Comments on: Announcing the Google Calendar Dashboard Widget

By: Red

Red — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:18:53 +0000

I imagine you are no longer supporting/updating this, but just in case: I just got my 10.8.2 OSX machine and this would have been great! If you’re not doing this anymore, any similar alternatives you know of?

By: Katie

Katie — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:56:42 +0000

I’m having the same problem as David and Admin MMD. Tried XML, ICAL, and HTML adresses but the widget front is totally blank. What was the solution to that issue?

By: Torley

Torley — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:20:44 +0000

I’m trying this widget in OS X 10.5.5 and it’s blank for me, too. I see no way to configure it. :( It looks really nice when it does work, though!

By: priscilla Cushman

priscilla Cushman — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:17:44 +0000

I see no replies to blank widget stuff. I am on Leaopard and have downloaded version 3.1 and it is blank, despite the XML on the info side.

I do not want to make my calendars public.

Please advise.

Prisca

By: Alison Adams

Alison Adams — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:04:56 +0000

Hi again,
I have this working now. The thing I hadn’t done correctly wasn’t with the widget, it was the calendar itself – I had set access rights for named people and then just the ‘free/busy’ option for everyone else. When I set the calendar to ‘share everything with everyone’, the widget started to work. I hadn’t really wanted it to be that open to others, but at least my widget works now !
Alison.

By: Alison Adams

Alison Adams — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:06:19 +0000

What ‘Done button’ ? !

Aha, I just upgraded OS to 10.4.8 and now get a ‘different’ widget – it has a ‘done’ button, and yes it does now flip back.
Unfortunately, it is still blank on the other side…
Will leave this for now, other (restoring data) stuff to sort out first. If I can’t get it to work will come back to this forum.
Thanks for help so far.
Alison.

By: Manas

Manas — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:41:28 +0000

Alison, does it flip back when you click the ‘Done’ button?

By: Alison Adams

Alison Adams — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:54:45 +0000

Manas, thanks for advice, it made a difference – on to the next hurdle….
I now get a widget I can ‘turn around’ to enter my XML string, but then it just sits there… doesnt respond, or use the string. No apparent button/other to ‘activate’ it ?

I only just installed 10.4 so maybe its the entire widget setup that is incomplete, rather than your widget, though other widgets have installed okay.

Any further ideas welcome.
Regards,
Alison.

By: Manas

Manas — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:29:06 +0000

Hi Alison, it seems you aren’t using my widget, but another forked version of it. I suggest you delete the other one, and download the one linked in the post above. (It won’t overwrite the other one, so you’ll have to delete it manually.)

By: Manas

Manas — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:21:43 +0000

Hey all of you who reported the timezone issues (or as someone said, Yo members of the timezone society!), my sincere apologies to all of you.

Thanks for your patience so long, and hopefully, I’ve managed to fix the issue. Timezones turned out to be weirdly complicated, with three different date representations between Google data and the actual widget display.

Hopefully, they’ve been fixed. If not, please send me email or post a comment here, and I’ll take a look again. :) 2.1 is here.