[SOLVED] Parsing Ical not working

Scheduler
#1

HI there,

i am trying to initialize a scheduler with data from ical for testing purposes.
I’ve used the demo from https://docs.dhtmlx.com/scheduler/samples/01_initialization_loading/01_basic_init.html to setup a scheduler.

Parsing the JSON Data works fine and all is shown. But when i try to parse ical, i dont get any events.

scheduler.getEvents() shows the correct amount of events, but the objects are empty. Is there a setting how to parse the ical, so that dtstartm dtend and summary are correctly parsed?

Here my example:

scheduler.ical.parse(
“BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//dhtmlXScheduler//NONSGML v2.2//EN DESCRIPTION: BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20220411T140000 DTEND:20220411T170000 SUMMARY:Meeting END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20220415 DTEND:20220418 SUMMARY:Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20220424T090000 DTEND:20220424T100000 SUMMARY:Interview END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR”
);

I was searching all examples and the forum. I could not find anything working, where only the easy ical string is parsed and displayed.

Thanks for your advices,

CodeZero

#2

Hi,
The scheduler.ical.parse method does not load data into the scheduler, but returns an array of events (also note the correct ical format, it should be divided into lines https://docs.dhtmlx.com/scheduler/data_formats.html#ical):

const icalString = scheduler.ical.parse(
`BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//dhtmlXScheduler//NONSGML v2.2//EN
DESCRIPTION:
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20220411T140000
DTEND:20220411T170000
SUMMARY:Meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20220415
DTEND:20220418
SUMMARY:Conference
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20220424T090000
DTEND:20220424T100000
SUMMARY:Interview
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR`
);

Please use the scheduler.parse(icalString) method to load events:

scheduler.parse(icalString);

Here is an example: https://snippet.dhtmlx.com/l0pjhgmp.

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#3

Thanks its working.
My problem was really that i put Ical in one line and then didn’t got the events for the parser.

Big thanks for creating the example.

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