Cron for Solspace Calendar and Importer

Question

Would like to setup an EE template that I can run cron jobs through. With Solspace Calendar's {exp:calendar:ics_update}, I can create a template to include selected calendars and can dynamically set different update cycles (e.g. one a week, twice a week, daily) on the template via a custom channel field for calendar_calendars.

Some calendars which we want to import from don't have ICS files or have more information on other export formats so we use Solspace Importer for these. The only way I see setting up cron jobs for these is doing it directly and not with a template.

I think I know the answer, but would there be a way to do the same for Importer imports as Calendar imports? If not, would be great to add a similar feature for Solspace Importer.

Answer 1

Importer does not support importing Calendar entries. Only ICS files can be used for import.

I recommend submitting this as a Feature Request under the specific add-on category. It'll also give other users the option to vote up the feature request, and help us prioritize features to add in upcoming versions of this add-on. :) http://support.solspace.com/support/discussions

As for your templates using {exp:calendar:ics_update}, you could use your server's wget command in your cron job to access the URL that contains this Calendar tag to update calendars with ICS files.