Questions tagged [icalendar]

iCalendar is a widely-used data format for representing and exchanging calendaring and scheduling information independent of any particular calendar service or protocol.

iCalendar is a data format for representing and exchanging calendaring and scheduling information such as events, to-dos, journal entries, and free/busy information, independent of any particular calendar service or protocol.

Used and supported by many products, including , Apple's iCal and Microsoft .

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.ics invitation calendar not working in outlook.com issue

Hi im using cakephp email to send an email with .ics calendar attached to it the problem is that the confirmation button si shown in yahoo and gmail prefectly but not in outlook.com. here's an example of an .ics…
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Importing ics file to an Outlook.AppointmentItem

I have an Outlook 2007 add-in that is trying to import ics files into Outlook.AppointmentItem objects so that I can read attributes about certain appointments. Currently I am not able to read the ics back into memory. Any suggestions on what I am…
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Multipart email with text and calendar: Outlook doesn't recognize ics

I have problems with Outlook 2007. When sending a "multipart/alternative" email with a "text/calendar" part, Outlook recognizes the calendar event, that's how it has to be. But when adding a "text/plain" part, Outlook only displays the plain text,…
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.NET CalDAV Client

I need my .NET application to access content from a variety of CalDAV servers. I have been looking for a good .NET CalDAV client library for a while now, but have been unable to find anything that suits my needs. Does such a library even exist, or…
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Ical VALARM not registrering

I've used the last couple of days creating an application that constructs an .ics file (ical) It's coded in php, and the base functions work fine (timezones, Vevent's, and so on) but when i add VALARM's into those VEVENT's neither google calendar,…
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Import iCal (ics) with fullcalendar?

What would need to be done in order to load .ics files with fullcalendar? I cannot use php or .net unfortunately.
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Integrating Outlook Calendar to Website / Other

When the users add events to the online calendar they also can be added to the outlook calendar (synchronize). Obviously a site built using PHP can not integrate with desktop application directly, so I am looking alternative options. Options I…
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DDay iCal - adding an Attendee

How does one add required/optional attendees + organizer(s) to an iCal event? I'm using the excellent DDay library, and would love to be able to also add a CN, but haven't found any examples in the documentation, the downloaded examples or…
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PHP Date to iCal date format for DTSTART

Is there an easy way to get the correct format for an iCal DTSTART using php date? I need the format to look like: 20111008T110000 or 20111008 (that one is easy) if I don't have any time. Does PHP date have a quick way to do this, specifically one…
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Is There a Workaround for lack of Olsen TZ TZID Format in ICS File

I recently had a problem with an ICS file that I received in email. My copy of Outlook 2010 would not recognize the timezone correctly. Here is the way that the start time of a meeting was represented in the ICS…
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parser for ics files in .net

I'm trying to figure out the best way take a ics file and convert it into a format I can put into a database. Can anyone recommend how to do this?
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is there anyway to provide a ics Calendar file that will automatically keep in sync with updates

i see using this calendar library in C# that i can programatically generate an ics file with a bunch of calendar events. but I want a solution if i a person wants to subscribe to a calendar so when future events get added or deleted that that person…
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can/should iCal property parametrs be escaped?

specifically, the CN (common name) parameter, e.g. ORGANIZER;CN=John Doe,Eng:mailto:jd@some.com The RFC is vague on this, IMHO. It is very clear about property values of type TEXT, but for this parameter it just says "The parameter value is text".…
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Update an event in Outlook 2007 with an iCalendar file

There is a previous thread with this question, and hints at an answer, but I could not get it to work. I have an ICS file. It validates. It looks like…
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Is there a tool that allows visualization of crontab entries?

I have crontabs for many machines, and wanted to see what started when, and to ensure load on the database server would be fine. Is there a tool that either converts crontab entries to iCal, or a tool that directly does visualization?
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