Calendar subscription - iCal format

We just put them in our diary which shows across all our Apple devices. You can put as much, or little,  information in as you like.

Would you like to explain what you mean by ical  format. If you mean that you  are given the option of putting an entry into your calendar from your confirmation email. As is the case when I book my car in for a service. Currently we don’t know what tweaks / enhancements might be included with the new booking system.

Perhaps the new booking system might have something in it that allows you to sync data?

David

My Club bookings are automatically entered into my Google Calendar, with relevant information, such as address. This appears to be generated from the email booking confirmation. You can then add to that information and print as you require.

Your calendar is then synched across all your devices with Google Calendar installed.

I know you can put them in your diary yourself and also using ics can add it to a calendar, but none of that is the same as having an ical published calendar sync.

If you cancel a booking it would not get removed from your calendar if you initially added it manually or via a confirmation email ics attachment.

A published ical format calendar would keep all diary's in sync of new and cancelled bookings.

The ical format is a standard for calendar sync recognised by apple, android, pc etc. It is what airbnb and all such services use.

A published ical format calendar would keep all diary's in sync of new and cancelled bookings.

Agree...this would be very useful to members...especially now with the facility to book up to a year ahead..

It may well be useful, but as far as we are concerned, wether it’s worthwhile would depend on what it would cost the club to set up. We currently have 18 bookings for next year and I don’t find it takes a lot of effort to manage them as I do at the moment. So yes if it can be done at minimal cost. No if the reverse.

We have to remember that CAMC doesn't have a brilliant record of reliable IT systems and there's no point in having something that doesn't work properly.

I wonder, too, how many folk would use it.

Just forward thinking SteveL.....and agree regarding cost. In a previous life I remember a colleague , who was responsible for the Departments Intranet, creating such a calendar without much effort/cost...

On an aircraft booking system site that I run it took about 2 hours (certainly less than half a day) to create an ical synced calendar for members bookings.

The caravan club website already has a page that lists my bookings (https://www.caravanclub.co.uk/ecommerce/uksites/booking/mybookings), so the only change needed is to create another page the same and then output it in ical/ics format rather than html/text. It would then just need to be called with a token (encrypted) to identify the member for whom to output bookings so the published ical url could be something like:-

https://www.caravanclub.co.uk/ecommerce/uksites/booking/mybookings/?output=ical&token=lkfu987f987 

Oh  Lord save us from the techies!

I only want to enjoy touring with my caravan, with fine weather, a good road, and a CL owners  enthusiastic greeting on arrival.