Sync with Nextcloud Calendar

[kd2flz]

Question

Is it possible to sync superproductivity tasks with Nextcloud Calendar (even one way)?

Background

I imagine it should be possible to do this using caldav, since there is a caldav option in Nextcloud. However, not being very familiar with caldav, I can't quite figure out how to do this. Particularly, I'm confused by the "name of the caldav resource" option.

Process

What I've been doing is, from my Nextcloud calendar, choosing the option to "copy private link" to an individual calendar, then pasting that link into the "url" field. This link includes both the username and the name of the calendar. I still input my username and password, as superproductivity throws an error if I don't. I also input the name of the calendar into the "name of the caldav resource" field, using both the name from the calendar url, and also the calendar's plain English displayed name from Nextcloud. However, both of these gave an error (caldav resource couldn't be found). I also tried removing the username and calendar name from the url, but this still gave me the same error.

[johannesjo]

Hi there! Thank you very much for opening this up. I am not using the nextcloud integration myself very often, but hopefully someone else can provide some guidance. We probably also should update the help section for this.

@janLo can you maybe help out with some info on how to do this? I would update the relevant help section then.

[wolfisberg]

Hi,

I was playing around with the app today and tested the CalDev integration. The good news is, that you're supposed to be able to sync NextCloud (nc) calendar tasks into superproductivity (sp) and I got that working. The bad news is, that I did as you discribed and this probably won't help you.

Here's what I used

• URL: https://<your-next-cloud-url>/remote.php/dav/calendars/<user>/<calendar>/ (copied from nc as private link)
• CalDev Resource: the pretty name of the calendar, not the <calendar>-ID from the private link. I'm not sure what purpose this field even serves since it's not the project display name in sp and the url contains the calendar id anyways. This confused me as well.
• Then I ticked all the boxes and left the category filter empty and after a while (30 sec?) the tasks appeared in the backlog of the project.

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@johannesjo / @janLo:

note

In the settings under Sync > WebDav there is a nc mention, but only for syncing a backup in text file format to the cloud as far as I can tell. When I first tried the app a couple days ago I ended up uninstalling because the CalDav feature is a requirement for me and I thought that was the only *Dav nc integration offered. Only after somebody told me about the actual way to have CalDav integration I was aware of that feature. Is there a documentation of the software somewhere?

question

What I couldn't figure out though, was if you can sync tasks you create in a CalDav sync'd project up to the CalDav provider? If not, consider this a feature reqeust ;) CalDav is kind of a must for me for sharing tasks between apps (mobile, desktop, calendar and todo apps, etc.).

Great app though!

[johannesjo]

Hey @wolfisberg ! The CalDav integration only reads the data at the moment though I am open to partially extending that, where it makes sense.

Is there a documentation of the software somewhere?

Apart from the little bit under project settings – none that I am aware of :)

[wolfisberg]

For me It would be cool to configure a project in a way that basically does not allow "local" data, i.e. that all tasks are automatically pulled from CalDav and all newly created tasks from within the app are synced back up to CalDav.

Also, I managed to trigger a bug, where I had the app sync multiple copies of a certain CalDav task. I had one task ~10 times in super productivity that existed only once in CalDav, I'm assuming some syncing went wrong. Can't reproduce it though, and it happened only for one single task.

[johannesjo]

Thanks for your interesting suggestion. Would be cool to have a mode like that I agree.

If you encounter the bug again, please open up a separate bug ticket! Thank you!