have one calendar). I clicked and dragged it to my Notes calendar.
The first time it request some certificates, which I allowed.
The second time it churned for 10 to 15 seconds, locking Notes and my browser, but no calendar events were exchanged.

Is this what should happen, and it just didn't work because I have an old Notes?

uzziah0

bubi73,

~~~To sync Lotus Notes calendar and Gcal:

I tried your instructions to sync my Google calendar,
I have Lotus Notes 6.something, and it looks like it is trying.
The first time I tried it requested a couple of things about certificates. I allowed those thinking I was on the right path.
I tried it again, and it locks up Notes and my browser for a couple of seconds, but no sync takes place.

It could be that I am on an older version on Notes.
But, to be sure, when I click on manage calendars, you say to click and drag the green ical,
When I click manage calendars, I am on the Calendars tab,
then I have only 1 calendar (it is title my name), I click and drag that and it tries to do something, but nothing is synced.
Is that what you were talking about with ical?
There is nothing explicitly called ical on my calendar page, and I looked at the different tabs.

If that is correct, then I suppost this will not work for my version of Notes!

uzziah0

I was just trying to do something like this last weekend.

For those who want to sync between Rainlendar and Google calendar, trust me, nothing works better than GCalDaemon until now. This link from lifehacker works as a guide to install and make it work just fine: [lifehacker.com]

Now I have Sunbird, Rainlendar and Google calendar integrated. Now I want a smartphone to carry it all with me. Any suggestions?

jacquelinee

anyone try it with Evolution on linux?

csa819

USE CAUTION when syncing Google calendar with your work calendar! I sync my home and work Outlook accounts via Google Calendar, which I will admit is very handy and has robbed my PDA of it's last vestiges of usefulness.

However, be aware that Google Calendar adds the owner of the synced Google calendar as an attendee at ALL of the meetings you organize through Outlook. (you don't have to "accept" the invite through your Gmail account, it just auto-adds your account name into the list of Outlook attendees) This isn't that big of a deal if you have the standard first.last@gmail.com configuration, but I was using my personal account. All of a sudden I had work meetings set up with "Bob, Joe, Chris, Jane and superBadGirl" as attendees. Obviously I do NOT go by superBadGirl in the office, nor do I want my gmail username (and therefore pretty much my whole online life) to be common knowledge there.

I wasn't sure if canceling my attendance at the event via my Google Calendar would trigger an auto-response from "superBadGirl" to everyone on the attendee list, and I literally lost sleep in figuring out what to do about it. (I got no response via the Google Calendar help forums.)

I think this is a rather nasty and unintuitive "feature" that Google doesn't tell you about, and I liken it to the "on behalf of" info that shows up when you use other accounts from within your main Gmail account.

Now I sync via a different (first.last@gmail.com) calendar that I've set up specifically for that purpose, which is a pain because I have to log in and out of that account when I want to see my info online. But it's worth it, obviously.

Just be careful, is all I am saying.

superbadgirl

Agreed. Task sync would be great - you could sync RTM/Google Calendar Tasks/Outlook/Windows Mobile phone pretty seamlessly in that case.

crewez

@superbadgirl: On top of all that, it only syncs to your primary google calendar -- meaning that I can't keep my "personal" calendar separate from my "work" calendar -- which is my most loved feature in gCal!

** sigh **

I guess we'll have to hope and pray for a good update?

caitlindimareoliver

Hello, I just wonder if Google calendar uses a database to stored the calendars. If so, Is it possible to access straight to that database? I'm looking for a iCal server, iCal sync SQL back-end. Thx Mauricio

MarcusAegimius

Right now a calendar item that I add to my Google calendar appears in iCal, but an item added in iCal does not appear in my Google calendar. Is this the way it works? I was under the impression that bidirectional syncing meant that an item added in either calendar would appear in the other. Also, I could not add a secondary calendar from Google into iCal as per the instructions. When I copied and pasted the id for the calendar into the Server Options box and clicked "Add" the message that the Calendar with that id could not be found. Are these problems on my end or a temporary glitch? Thanks

ByronOrr

@superbadgirl: I'm assuming that you have it set up to do a two-way sync? I currently have Google Calendar Sync set to push everything for work to Google Calendar.

@caitlindimareoliver: Agreed. I ended up changing my default calendar to my work calendar and moving all my personal stuff to other calendars. Assuming you don't want your personal stuff on your work calendar, this should work just fine - can be a bit painful to move stuff around, though...

GAH! As I was writing this, Corporate IT just sent me an email saying I need to uninstall Google Calendar Sync! BLAST!

sammysam