Add Appointment or event by clicking a web link.

[Robert R Kircher, Jr.]

I have seen on other web sites the ability to click on an ling that will
launch a pre-filled event or appointment dialog and allow the use to then
click save and close to save the even/appointment to their outlook calendar.
Unfortunate these sites no longer exist or no longer provide the link for me
to examine.

Does anyone know how this is done or can point me to a site that may have
code/instructions on how to do this?

TIA.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Most web sites providing that kind of functionality do it with iCalendar, an
Internet calendaring standard, either with stored .ics files or by building
iCal items on the fly.

 

[Rob Schneider]

Sue,

What a coincidence. Just was I was thinking about doing for a meeting
management web site I'm helping to make. I've done some Google searches
trying to find resources to help me build and iCal item, or the spec.
Must be a senior moment, but can't spot. Do you know of any code
availabe, e.g. open source, say in PHP, Perl, or Python to build iCal
items? I thought for sure I could find something on Source Forge, but
have come up blank.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[Robert R Kircher, Jr.]

Sue,

What a coincidence. Just was I was thinking about doing for a meeting
management web site I'm helping to make. I've done some Google
searches trying to find resources to help me build and iCal item, or
the spec. Must be a senior moment, but can't spot. Do you know of
any code availabe, e.g. open source, say in PHP, Perl, or Python to
build iCal items? I thought for sure I could find something on
Source Forge, but have come up blank.

Rob,

Don't know if this helps you but outlook has the ability to save an
event/appointment as an iCal file. So what I'm going to do is add my events
to my outlook calendar and the save them as .ics file and add those files as
links to my website. You need to instruct the end-user to select Open and
when done the event/appointment pops up for the user to save into their
calendar.

If you want you can open the .ics file with notepad and look at the syntax.
Its fairly self explanatory.

 

[Rob Schneider]

Robert,

(as I slap my forehead). Obvious. Terrific idea. Not sure why I didn't
think of that. That will work just fine. Don't have that many meetings
that I can't do it this way. Thanks!!

rms

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

There's a link at the bottom of the page at
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm to the iCal spec. I'm sure if you
do a Google search you'll find some sample code for preferred platform.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Rob Schneider]

Sue,

Thanks for the link to Slipstick. That helps. I *thought* I was a
pretty good Google user, but in this instance, as mentioned in my
original posting, I haven't been able to come up with any code examples
yet...which is why I asked if anyone knew of anything. However, based
on looking at the spec (from the link you pointed me to) and looking and
the files made by Outlook, I think I can work it out.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms