Following is a content of a fully functional calendar file
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
METHOD:PUBLISH
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//ORG//LN//LS
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:My Subject!
DESCRIPTION:My Description content
UID:D70C88D5-E5A1-48EC-84A4-D05DBD5CD8F6-99
DTSTART:20120218T160000
DTEND:20120218T163000
LOCATION:My Location
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
This is a really nice concept that I liked very much. If you search for info on "ical" files you will get to browse nice sweet pages including the wikepedia which has nice demonstrations/explations on what this does.
I had a scenario where I had to tinker people's outlook calendar from lotus notes. Using ical files were a really nice option. Atleast I did not find another nicer solution. Once these files are sent to users with the necessary values in it, you can have users open them and save them to their calendars.
A nice way like how xml shall mediate between different platforms. ical - I believe this will work with all major calendars. I know it works for Lotus Notes and Outlook. Yet to test on other web-based stuffs like Google Calendars. Let me know if you test them.
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I have a solution that creates ical on save and make it as attachemnt in link for email also updates the ical file if the date and time changes
ReplyDeleteThats nice. I do have something like that. But it wont use any server space. It would create the attachment on fly with out using any server space and will mail it.
ReplyDeleteIf possible share what you have and we can discuss more about it.