Syncing multiple calendars using org-caldav-select-tags, items at different levels/depths don't respect tags

[TRSx80]

I am matching headline tags to certain calendars like so:

   (setq org-caldav-calendars '((:calendar-id "new-bills"
			     :select-tags ("cal_new_bills"))
			    (:calendar-id "new-fam"
			     :select-tags ("cal_new_fam"))))

As long as everything is at the same depth / level, it works as intended (example):

** foo :tag1: ** bar :tag2: ** baz :tag1:

However when one of the levels is different, like so:

** foo :tag1: ** bar :tag2: *** baz :tag1:

All hell breaks loose and everything gets synced to every other calendar. It's not even like it inherits the tags by branch. I double checked and I do have property inheritance in org turned off (org-use-property-inheritance nil).

Am I going crazy? Or can anyone else reproduce this behavior?

[hummuscience]

Did anyone figure this out?

[TRSx80]

Hi @Cumol,

I don't think I ever did. Which is quite unfortunate, as I still have not found any solution that really works to keep my Org and calendar in sync.

At first I tried putting calendar events into a separate Org file at a consistent level. This worked (for org-caldav), but became inconvenient because now I have two different files to maintain in parallel...

Eventually I think this led me to end my experiments with org-caldav altogether, and I never went back.

I am not sure how well this project is maintained here any more. I did find a fork by grauschnabel here that seems to be (slightly) better maintained, and perhaps even they share (some? all? I can't tell) patches back and forth, but it seems to me maybe the code is diverging now. There is a thread over there where he sort of reluctantly halfway takes on maintainership (but not really?). So the situation is a bit of a mess as far as I can tell, unfortunately.

Keep in mind that I have not actively looked into any of this in some time. However I still vaguely keep my finger on the pulse in hopes I can still use this some day. So if you learn anything, please report back!

Maybe I should move (or cross post, etc.) this Issue over to grauschnabel repository?

I really wish that everyone's effort could be combined into one place... But maybe no one seems to wish to step up as maintainer so far.