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what client(s) should be targeted in implementing an ICalendar export for events?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar I'm working to implement an export feature for events. The link above lists tons of clients that support the ICalendar standard, but the "three big ones" I can see are Apple's iCal, Microsoft's Outlook, and Google's Gmail. I'm starting to get the feeling that each of these client implement differe...

Creating iCal Files in c#

I'm looking for a good method of generating an iCalendar file (*.ics) in c# (asp.net). I've found a couple resources, but one thing that has been lacking is their support for quoted-printable fields - fields that have carriage returns and line feeds. For example, if the description field isn't encoded properly, only the first line will...

Best iCalendar library for Java?

I'm looking for a library to handle iCalendar data in Java. Open source, well-documented implementations with a good object model are preferred. iCal parsing capabilities are less important to me, but still nice to have. Does anyone have any recommendations? ...

iCal Format - Organizer Property

I am currently programming a scheduling application which loosely based on iCalendar standard. Does anyone knows in which property can I store the event creator's information? By browsing through the iCalendar RFC 2445, I find this property: Organizer. can I store the event creator's information in the property even if he/she is the only...

Quickest way to get ical email attachment into Google Calendar

I'm running Thunderbird on Windows. I often receive .ics (iCal) attachments - invitations to meetings. Currently I save the attachment to my desktop, open Google Calendar, choose 'Add>Import Calendar', browse to the .ics file, and return to the calendar. Is there any tool that can speed this up... e.g. I forward the email to a special e...

iCalendar Format (Outlook 2007)

I've got a little problem, I need to be able to have a reoccurring event (forever) that marks the day after the second Tuesday of each month. Your probably thinking, why not just Wednesday of each month. October 2008 is an example, it starts on a Wednesday. :( Really I just need it in Outlook, probably (but not limited to) some iCalend...

Programmatically add custom event in the iPhone Calendar

Is there any way to add iCal event to the iPhone Calendar from the custom App? ...

Schedule an appointent from a SharePoint workflow

I need to get an appointment into someone's Outlook calendar based on requests from their employees. The application runs in SharePoint (WSS 3.0). My first impressions are to use iCal or send meeting requests, but I haven't done either before & I'm looking for a very quick & easy way to get it done. Any ideas? ...

HTML viewer for ics (iCal) files

I'm creating a small app in ASP.NET MVC that generates ics (iCal) files based on certain criterias. The generated files are accessible through a permanent URL (http://myserver/some/criterias.ics). I am looking for a way to display the calendar data on the page to give the user a preview of the generated file. Ideally, I'd like a Google ...

How to create a .ICS file with multiple VEVENTs to be imported into an existing Outlook Calendar

I have a need to allow for a user to download an event that has multiple meeting dates. To do this I have created a memorystream to be downloaded which produces a .ics file. For example: BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Company//Product//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Subject of Event LOCATION:Location of Event UID:12275...

Delete calendar event using iCalendar file import (Outlook 2003 problem) ?

Is there a way for me to delete items from calendar by using iCalendar import? I know that there is a METHOD:CANCEL, however when I tried it, it didn't do anything to the calendar event. Here is what is in my iCalendar file. When I try to import it to Outlook, it just adds these events. BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//DDay.iCal/...

Does anyone know any gems/plugins/tutorials related to exporting events to iCal, Google Calendar, Outlook from a Rails application?

I am trying to figure out if there is already a plug in that does the interaction with iCal, Google APIs that I can use or do I need to just get my hands dirty and write it myself. If anyone knows of good resources that I can look at that could help me with the implementation, that would be good as well. I am new to RoR and I have be...

PHP Calendar Recurrence Logic

Before the answers start coming (which I know they will) I know that there are a million projects out there that have done this already. Having said that what I am trying to do is create an online calendar - using PHP & MySQL here is what I am planning ... tables in database ((calendar_item) id, title, start_date, start time, end time...

Encoding newlines in iCal files

I'm trying to figure out how to encode newlines in the DESCRIPTION part of an iCal file in such a way that they will import properly into Outlook, Google Calendar and the Apple Calendar. The original code I inherited used "=0D=0A" with a quoted-printable encoding, which works great in Outlook, but not in Google Calendar. The spec seems...

Convert UTC to Unix Timestamp

Hi, I'm parsing an RSS feed which has the time and date as UTC, I need to convert this into a unix timestamp. Is there a simple way to do this? ...

WebDav connection/authentication with PHP

Okay, so the PHP script exists on serverA. ServerA has php safe-mode ON and WebDAV OFF. I can't change either of these factors. I want a script on serverA to get the user's login/password for another server, which we shall call serverB. ServerB has WebDAV ON. The ultimate goal is that the user will go to the script on ServerA, put in t...

HTML in iCal attachment

Can an iCal attachment contain HTML in the description property? If so, what are the restrictions? ...

Applescript and iCal interaction

I'm trying to write an AppleScript to query iCal and find all the events I've got for a given date, in any calendar. I started by writing a simple script that does something simple with every event in a given calendar: tell application "iCal" tell calendar "Reuniones" set the_events to every event repeat with an_event in the_events...

Convert iCal to HTML or plaintext in Java

I'm looking for a Java API to convert ICS (aka iCal) attachments to nicely formatted HTML or plaintext for display purposes. Ideally, it would be able to handle: Converting dates to a specified timezone. Expanding recurrence patterns into human readable sentences. Multiple VCALENDAR records in a single file. I'm looking at iCal4j, wh...

ICal Format - One time import or RSS like functionality?

I'd like to publish a list of events in the iCal format. My question is - if I have a public ICS file that I add/update events on, will clients like google reader and outlook receive those updates automatically? i.e. - does it behave like an RSS feed that gets periodically pinged for changes or is it a one time import? Thanks ...