Re: [fw-gdata] valueString not being stored

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:37:00 +0000, Trevor Johns <trevor@tjohns.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:14:22 -0800 (PST), aman_tuladhar
> <aman_tuladhar@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am trying an example found in Zend Gdata Google Calendar
> documentation.
>> It seem to work and create Event, but it is not storing the valueString
>> data.
>> I want to use valueString to store human readable date.
>>
>> Is it some kind of bug in the framework or did I do something wrong ??
>> Any help or hint would be appreciated very much.
>>
>> Thanx
>
> Hi Aman,
> The gd:when element (and Zend_Gdata_Extension_When, in turn) is part of
> the
> Google Data common elements suite. Since these elements are used across
> all
> of the Google Data APIs, there are some fields that aren't supported by
> all
> APIs.
>
> The valueString property happens to be one of these, and Google Calendar
> doesn't actually do anything with it that I can recall. You're setting it
> properly, but the data is being discarded when it reaches the server.
>
> You'll either have to store your human-readable information in the event
> description, or as an extended property (in which case only your
> application would know what to do with it).
>
> If you're just looking for a way to create events using a freeform time
> description, you could also use the quick add interface described here:
>
>
http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/docs/1.0/developers_guide_php.html#CreatingQuickAdd

Also, I've opened up a feature request for this behavior here:

http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=1056

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star the issue (upper-left hand corner, next to the issue number).

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Trevor Johns