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Calendar not syncing to Outlook Web
I've generated the calendar I want in Hebcal, but when I enter the link in Outlook Web it only shows the events for this week and the beginning of next week (through the beginning of Rosh Hashanah). I've been beating my head against this for a week now, and need some help.
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Thanks for pasting the URL - this helps us understand the calendar settings you're using.
Your calendar subscription is a 2-year perpetual calendar feed with events for the current year (5785) plus 1 future year. We've confirmed that the feed contains events starting October 2024 (Rosh Hashana 5785) and ends in September 2026 (Erev Rosh Hashana 5787).
However, we subscribed to this exact calendar feed on Outlook Web and we see exactly the issue you are describing. For some reason Outlook is not fetching all of the events in the feed.
We're going to keep investigating, but in the interim we have a recommended workaround: unsubscribe from this calendar feed and use multiple Hebcal.com calendar subscriptions.
For example, if you’d like to include the Hebrew date for every day of the year, you can subscribe to that calendar via a separate calendar feed at our Jewish Holiday downloads page. Look for Hebrew calendar dates (English) or Hebrew calendar dates (Hebrew).
We have an article that explains why calendar apps like Outlook.com impose size limits on individual calendar feeds, and how multiple calendar feeds avoids this problem
https://www.hebcal.com/home/1398/number-of-years-in-calendar-feed-subscriptions
An added advantage of the multi-subscription approach is that you can choose separate colors in Google Calendar or iOS/iCloud calendar for each calendar event feed.
I tried using the Outlook Web button, but it’s not working because it always takes me to the Microsoft login screen (even if I’m logged in already) and even after I log in it does not take me to the add calendar screen. I copied the link (webcal://download.hebcal.com/v4/CAEQARgBIAEoATABQAFIAVABWNfwowJqAXN4EoABAYgBAZgBAaABAbgBAcgBAagDAQ/hebcal_roanoke.ics) and pasted it manually.
Sorry to hear you are having difficulty with this! Sounds frustrating and we hope we can help.
Can you share the exact download.hebcal.com URL with us so we can inspect the server side?
Are you following these Outlook.com Jewish holidays download instructions? or are you using the more generic iCalendar/ICS Jewish holidays download instructions?