Introduction

We are going to synchronize google-calendars(Personal, Work) with evolution calendars (Personal, Work) respectively.For shake of simplicity we took similar name for these calendars.

Sync Scenario

One can choose any arbitrary peer name.

Setup

Synchronization between work calendars is shown here

1. Create a Peer for Google calendar (gcal)

syncevolution --configure --template Google_Calendar username=YOURUSERNAME@gmail.com password=**** target-config@gcal

Here Google_Calendar template is used. One can also use webdav template. To list the known configuration templates run following commands at command at terminal-prompt:

syncevolution --template ?

2. Create a new source for work calendar

syncevolution --configure backend=evolution-calendar database=Work @default workcal

3. Add a remote database to the source (workcal)

syncevolution --configure database=https://www.google.com:443/calendar/dav/GOOGLRCALENDARID@group.calendar.google.com/events/ backend=caldav target-config@gcal workcal

Replace GOOGLECALENDARID with your own google-calendar id for work calendar. To find the required calendar-id go to google-calendar. Hover mouse over respective calendar, click down arrow & select settings.Then copy the calendar id as shown in the following image: