Using Google calendar as data source for scheduler

[soul auctioneer]

Hi,
I'm building a web-based enterprise CRM using Google Apps for our email and calendar back-end. I'm very interested in implementing a Telerik scheduler that uses the Google API to read and update event information. Google has a .NET library for handling the API calls:
http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/client-cs.html
http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/developers_guide_protocol.html#AuthClientLogin

My question is, can I take the the feed for an event list, as it's returned by the Google Data API, and pass it into Telerik scheduler for display? The feed looks something like this:

<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'
    xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005'>
  <id>http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/[e-mail]/private-magicCookie/full</id>
  <updated>2006-03-29T07:35:59.000Z</updated>
  <title type='text'>Jo March</title>
  <subtitle type='text'>This is my main calendar.</subtitle>
  <link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml'
    href='http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/[e-mail]/private-magicCookie/full'></link>
  <link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml'
    href='http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/[e-mail]/private-magicCookie/full'></link>
  <author>
    <name>Jo March</name>
    <email>[e-mail]</email>
  </author>
  <generator version='1.0' uri='http://www.google.com/calendar/'>CL2</generator>
  <gd:where valueString='California'></gd:where>
  <entry>
    <id>http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/[e-mail]/private-magicCookie/full/entryID</id>
    <published>2006-03-30T22:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2006-03-28T05:47:31.000Z</updated>
    <category scheme='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind'
      term='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#event'></category>
    <title type='text'>Lunch with Darcy</title>
    <content type='text'>Lunch to discuss future plans.</content>
    <link rel='alternate' type='text/html'
      href='http://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=aTJxcnNqbW9tcTJnaTE5cnMybmEwaW04bXMgbWFyY2guam9AZ21haWwuY29t'
      title='alternate'></link>
    <link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml'
      href='http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/[e-mail]/private-magicCookie/full/entryID'></link>
    <author>
      <name>Jo March</name>
      <email>[e-mail]</email>
    </author>
    <gd:transparency
      value='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#event.opaque'></gd:transparency>
    <gd:eventStatus
      value='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#event.confirmed'></gd:eventStatus>
    <gd:comments>
      <gd:feedLink
        href='http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/[e-mail]/private-magicCookie/full/entryID/comments/'></gd:feedLink>
    </gd:comments>
    <gd:when startTime='2006-03-30T22:00:00.000Z'
      endTime='2006-03-30T23:00:00.000Z'></gd:when>
    <gd:where></gd:where>
  </entry>
</feed>


...thanks for your help!

[Peter]

Hi Ash,

You cannot directly use this feed to pass it to RadScheduler, since our control expects objects of type 
Telerik.Web.UI.Appointment. You can, however, use a custom provider to process the feed and convert it into an acceptable format which RadScheduler can understand. More on custom providers you can read here.

• https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/aspnet-ajax/controls/scheduler/data-binding/providers/implementing-a-provider;

Regards,
Peter
the Telerik team

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