VALARM not working in Outlook 2007

[jawandarajbir]

Hi,

I have hit a problem with Outlook 2007 and .ics / VALARM and was
hoping someone could help me out.

I added functionality to subscribe to ICalendar from my website via a
webcal: protocol in Outlook 2007. Everything thing is fine except the
VALARM (Reminder) tag is not working at all in Outlook 2007. I also
found that outlook 2007 doesn't show reminders in the calendars we
export from "Google Calendar" or "Mozilla Sunbird". As I went deeper
into this concept, I found that Outlook doesn't show (import)
reminders at all when there are more than one events in ".ics" file.
For example, I have two files meeting.ics (having single VEVENT
component) and meetings.ics (having two VEVENT components) as follows:

meeting.ics
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//www.attendanywhere.com//Attend Anywhere Pty. Ltd.//EN
METHODUBLISH
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20080401T052436Z
UID:1561FFF1561FFF1561FFF
SUMMARY:test
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CLASSUBLIC
DTSTART:20080410T030000Z
DTEND:20080410T040000Z
TRANSP:OPAQUE
LOCATION:Multiple locations
DESCRIPTION:This is a great meeting
SEQ:633426638763899854
BEGIN:VALARM
TRIGGERT15M
ACTIONISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:REMINDER
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR



and meetings.ics
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//www.attendanywhere.com//Attend Anywhere Pty. Ltd.//EN
METHODUBLISH
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20080401T052436Z
UID:1554FFF1554FFF1554FFF
SUMMARY:MeetingInvitationTesting
STATUS:TENTATIVE
CLASSUBLIC
DTSTART:20080327T050000Z
DTEND:20080327T060000Z
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
LOCATION:Multiple locations
DESCRIPTION:Another great meeting
SEQ:633426638763587150
BEGIN:VALARM
TRIGGERT15M
ACTIONISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:REMINDER
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20080401T052436Z
UID:1561FFF1561FFF1561FFF
SUMMARY:test
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CLASSUBLIC
DTSTART:20080410T030000Z
DTEND:20080410T040000Z
TRANSP:OPAQUE
LOCATION:Multiple locations
DESCRIPTION:This is a great meeting
SEQ:633426638763899854
BEGIN:VALARM
TRIGGERT15M
ACTIONISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:REMINDER
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR



Despite the fact that second VEVENT in meetings.ics is identical to
the only object in meeting.ics.

If I import meeting.ics then it appears to get imported into my
current calender and the alarm is maintained.
If I import meetings.ics then a new calender is created (which I don't
mind) but all the alarms seem to be deleted.

Is this deliberate behviour or an issue with the handling of multi-
event ics files in Outlook?
Is there anything I can do (either to the file or to outlook) to get
the alarms to be imported?

Thanks for reading this post. If you need anymore information please
let me know.

Raj

 

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[Gordon]

Perhaps you may not find the solution.
I got this problem like you. I still try to solve but I'm not quite sure
yet. If I found this will be back to this article again.

If you find out the problem ,please share us your idea how to solve this.

Posted and mailed

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Thank you

 

[p_tucky w]

Thank you Diane

I create my icalendar from my web and I did set VALARM in .ics file code:

BEGIN:VALARM
ACTIONISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:REMINDER
TRIGGERT00H5M00S
END:VALARM

but it doesn't work. This process is getting calendar from Internet calendar.

I use outlook 2007. I've create my own calendar on the web and generate as
..ics file for serving outlook 2007 in part of internet calendar.

At .ics file code format i can set Event Start Date/Time, End Date/Time,
priority, status and etc.
My main problem I can't set alarm to remind before meeting in Internet
calendar but in fact the code format TRIGGER: -PT00H5M00S or TRIGGER: -PT5M
it work only with normal calendar.


Please give me any suggest.
Thank You