MAC version or alternative?

[phw198]

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HanCholo wrote at 2016-09-01 21:20:

Please don't kill me for asking this, but I'm looking on behalf of my school principal here in our office; we have our exchange accounts for Outlook on our PCs but she mainly uses her iCal on her Mac. She'd like to switch over to google calendar but for the rest of the office staff which is still on PC and primarily using Outlook calendar, she'd like to be able to sync with us. Does anyone know if that is at all possible? Of course I'd have to have her port her iCal to google Calendar and then move forward unless someone knows of any other alternative? Thank you, and sorry for the multiple questions.

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StevenBoatman wrote at 2016-09-04 22:47:

You can directly sync the Mac iCal with Google calendar. I use it and it works perfectly. Just set up a Google account in iCal and select mail, contacts and calendar. If she did that Google would be the common calendar used by both the Mac iCal and the other PC Outlook calendars.

That said, I'd still like to see a Mac version because I have Outlook on the Mac as well as the PC and would like a common experience on both. Outlook 2011 had a way to sync to iCal which woud in turn sync to Google. The current 2016 of Outlook for Mac no longer allows this.

[phw198]

No plans to provide a port for the Mac, but please +1 the OP if you want to see this.

[emclain]

How many dependencies do you have on .NET framework vs. .NET core? dotnet for macOS seems to work pretty well these days.

[flohfeld]

please create urgently a macOS Version. I would pay for this!

[Halcykon]

I'd like to request a Mac version as well. Thanks!

[brypwn]

Any updates on a MacOS port? Reason being I would like to share my corporate outlook events to a gcal, which I can then share with my partner. Giving my partner access to my work calendar/email seems like a bad idea.

Thanks!

[YannickAaron]

Would love to have this on Mac as well!

[Alwinator]

A Mac version would be great!

[phw198]

To be honest, this isn't going to happen unless the current OGCS is rewritten from the ground up - which there might be call for along with #1640, but I have no plans or time right now to do that!

At present, OGCS uses the COM interface which Office on the Mac does not support. So this isn't even a question of rewriting the user interface and hoping .Net Core provides enough functionality. 😞

[Halcykon]

I was able to implement this Google Apps script as a workaround:

https://github.com/derekantrican/GAS-ICS-Sync

[tomtomtls]

I will immediatly have a look at this piece of code! I don't know how GAS are used, so can you just confirm @Halcykon that this project allows one to sync his Google Calendar(s) with Outlook Calendar(s) (even if used through a heavy client)?

[Halcykon]

"This is a standalone script (that consists of multiple files). The purpose is to sync ics/ical calendars to Google Calendar. Google Calendar can already do this, but updates only happen once every 12 or even 24 hrs. This script can be run much more frequently."