JCalPro Facebook Events Integration
JCalPro Facebook Events Integration
I'm attempting to use the JCalPro Import tools to automatically import a Facebook page's events. There are three issues however, and I am hoping to find out if they can be resolved on JCal's side, or if they are issues/limitations with Facebook's API.
1. Using the JCal import tool and the Facebook export events URL, you can only import a Facebook user's events, not a Facebook page's events. There are Joomla extensions that can pull a Facebook page's events based off it's page ID. Is there some way JCal can import a Facebook page's events instead of a user's export events URL?
2. Importing a Facebook event creates an event in JCal that is 3 hours later than the event in Facebook. Is this a JCal bug or a Facebook bug?
3. Using the import tools, JCal does not automatically detect new Facebook events. So each time a new event is created, you have to import the event in the JCal backend. Is there some way JCal can automatically add new Facebook events?
Your answers and/or solutions are greatly appreciated! Thank you!
- hathway
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Re: JCalPro Facebook Events Integration
hathway wrote:
1. Using the JCal import tool and the Facebook export events URL, you can only import a Facebook user's events, not a Facebook page's events. There are Joomla extensions that can pull a Facebook page's events based off it's page ID. Is there some way JCal can import a Facebook page's events instead of a user's export events URL?
JCalPro simply imports the iCal file you give it, it should not matter what the source
hathway wrote:
2. Importing a Facebook event creates an event in JCal that is 3 hours later than the event in Facebook. Is this a JCal bug or a Facebook bug?
I suspect that the timezone of the facebook user does not match that of Joomla/JCal Pro. JCal Pro can be sensitive to mismatched joomla server time (Global Configuration - Server ) and JCal Pro time (Settings - Environment). Maybe you need to change these by 3 hours to make the calendars match (or maybe it is a facebook profile issue)
hathway wrote:
3. Using the import tools, JCal does not automatically detect new Facebook events. So each time a new event is created, you have to import the event in the JCal backend. Is there some way JCal can automatically add new Facebook events?
This is on the to do list for future versions of JCal Pro 3 for J1.7+ but not a feature of JCal Pro 2 for J1.5
I hope this answers your questions
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