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Holiday Calendar iCal #973

Closed tiffanyaldrich closed 3 years ago

tiffanyaldrich commented 3 years ago

Good morning,

I noticed the iCal that has been provided previously to add holidays to Dakboard isn't including any holidays after Christmas Day. The iCal I am using is http://ical.mac.com/ical/US32Holidays.ics. This is what is on the help page when I click on the link after trying to link my Google holiday calendar. Do you know if there is an updated ics link that I should be using to get the holidays to populate for anything after Christmas Day? It doesn't even have Christmas Eve which I think is very odd. Thank you for your assistance with this issue.

cocarrig commented 3 years ago

Hi Tiffany,

I did some research into the problem you reported today and was able to determine that the (http://ical.mac.com/ical/US32Holidays.ics) has not yet in fact been updated for 2021 as you have indicated.

I believe I have located a suitable alternative for you and others that lists US holidays going into 2021, but does not still list 'Christmas Eve' unfortunately. http://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/76/US_Holidays.ics

I hope this helps, please reach out if you need anything else.

tiffanyaldrich commented 3 years ago

Good afternoon,

Thank you for your research and response. I did have a follow up question. Do you know why we can’t link the Google Holidays calendar to the Dakboard calendar like we can our normal Google calendar? The option is there under the Google calendar link but it is grayed out. Do you think that could be a feature that is looked into for a future update? That would solve the issue of having to use a different source for the holidays.

Thanks again for your help. I will go ahead and try the new ics path you suggested.

Have a great holiday season.

Tiffany

On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 2:21 PM cocarrig notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi Tiffany,

I did some research into the problem you reported today and was able to determine that the (http://ical.mac.com/ical/US32Holidays.ics) has not yet in fact been updated for 2021 as you have indicated.

I believe I have located a suitable alternative for you and others that lists US holidays going into 2021, but does not still list 'Christmas Eve' unfortunately. http://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/76/US_Holidays.ics

I hope this helps, please reach out if you need anything else.

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cocarrig commented 3 years ago

Hi Tiffany,

We touch on this in the following support article. The short of it is that google does not make the API available to pull that calendar's information:

Google does not provide access to the built-in Birthdays, Contacts and Holidays calendars via their API. So unfortunately, there's no way to display those calendars on DAKboard. However, we do have a few work-arounds posted below.

The support article continues to explain the other options for these calendars we have discussed.

https://dakboard.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/35000151980

I hope this helps, please reach out if you need anything else.

danking6 commented 3 years ago

Closing this issue as @cocarrig has posted a new support article and calendar URL.