{"id":514156,"date":"2010-04-04T22:00:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T02:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\/?p=61419"},"modified":"2010-04-04T22:00:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T02:00:46","slug":"how-to-sync-multiple-calendars-to-the-ipad-with-google-sync","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/514156","title":{"rendered":"How To Sync Multiple Calendars to the iPad With Google Sync"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we&#8217;ve covered Apple&#8217;s iPad quite a bit this week. While there are other happenings in the mobile tech world, this was a big one &#8212; besides, I haven&#8217;t blogged much about it just yet. Oh, I will &#8212; I&#8217;ve been spending time with the device in bits and pieces over this holiday weekend &#8212; but I wanted to let the dust settle in terms of coverage. However, there&#8217;s one tidbit I wanted to share now, simply because it solves a problem for Google Calendar users that want to sync events with their iPad <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/mobile\/sync\/\">using Google Sync<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is &#8212; using a Microsoft Exchange setup for Google accounts currently works for one single calendar on the iPad. I can&#8217;t have that, so I scoured the web for a workaround, <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/showthread.php?t=889140\">found one in a MacRumors forum<\/a>, and used it successfully. Here&#8217;s the method to use until Google addresses the issue for Apple&#8217;s iPad &#8212; you&#8217;ll need to use the Safari browser, although this might work with user agent string spoofing on other browsers too:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open Safari and then view its Preferences pane.<\/li>\n<li>In Preferences, go to the Advanced tab and check &#8220;Show Develop menu in menu bar.&#8221; If you already have this checked, you can skip this step. Close the Preferences.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/safari-preferences.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"safari-preferences\" src=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/safari-preferences.jpg?w=500&#038;h=312\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"312\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61421\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>In the Safari menu bar, you should now see a Develop menu option. Select it, choose the User Agent option and pick &#8220;Mobile Safari 3.1.3 &#8212; iPhone&#8221; This tells web sites that you&#8217;re using the iPhone&#8217;s browser. You need to do this to open up the mobile site for the Google Sync service.<a href=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/iphone-user-agent.jpg\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/iphone-user-agent.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"iphone-user-agent\" src=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/iphone-user-agent.jpg?w=500&#038;h=171\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"171\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61422\" \/><\/a> In Safari, browse to <a href=\"http:\/\/m.google.com\/sync\">http:\/\/m.google.com\/sync<\/a> and sign in if needed. Normally you&#8217;d do this on your mobile device, but Google isn&#8217;t yet recognizing the iPad properly. If you try to configure Google Sync from the iPad, it will say &#8220;Sorry, Google Sync is not supported on this device.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Now go to the Develop menu in Safari and choose to Disable JavaScript as shown by the check mark below.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/disable-javascript.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"disable-javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/disable-javascript.jpg?w=292&#038;h=281\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"281\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61423\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li> Still in Safari, choose to manage your iPad. In my list, it&#8217;s the most recent device, but if you use Google Sync across multiple devices, it could appear anywhere in the list.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/google-sync.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"google-sync\" src=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/google-sync.jpg?w=373&#038;h=265\" alt=\"\" width=\"373\" height=\"265\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61424\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>In the next window, you&#8217;ll see that Google says you can sync up to one calendar to your device. Ignore that message because the workaround now allows multiple calendar selections. For instance, I chose three primary calendars and three shared calendars, offering both work and family events in one single view.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/google-calendar-selection.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"google-calendar-selection\" src=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/google-calendar-selection.jpg?w=375&#038;h=573\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"573\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61425\" \/><\/a>Once you&#8217;ve made your selections, click the Save button. That should do it, so don&#8217;t forget to <em>undo<\/em> the User Agent change and re-enable JavaScript in Safari. On the iPad, here&#8217;s what the result looks like less than a minute after I ran through these steps:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/gcal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  title=\"gcal\" src=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/gcal.png?w=604&#038;h=453\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-61426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure Google will address the one calendar limitation with Google Sync, but until they do, you can easily work around the issue in just a few minutes. Hopefully that helps &#8212; and now I&#8217;m off for some more iPad playtime so I can share all my thoughts soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/2010\/03\/hot-topic-the-ipad\/?utm_medium=relatedlinks&amp;utm_campaign=ipad\" >Related iPad Content from GigaOM Pro<\/a> (sub req\u2019d)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=jkontherun.com&#038;blog=4479943&#038;post=61419&#038;subd=jkontherun&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/jkOnTheRun?a=cH7A-6U0K9s:DgpzBDlM3Q8:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/jkOnTheRun?i=cH7A-6U0K9s:DgpzBDlM3Q8:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/jkOnTheRun?a=cH7A-6U0K9s:DgpzBDlM3Q8:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/jkOnTheRun?i=cH7A-6U0K9s:DgpzBDlM3Q8:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/jkOnTheRun?a=cH7A-6U0K9s:DgpzBDlM3Q8:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/jkOnTheRun?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/jkOnTheRun?a=cH7A-6U0K9s:DgpzBDlM3Q8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/jkOnTheRun?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/jkOnTheRun?a=cH7A-6U0K9s:DgpzBDlM3Q8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/jkOnTheRun?i=cH7A-6U0K9s:DgpzBDlM3Q8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/jkOnTheRun\/~4\/cH7A-6U0K9s\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we&#8217;ve covered Apple&#8217;s iPad quite a bit this week. While there are other happenings in the mobile tech world, this was a big one &#8212; besides, I haven&#8217;t blogged much about it just yet. Oh, I will &#8212; I&#8217;ve been spending time with the device in bits and pieces over this holiday weekend &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}