Hi all,
We want to add a link in our email listing that allows people to add events they are interested in to their calendar of choice (e.g., Outlook calendar). I know that LiveWhale provides an ICS file for individual events, but to my knowledge, those don’t update automatically if I change the event’s time or date in LiveWhale. Is there a way to subscribe to an individual event?
Thanks in advance!
Noah
Hi Noah,
Great question: it’s not always obvious depending on how your personal calendar (Google, Outlook, etc) is set up, but the iCal (.ics) files that LiveWhale generates from the API (any /live/ical/events… URLs) can be accessed in two ways:
1. Download the file and upload/import it into your calendar – in this case, it wouldn’t receive updates made to the underlying events.
2. Add the URL to your calendar as an external calendar feed (“subscribe”) – in this case, changes to the events should be published to the LWC iCal URL and get synced with your calendar software.
Sometimes workflow #2 can be a bit confusing, I think (since some softwares want to call it “Adding a Calendar” or something, and it can seem strange to add a calendar with just 1 event on it) but that is the best way I know of to keep those details in sync. Hope this helps!