How to Display CiviCRM events on a Drupal Calendar:
How to Display CiviCRM events on a Drupal Calendar using CiviEvent’s iCal Feed and the Drupal Calendar Module:
- Pre-requisits: You’ll need an instance of CiviCRM running on Drupal, (we’re using Drupal 5.5 with CiviCRM 1.9) with CiviEvents Enabled.
- Download & Install the following Drupal modules:
- Calendar: http://drupal.org/project/calendar
- Views (required by Calendar): http://drupal.org/project/views
- Date (required by Calendar): http://drupal.org/project/date
- Go to your Module management screen ( Administer >> Site Building >> Modules )
- Enable Calendar View
- Enable Calendar iCal
- Enable all other modules required by these
- Go to the “Administer Views” screen ( Administer >> Site Building >> Views)
- Set ‘calender’ view status to ‘enabled’
- Click on the ‘add’ link next to calendar
- On the “Add a View” Screen, under Access, select all the roles you want to be able to view this calendar.
- Go to the bottom of the page and click save
- You will now see ‘calendar’ listed under ‘existing views’
- Click on the ‘calendar’ link listed in that same row or go to the calendar url, which should be http://www.yoursite.com/calendar (if you have drupal installed in the base directory) or http://www.yoursite.com/drupal/calendar (if you have drupal in it’s own directory).
- Go to your “Access Control” page. (Administer >> User Management >> Access Control)
- Under CiviCRM, make sure “register for events” is enabled for your anonymous role, and any other roles you are going to want to register for events.
- From the Calendar page, you should see the following:
- Click on the “iCal” tab, and insert the following information:
- Under “Expire iCal cache:” I recommend setting this to ‘0 sec’ for debugging purposes, and then scale back based on your traffic and update timing requirements.
- Set the Name as anything, I went with “civi” to keep it simple.
- Set the Url to your civi iCal feed. Should be something like: http://www.yoursite.com/civicrm/event/ical?reset=1&page=1 or http://www.yoursite.com/drupal/civicrm/event/ical?reset=1&page=1 .
- And that should be it! Set up a test event, and make sure it shows up on your calendar page.
this was incredibly helpful
thanks so much!
Comment by rob — May 1, 2008 @ 4:27 am
Thanks for this easy to follow tutorial, however all the times of my events are off by 7 hours (late). But if you click on the event, the time is correct.
The when I view the iCal link it saying that an event that starts at 9 am is: ” DTSTART:20080503T160000Z ”
I assume the T160000Z means 16:00 and zero seconds, im going to check global settings in CiviCRM, then search forums for issues with time.
Comment by Jesse — May 2, 2008 @ 11:33 am
Thanks for this - one problem I resolved - when putting in the ical url I had to switch to plain text editor - as my FCK editor didn’t like it.
Comment by Chris — May 16, 2008 @ 12:01 am
Hi this is binoy, iam using civicrm for the events.
can u tell me what is the use of 4th procedure
“Set the Url to your civi iCal feed. Should be something like:” ,
Iam developing my site locally, i need to use civicrm with event calendar,
But its calendar showing nothing.
What may be the problem ,
I follow your procedure,
Comment by binoy — August 19, 2008 @ 7:51 am
@Binoy,
Running locally should be no problem. The ical feed will just be relative to your base drupal path. i.e. /drupal/civicrm/event/ical?reset=1&page=1. Good luck man!
Comment by Soleer — August 25, 2008 @ 1:50 pm
@Jesse
I have no idea. Could be a problem with your server time settings? Did you figure anything out?
Comment by Soleer — August 25, 2008 @ 1:52 pm
hey,
could you please guide me how can we do this in drupal 6.6. all i need is importing an ical feed in drupal calendar.
Comment by ramki — November 4, 2008 @ 5:11 am
Thanks. This was helpful.
FYI, in the 5.2 Calendar module, the iCal and Setup tabs were moved to admin/settings/calendar . Took me a while to find that as it was only mentioned once at the end of a bug.
Comment by Alex Neth — November 30, 2008 @ 3:29 am
Hi,
I am running into problems with this. I am trying to use drupal 5.x and CiviCRM 2.0 but I am finding problems getting the ical feed to show. I activate the calendar views, and then I go to admin/settings/ical and try to put in the feed. I click submit and the page clears showing no indication that the feed has been accepter (is this normal?) After that I attempted to add an event, but it didn’t show up on the calendar.
What do I do?
Comment by Jason — February 2, 2009 @ 10:55 pm