One of our Scoutbook calendars has stopped working with Google. It works fine in outlook. I suspect there are formatting issues and Google isn’t handling them well. I put the link into an ics validator and it shows 23 errors and 12 warnings. Problem! Found 23 errors Errors Lines not delimite…

I just downloaded the file and browsed it in Notepad++. I don’t see any obvious issues, but I’m sure I’m missing something. Could this be a feature request for Scoutbook to automatically sanitize the events? If possible I think that’s a better option than trying to ask a Scoutmaster to clean up t…

@ScottHuffman1 - it is on the key 3 and their delegates to makes sure events are entered properly and to fix those which cause a sync issue. The easiest process is to work from the last time an event was in the g-cal.

[image] ScottHuffman1: Could this be a feature request for Scoutbook to automatically sanitize the events? If possible I think that’s a better option than trying to ask a Scoutmaster to clean up their formatting. Before the system goes that far, it would be best to find out what is up that is…

Using VI on the ics file I found the last event processed by google has a number of ^M, ^T, ^Y hidden characters. They don’t show in Notepad or Notepad++.

@ScottHuffman1 - I think perhaps they are doing a copy paste into the description box from some word processing app

@ScottHuffman1 [image] Troop Calendar Syncing - New Events Not Syncing to Subscribed Calendars Using Scoutbook & Scoutbook Plus Thanks for the responses. I finally figured it out. TL;DR: calendar programs apparently don’t like the windows ^M control character…

Thanks, I had found that one in my google search earlier. That’s what made me run the ics file through a validation website. I was able to remove the ^M and other odd characters from the events and the calendar is working again. It seems the calendar info came from a website or flyer and was past…

@ScottHuffman1 - i honestly doubt that the development team is going to scrub calendar entry issues created by the end user.

While I’m sure this does cause problems, it’s not the sole culprit. I noticed new events created sometime beginning Jan 2026 stopped showing up in GCal. I examined events that weren’t showing up, but couldn’t spot the offending characters (granted, didn’t use an ics validator). So, tried simply crea…

@JohnKelley7 - nothing has been changed in the scoutbook calendar. Beyond that we are not google support. I would not import.. you should be subscribing to the scoutbook calendar. Our subscription is working and has been for years now.

Scoutbook Calendar fix formatting errors - Events don't show up in Google calendar

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Scoutbook Calendar fix formatting errors - Events don't show up in Google calendar

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