VEVENT vs. an event in a calendar application A *.ical or *.ics file, or another comparable data stream contains messages sent from one calendar application to another one. The calendar applications store events as objects. You can enter an event in your calendar by clicking and typing, but another way is to import an ical … Read more
I’ve found InstantCal, which does what I want. The display it creates is not that great though. Also, it seems buggy in Chrome. I’d like something similar, with a simpler, nicer interface.
It turns out the answer was hiding in plain sight. The properties above are a draft proposal at the moment and unsupported by anything I tried. It’s probably a good bet to include them in your calendar for the future – but for it to work now as well, do it like this: BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 … Read more
After doing some research and testing. The answer is a qualified no. Meaning: you could throw it in there, but you shouldn’t. It is not strictly forbidden by the RFC, but DESCRIPTION is not the appropriate property for HTML content. DESCRIPTION should be the plain text version of your content. The property X-ALT-DESC with a … Read more
here is a simple example of an icalendar file with two events. BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//bobbin v0.1//NONSGML iCal Writer//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20100701T080000Z DTEND:20100701T110000Z DTSTAMP:20091130T213238Z UID:1285935469767a7c7c1a9b3f0df8003a@yoursever.com CREATED:20091130T213238Z DESCRIPTION:Example event 1 LAST-MODIFIED:20091130T213238Z SEQUENCE:0 STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Example event 1 TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20100701T120000Z DTEND:20100701T130000Z DTSTAMP:20091130T213238Z UID:1285935469767a7c7c1a9b3f0df8003b@yoursever.com CREATED:20091130T213238Z DESCRIPTION:Example event 2 LAST-MODIFIED:20091130T213238Z SEQUENCE:0 STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Example event 2 TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR … Read more
CalDAV is a protocol extension for WebDAV and can used to manipulate data in the iCalendar format. So CalDAV is like the HTTP for calendar stuff, and iCalendar is like HTML.
iCalendar was based on a vCalendar and Outlook 2007 handles both formats well so it doesn’t really matters which one you choose. I’m not sure if this stands for Outlook 2003. I guess you should give it a try. Outlook’s default calendar format is iCalendar (*.ics)
OK, looks like I’m answering my own question. The correct way to do it is to use “\n” for line breaks. Outlook did not recognize this because I had “ENCODING=quoted-printable” on the description. Once I removed that, Outlook displayed the new lines correctly. Also, to get the file to open correctly in Apple iCal, you … Read more