Retrieve Information from a Single User

To retrieve calendars from a single user, create a new fetch task by following these steps. The connector runs each fetch task automatically, based on the schedule that is configured in the configuration file.

To create a new Fetch Task

  1. Stop the connector.
  2. Open the configuration file in a text editor.
  3. In the [FetchTasks] section of the configuration file, specify the number of fetch tasks using the Number parameter. If you are configuring the first fetch task, type Number=1. If one or more fetch tasks have already been configured, increase the value of the Number parameter by one (1). Below the Number parameter, specify the names of the fetch tasks, starting from zero (0). For example:

    [FetchTasks]
    Number=1
    0=MyTask
  4. Below the [FetchTasks] section, create a new TaskName section. The name of the section must match the name of the new fetch task. For example:

    [FetchTasks]
    Number=1
    0=MyTask
    
    [MyTask]
  1. In the new section, ensure that you have set the parameters required to authenticate with Google Calendar. The OAuth configuration tool, described in Configure OAuth Authentication (Single User), creates a file that contains these parameters, and you can include them in the connector's configuration file using the following syntax:

    [MyTask] < "oauth.cfg" [OAUTH]

    For more information about including parameters from another file, see Include an External Configuration File

  2. In the new section, set the following configuration parameters:

    Username The user name to use to access Google Calendar, when you want to retrieve data from a single user account.
    ProxyHost (Optional) The host name or IP address of the proxy server to use to access Google Calendar
    ProxyPort (Optional) The port of the proxy server to use to access Google Calendar.
    SSLConfig The name of the section in the configuration file that contains the SSL settings to use to access Google Calendar.
    UserAgent The value to use for the User-Agent header in requests sent to the repository. OpenText recommends that you set the user-agent to a value that includes "gzip". This improves performance because Google Calendar compresses its responses with GZIP compression.

    For Example:

    [MyTask]
    Username=user@gmail.com
    ProxyHost=10.0.0.1
    ProxyPort=8080
    SSLConfig=SSL
    UserAgent=autn:netlib/2.0 gzip
    
    [SSL]
    SSLMethod=NEGOTIATE
  3. Save and close the configuration file. You can now start the connector.

    For more information about the configuration parameters that are available in Google Calendar Connector, see TaskName Configuration Parameters.