Figured out a kind'a hack solution to this. For anybody trying to do something similar, you can pick up the gadget url with document.URL and then parse for the string "up_startdate". Yep its a hack way and there's probably a much better method, but it works.
On May 26, 11:19 am, vman <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought I would add a simple example to make sure my question is > clear. Say I were building an "on this day..." type gadget that would > appear weekly in the user's calendar (recurring event) such that the > user could go forward any number of weeks in their calendar from the > current date and see future "on this day..." gadget events. In order > for the "on this day..." gadget events in the future to obtain content > from the "on this day..." data server, each must perform a > gadgets.io.makeRequest to the server url with its own DATE in the > "parameters" argument. My question is on how to get this DATE from > within the gadget event. Is this possible with the caldata API or am > I approaching this problem from the wrong direction? > > Thanks again. > > On May 22, 10:15 pm, vman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am writing a calendar gadget with date dependent content (i.e. some > > of the content in the gadget will require that the date of the gadget > > event selected by the user, be known). The gadget is added to a > > calendar as a recurring event once per week. Is it possible, from > > within a calendar gadget event, for the gadget to query its own date > > with javascript? I didn't see anything in the API for doing so. > > > Thanks in advance. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Calendar Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-calendar-help-dataapi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
