Here you can find the complete GCalendar documentation for the stream 2.0.x.

GCalendar is a bridge between google calendar and a joomla powered web site. This means on one side you have the google calendar administration in a nice, simple and Ajax powered web site at google.com/calendar and at the other the joomla web site which its full advantage of a modern and flexible CMS.

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Getting started::

To install and first time usage of GCalendar follow the instructions below (for joomla 1.0 installations is the routine the same).

1. Install the component
   

   Download the latest version of the GCalendar suite and extract the content to somewhere in your file system. You will find a com_gcalendar_xxx.zip file which is the core of GCalendar. In your joomla backend administration area install the component via Extensions -> Install/Uninstall.

2. Ceate a google calendar in joomla
   

   Go to Components-->GCalendar and press New.
   
   

3. Fill the GCalendar with your google calendar

   Open in a new browser window calendar.google.com and go to the calendar settings.
   
   

   Copy the html url, xml url and the ical url to the fields in the GCalendar calendar configuration and press the save button.
   

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4. Create Menu Link
   

   Go to Menus -> MenuManager-> Main Menu and press New. Select GCalendar and fill in the calendar name parameter the name of your newly created joomla GCalendar (this name must be identical with the one you created in the GCalendar calendars).
   

   

5. In the extracted GCalendar suite you will find a mod_gcalendar_xxx.zip file. In your joomla backend administration area install the module via Extensions -> Install/Uninstall.
6. Go to Extensions -> Module Manager and click on the installed GCalendar module.
7. Specify the name of an existing joomla GCalendar (this name must be identical with the one you created in the GCalendar calendars) and set Enabled to Yes.

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Component::

The GCalendar component shows a google calendar inside the main body part of your joomla based web site. The component is also the core element for the modules, it means it is necessary to install it to use the latest or upcoming module.

The menu parameters control the appearance of your google calendar in your joomla web page main body part.

• Parameters
  The standard parameters define the appearance of the calendar in the body part of your joomla based web page.
• Advanced Parameters
  The custom css parameter in the advanced section is to show the google calendar. The css is located in the folder com_gcalendar/views/gcalendar/tmpl/googlecal/. This script is copied from http://www.lindenlan.net if you encounter any problem please read the thread there and post it in the forum.

With the embed helper you can customize the appearance of your google calendar. After finishing to pimp your calendar copy the value of the src attribute of the iframe tag as html url to the calendar.

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Modules::

There are three modules available.

1. Overview module
   This module shows the google calendar at a module position.
   
2. Upcoming module
   This module shows the upcoming events  from a google calendar.
3. Latest module
   This module shows the last changed events from a google calendar.

There are some common problems with the shared settings of the users. Mostly when the calendar is not displaying any events you have to restrictive settings in your google calendar settings. The following options are describing how to make your events available in your joomla web site.

• Option 1
  Your calendar must be shared for all people, you have to set on your calendar settings the option "Share all information on this calendar with everyone".
  
• Option 2
  Use the private xml address of your google calendar as your xml in the GCalendar calendar configuration.

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Multilanguage::

1. Install and setup joomfish in your joomla environment.
2. In the downloaded zip file of the GCalendar component is a xml file in the folder joomfish which has the name gcalendar.xml. Put this file to the directory administrator/components/com_joomfish/contentelements/ or install it with the joomfish installer.
   
3. Setup a second google calendar for your desired language.
4. Configure in the joomfish translation under GCalendar the HTML, XML url and the ICAL url with the ones from your calendar with the new language.

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