Comments on: Creating Outlook Calendar events through hyperlinks

By: James

James — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:44:17 +0000

Andrew – my only guess is that when you’re editing the files in Outlook (or whatever client you’re using) it’s making a copy of the file and editing that.

Without using the same editor to ‘export’ the file again I guess you won’t be able to see the changes.

Or, I suppose you’d need a custom solution to not write the copied files out over the top of the original.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:13:04 +0000

I have saved a number of .ics files on my local machine (desktop), when I open one of the files, change some details, and click save. None of the information get’s saved. When the file is opened it still shows the original meeting info from when the file was created. How can I save changes to .ics files saved locally with the intention of attaching links to them for a website for people to download?

By: James

James — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:37:54 +0000

Graeme – That’s all about MIME-types on your server.

Server delivered files rely less on file extensions and more on MIME-Types. Make sure your server is set to deliver files with an extension of .ics with the MIME-type “text/calendar” and that should fix it.

(More info and references are in the article)

By: Graeme

Graeme — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:31:47 +0000

When clicking on the .ics link above, Mozilla prompts me to open the file with my mail client or save it (as expected).

However, I have created a similar .ics file and uploaded it to my web server, but when pasting the URL into the browser, all I see are the plain text details of the .ics file.

Any ideas why?

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:35:26 +0000

Lesta and varumr -

I realize this is a little after the fact, but to get this to work with 2003, just add the line

METHOD:PUBLISH

to the VCALENDAR definition section.

By: varumr

varumr — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:43:04 +0000

Hey Lesta G,

Did you fian a fix to to problem you stated? I am having same problem. ANy help will be greatly appriciated.

Thanks

By: Dave Ramsey

Dave Ramsey — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:21:00 +0000

If you want to take full advantage of the features offered via an .ics file, create the event while in Outlook and then save the event as an .ics file. That way you can include the a list of attendees and any other feature available via an Outlook event. Makes a “No Brainer” of the process of creating an .ics file.