Updated Jan 05, 2007 by fmantek
Labels:	Phase-Implementation, NetClient

CalendarWebContent

Explains how to use the webcontent element in the calendar.

Introduction

One of the new features in the Google Calendar service is the ability to embed web content in the UI (see here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/google-calendar-does-something-about.html).

Details

Essentially, what you need to do is to create an atom:link, with a gcal:webContent child element of the following form:

<atom:link rel="http://schemas.google.com/gCal/2005/webContent"
           title="Your Title"
           href="a link to an icon for the top of the day">
           type="text/html or image/*"
  <gCal:webContent url="a link to the content"
                   width="pixels"
                   height="pixels" />
</atom:link>

If type is text/html, the content will be displayed in an IFrame, if it's image/, an IMG element will be used.

There is samplecode in cs/src/unittests/caltest.cs, here is the relevant part to show you how easy it is to set this up:

                    EventEntry entry = ...

                    AtomLink link = new AtomLink("image/gif", "http://schemas.google.com/gCal/2005/webContent");
                    link.Title = "Test content";
                    link.HRef = "http://www.google.com/calendar/images/google-holiday.gif";
                    WebContent content = new WebContent();
                    content.Url = "http://www.google.com/logos/july4th06.gif";
                    content.Width = 270;
                    content.Height = 130;
                    link.ExtensionElements.Add(content);
                    entry.Links.Add(link);

                    entry.Update(..

That's it. Play with it and enjoy the visual effects you can create for your calendar that way.

Comment by hermeval, May 20, 2008

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