Google Calendar, most efficient way to display?

What would be the most efficient, easy, effective way to display my Google calendar in SL? Provide the URL or?

what is a google calender?

I've been meaning to play with this myself, so tried a few things just now. I can get a single shared calendar visible on parcel Media just by supplying the sharing URL, although it seems to default to the Month view. I managed to hack the URL to get the Week view, but that comes with scrollbars which are, of course, inoperable. I think the Agenda view might be workable, if just one day is sufficient. But I couldn't figure out any way to combine multiple group calendars into the view, which is how I always use my Google calendar page.

I also know of a supplier, MechanizedLife, that has some relevant gadgets for interacting with the Google calendar, not relying on the parcel Media.

(Rha, a Google calendar is pretty much what it sounds like: a sharable calendar one can attach to a Google account. Some Lindens maintain their office hours on one, but others have abandoned updating it and now only post to some whacky webpage somewhere, so that one isn't very reliable.)

The Mechanized Life ones do link to Google calendar but display only a few (four or so) events. I IM'ed the maker to see if he could do a larger one with maybe ten lines but he essentially told me to pound sand.

I would LOVE a nice looking, low prim board with a line for a title (venue name) and about ten events listed below. A couple of scripters have said that it should be easy to do, but I haven't seen a product from them. : /

Hmmm.... maybe it's better to just offer something that when clicked it takes you to a webpage?

If you wants to see what a Google calendar looks like inworld, there's one posted at the Forum Cartel Hangout. It's done with parcel media displaying HTML, which means that you have to have the RC viewer in order to see it.

Setup is straightforward. Pick a texture that will be on the prim when you aren't viewing the HTML (I made a texture that explained that you need to have the RC viewer and media turned on in order to see the calendar). Put it on the prim. Then put it in the parcel's media settings. Input the media URL. Click OK. The texture is replaced with the image of the HTML page. If it doesn't show up, check to be sure you have all of your client's media settings turned on (d'oh, I didn't).

Upon suggestion, I also included the ability to click on the calendar and launch the inworld browser to display it. That way, if you want detail on any of the things displayed in the Google calendar, you can get to the details that way. That also lets you navigate to other months.

Additional ways to make a Google calendar more interactive inworld are welcome.

We worked with Google calender the past few days at the Hangout. Ours is set up to display in world, if you have the RC viewer. Also touching the calender will open the URL in your internet browser.

I'm sure such things must be on the market--I swear I've seen them in use, maybe at a club or somewhere.

But, if one is already using the Google calendar, here's a hacked-up URL that displays almost plausibly as an event list on the parcel Media:

http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=qieniangao%40gmail.com&ctz=America/New_York&mode=AGENDA&showNav=0&showTabs=0&showDate=0

(Sorry for what that URL is bound to do to the thread formatting. )

The thing I don't like about that is then I can't watch movies. Whats a quick and dirty way of setting up a prim so someone clicks on it and it takes them to a URL?

Something like:

default
{
touch_start(integer total_number)
{
llLoadURL(llDetectedKey(0), "View my Calendar?", "http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=qieniangao%40gmail.com&ctz=America/New_York ";
}
}