Chamilo LCMS Connect » Personal Calendar

Ical-import still poses problems, esp. for repetitive items. I have imported my Outlook calendar e.g. and all events recurring on Tuesday are strangely enough put on Thursday in Chamilo. Single events seem to work all right.

Are you talking about iCal importing or iCal displaying ? Importing only supports a very limited subset of iCal properties, of which repeating on a certain weekday isn't one.

Import. Still if something is not supported, it should not lead to outright faults.
Question is whether such a very limited subset is of any use to the end user.
Does export do any better?

I think I mentionned this at the previous Dev-meeting: iCal is either best implemented (almost) completely or not at all. It will automatically lead to seemingly incorrect results if not completely implemented. In the case of your example my best guess would be that the original event was created on a Thursday but configured to repeat on a Tuesday. Since the import can only read the "weekly" property it will repeat the even weekly ... but on the originally used weekday, not the one you configured. There is no easy way to prevent this.

• Extend our internal calendar event content object
• Add multiple "simple" calendar events for one repeating iCal event

I'm not that big a fan of either solution, but the first one is just a little better then the second as far as data consistency goes. (as well as export possibilities)

The probem should not occur with exports since all currently supported repeating options for calendar events are extensively covered by the iCal format.