Making a Google Calendar link

There is a handy form available under Google help to create a website button for a calendar event (http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/event_publisher_guide.html). It is pretty useful but I needed to decode the parameters in order to get some javascript to create a particular link on demand. Here's my notes about the parameters you can play with.

anchor address

• http://www .google.com/calendar/event?
• This is the base of the address before the parameters below.

action

• action=TEMPLATE
• A default required parameter.

src

• Example: src=default%40gmail.com
• Format: src=text
• This is not covered by Google help but is an optional parameter in order to add an event to a shared calendar rather than a user's default.

text

• Example: text=Garden%20Waste%20Collection
• Format: text=text
• This is a required parameter giving the event title.

dates

• Example: dates=20090621T063000Z/20090621T080000Z (i.e. an event on 21 June 2009 from 7.30am to 9.0am British Summer Time (=GMT+1)).
• Format: dates=YYYYMMDDToHHMMSSZ/YYYYMMDDToHHMMSSZ
• This required parameter gives the start and end dates and times (in Greenwich Mean Time) for the event.

location

• Example: location=Home
• Format: location=text
• The obvious location field.

trp

• Example: trp=false
• Format: trp=true/false
• Show event as busy (true) or available (false)

sprop

• Example: sprop=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.me.org
• Example: sprop=name:Home%20Page
• Format: sprop=website and/or sprop=name:website_name