I would love to see an integration with Slate (admissions CRM) so we could pull feeds of admissions events into LW as Linked Calendars. Currently there does not appear to be a way to pull a public-facing iCal feed out of Slate. Slate is used by tons of colleges so I would think this would be a useful feature for many LiveWhale clients! Thanks for considering.
Thanks Jen! I know we have at least one or two schools able to pull ICAL feeds from Slate and use them as LiveWhale Linked Calendars.
If it helps, the syntax I’m seeing used looks something like
https://apply.myschool.edu/manage/event/ical?cmd=feed&identity=xxxxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx&signature=xxxxx
The Slate ICAL out of the box doesn’t contain a ton of info, looks like, but could be a great starting point for getting those admissions events syncing with your LiveWhale Calendar. Hope this helps!
Hey Karl, thanks.
We did try using that exact syntax for a linked calendar but it did not work. We set the Linked Calendar up so event links would go directly to the original event page in Slate, but when I click the event on the LW calendar I’d get a Slate error page saying my email address was not authorized as if I had to have a Slate login to see it. And if I set it up to pull the event info into LW, nothing would come over, I assume for the same authorization reason.
If you don’t mind referring me to the LW clients who may be using it successfully I’d love to chat with them & figure out how they are making it work!
Hmm I see – there’s one currently onboarding school who I think may be having the same issue with Slate (that is, Slate publishing event links that only work for their logged-in users, not the general public). I’ll put a pin in this until we’re able to see if they have any ideas coming from Slate on what’s worked for them.
If anyone else is successfully using Slate feeds in this (or another) way, please chime in! Otherwise we’ll keep tabs on this in the meantime.