Google Calendar syncing

tford

Does anyone have Google Calendar syncing to AwareIM?

rob_h7

Yup, lots of users syncing away, it's lovely.

tford

Thanks Rob!

Are you running V6 or V7?

rob_h7

V7 - You stuck or just thinking of giving it a go?

tford

Hi Rob,

I'm stuck .. really appreciate you sharing what you know about getting it up and running!

I went to https://code.google.com/apis/console per the instructions on the query of the Appointment object where I set up an operation which will hold the Google Calendar Sync settings. That Google site redirected to https://console.developers.google.com/iam-admin/projects where I have this project set up (I've truncated the Project ID and Project number in the screen shot):

api settings.jpg

I'm guessing Google must have changed their terminology since AwareIM set this up, because I don't find the Secret in the Google interface, so I assumed the Project Number in the Google screen is what AwareIM needs ???. As you can see in my initial testing, I am using System Settings rather than syncing the calendar by user for now:

Sync settngs.jpg

Next I published the BSV and populated the System Settings values with the Google Project ID and Google Project Number as shown in the screen shot above. Then when running the query on the Appointment object I clicked on the Sync icon. The browser opened this window:

sync error.jpg

And eventually this arrived on the screen: "Authorization reply didn't arrive".

Any insights you can provide, Ron, would be greatly appreciated! I'm sure it's something simple.

rob_h7

Hey Tom,

Close, head into the context menu of your project & select API Manager

Once you're in there, hit credentials menu. Hit Create Credentials - type = oAuth client id with application type = Web application.

You'll need to set up an authorized origin & return url too.

So if your website is
http://tomsapp.com/AwareIM/logonAdmin.html

Your auth url will be
http://tomsapp.com

Your return url will be
http://tomsapp.com/AwareIM/req.awggl2

That'll generate an ID & Secret for you to use in Aware.

[edited, missed a step]

tford

Thanks Rob. Working through that now.

What steps does each user have to take to authorize calendar syncing to their individual Google Calendar?

rob_h7

They just hit the sync button on the calendar then it's just a button click to auth if I remember correctly.

Really simple.

Then they have a choice of syncing to Google, from Google, or both ways.

tford

So does each user just need to be logged into their own Google account on the machine they are using to access AwareIM & that's how AwareIM / Google will know where to sync the info?

rob_h7

Yup!

tford

Perfect! Thanks again, Rob!

rob_h7

No problem.