Re: calendar.ics and Outlook 2003
George Sexton
> When I try to import my calendar.ics file into outlook 2003, I get an
> error message saying that the ics file is invalid. Does anyone know why?
Because Outlook has problems with iCal. Here are known issues.
1) Outlook only supports one event per iCal file.
2) Outlook does not support recurring events. Only One time.
3) All times (DTSTART, and DTEND) MUST be referenced to GMT
In short, its really useless. There are stand-alone programs that can
import iCal files into Outlook with varying degrees of sucess. I have
written one that mostly works, but I haven't packaged it up yet.
--
George Sexton
MH Software, Inc. - Home of Connect Daily Web Calendar
http://www.mhsoftware.com/conectdaily.htm
Ben Godde
wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:38:47 -0800, Charlie Mullins wrote:
>
>> When I try to import my calendar.ics file into outlook 2003, I get an
>> error message saying that the ics file is invalid. Does anyone know
>> why?
>
> Because Outlook has problems with iCal. Here are known issues.
>
> 1) Outlook only supports one event per iCal file.
> 2) Outlook does not support recurring events. Only One time.
> 3) All times (DTSTART, and DTEND) MUST be referenced to GMT
>
> In short, its really useless. There are stand-alone programs that can
> import iCal files into Outlook with varying degrees of sucess. I have
> written one that mostly works, but I haven't packaged it up yet.
>
it works with vcs-export from sunbird. Unfortunately, this feature is no
longer available in SB 0.3a and SB 0.2 shifts the time by 1h in the export
file (only there, not in the published file, but the published file again
is ics and cannot be imported to outlook).
Best, Ben
Simon Paquet
> it works with vcs-export from sunbird. Unfortunately, this feature is
> no longer available in SB 0.3a and SB 0.2 shifts the time by 1h in the
> export file (only there, not in the published file, but the published
> file again is ics and cannot be imported to outlook).
Try a recent nightly. This has been fixed there.
--
Simon Paquet
Sunbird/Calendar website maintainer
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar
Ben Godde
<web...@babylonsounds.com> wrote:
> Ben Godde wrote on 09. Feb 2006:
>> it works with vcs-export from sunbird. Unfortunately, this feature is
>> no longer available in SB 0.3a and SB 0.2 shifts the time by 1h inthe
>> export file (only there, not in the published file, but the published
>> file again is ics and cannot be imported to outlook).
> Try a recent nightly. This has been fixed there.
What has been fixed? I downloaded this SB version:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060209
Mozilla Sunbird/0.3a1+
but still no vcs export and ics export to outlook doesn't work.
Re-import after exporting to ics is now working correctly (also export
from sb03 and import to sb02).
Best, Ben
Simon Paquet
>>> it works with vcs-export from sunbird. Unfortunately, this feature
>>> is no longer available in SB 0.3a and SB 0.2 shifts the time by 1h
>>> in the export file (only there, not in the published file, but the
>>> published file again is ics and cannot be imported to outlook).
>>
>> Try a recent nightly. This has been fixed there.
>
> What has been fixed? I downloaded this SB version:
>
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060209
> Mozilla Sunbird/0.3a1+
>
> but still no vcs export and ics export to outlook doesn't work.
I misread your comment. I thought you were speaking about vcs import,
which has been getting some fixes lately.
Joey Minta
> I misread your comment. I thought you were speaking about vcs import,
> which has been getting some fixes lately.
>
fixes. vcs import is still non-existent.
The new import interfaces are very nice and fairly simple to use now,
though. If someone wanted to step up and provide a vcs import-export
module I'd be happy to try and answer questions that arose along the way.
-Joey
Simon Paquet
> Correction: CSV (comma-separated-value) import has been getting some
> fixes. vcs import is still non-existent.
Ah, thanks for the clarification, Joey.
Ben Godde
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:12:10 +0100, George Sexton
> <gse...@mhsoftware.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:38:47 -0800, Charlie Mullins wrote:
>>
>>> When I try to import my calendar.ics file into outlook 2003, I get an
>>> error message saying that the ics file is invalid. Does anyone know
>>> why?
>>
Try replacing the version number 0.2 in the ics-file bei 0.1
Then import to outlook works fine with the known restictions:
>> Because Outlook has problems with iCal. Here are known issues.
>>
>> 2) Outlook does not support recurring events. Only One time.
Whole day events are converted to events from 1am to 1am of the following
day. You can deal with this if you define the events in sunbird not as
whole day events but going from 0am to 0am at the following day.
>> 1) Outlook only supports one event per iCal file.
That is the case only for export from OL.
Ben