Nextcloud has a nice home page called the Dashboard, which has calendar items and to-do list on it. But ever since Calendar App version 4.5, it has been broken for items sourced outside of Nextcloud. In other words, if you create a calendar item on your smartphone and sync it in to Nextcloud, on the Calendar web page you can see the item, but on the Dashboard home page it will be missing. The solution is to downgrade the Calendar app to version 4.4.5
Steps to perform:
- In the Nextcloud admin interface, find the Calendar app and disable it
- ssh into your Nextcloud instance
cd /var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/mv calendar calendar-oldwget -q https://github.com/nextcloud-releases/calendar/releases/download/v4.4.5/calendar-v4.4.5.tar.gztar xvf calendar-v4.4.5.tar.gzchown -Ruser:groupcalendar- In the Nextcloud admin interface, select the Disabled apps section. Then Enable (but not update) the Calendar 4.4.5 app.
And now, when you go back to your Dashboard home page, your calendar will have all the items on it. 🙂
You do get to apply this fix after every update. 🙁
Technically, this post title is somewhat misleading: sync is not broken. What is broken is that items that sync in from CalDAV sources apparently have something that, when it is present, causes the Dashboard page to skip those calendar items. It just looks like sync is broken because you knew the items were on your calendar: but when you look at the Dashboard for today, they are missing. I suppose a better title would be Temporary fix for Nextcloud calendar (some) items missing from Dashboard