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Inspiring
May 10, 2006
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create an .ics Calendar File on the fly

  • May 10, 2006
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I try to make events available as .ics calendar.

If I actually let the file being physically written a double click on the file imports the event into Outlook correctly

But in the cfheader part the files seems not be generated correctly.
The dialog to open in Outllok appears but the Outlook eyplains that the import doesn't work because something like: "file can not be imported, might have something to to with the Mooncalendar, change to Gregorian..."

Do I really have to save the file and then cffile reading the file again?
Or are there any other ways to do it rigth?
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    Anonymous
    July 10, 2006
    I have an event registration application that currently sends out an email confirming the users successful registration. I wanted to include an .ics file in the email for the puropose of allowing the user to add the event to their Outlook Calendar. Is there an alternative to achieving this?

    I have been playing with Goolge's Calender and I wanted to copy what they do with their email invitation.

    Here is what is created using Google Calendar:

    BEGIN:VCALENDAR
    PRODID:-//Google Inc//Google Calendar 70.9054//EN
    VERSION:2.0
    CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
    METHOD:REQUEST
    BEGIN:VEVENT
    DTSTART:20060626T190000Z
    DTEND:20060626T203000Z
    DTSTAMP:20060710T172443Z
    ORGANIZER;CN=Tom Jones:MAILTO:my@email.com
    UID:gneheiu649are0h43lgm2gvdlg@google.com
    ATTENDEE;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE
    ;CN=Tom Jones;X-NUM-GUESTS=0:MAILTO:my@email.com
    ATTENDEE;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;X-NUM-GUESTS=0:MAILTO:your@email.com
    CLASS:PRIVATE
    CREATED:20060710T172443Z
    DESCRIPTION:testing ics file creation
    LAST-MODIFIED:20060710T172443Z
    LOCATION:my desk
    SEQUENCE:0
    STATUS:CONFIRMED
    SUMMARY:test 2
    TRANSP:OPAQUE
    END:VEVENT
    END:VCALENDAR

    Is there a source .ics documentation? I am a little confused as to what the values are.

    Is there a way to only be able to accept the event not decline or propose new time?

    Any thoughts are appreciated.

    Mark
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    dempster
    Inspiring
    May 10, 2006
    I've had success with the attached code. I use a different content type than you, and specify inline for content disposition.

    Can't guarantee this, but I recall a few different approaches through trial and error before I got this to work.

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