how to create an iCal that shows time as Tentative?

[CT]

I've been trying to create an iCal that shows the time as Tentative. It
looks like the TRANSP property options are only able to specify Free or
Busy. The following is a sample iCal that I created but which shows up
as "Busy".

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 9.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHODUBLISH
BEGIN:VEVENT
ORGANIZER:MAILTO:[email protected]
DTSTART:20060225T110500Z
DTEND:20060225T130300Z
LOCATION:ATL - ORD
TRANSP:OPAQUE
SEQUENCE:0
UID:1140865500000
DTSTAMP:20051025T022939Z
CATEGORIES:Rearden - AIR
DESCRIPTIONescription
SUMMARY:Summary
PRIORITY:5
CLASSUBLIC
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Your analysis apparently is correct. According to the iCal specification (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt), TRANSP can be only OPAQUE (busy) or TRANSPARENT (free). There is no intermediate value for tentative.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[CT]

Thanks for the reply. Since I can't use the TRANSP property. Is there
any other property that can be used to specify the time as "Tentative"?
The variations I tried are as below. I also tried saving a event that
had the show time as Tentative as a iCalendar format on my desktop.
When I opened the event from my desktop, it showed the time as Busy, so
there doesn't seem to be a way to specify a Tentative time.

variations attempted:
-----------------------------

STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:OPAQUE
....

STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
....

END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VFREEBUSY
ATTENDEE;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE:MAILTO:[email protected]
FREEBUSY;FBTYPE=BUSY-TENTATIVE:20051012T140000Z/20051012T160100Z
END:VFREEBUSY
END:VCALENDAR

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

AFAIK, the iCalendar specification doesn't have anything that does tentative, but you have the URL now, so you can dig into it more deeply.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers