URL for opening a link in a calendar application

Question

This is a html link/href/url when you want to open a link with an email client (like outlook)

<a href="mailto:someone@example.com?Subject=Hello%20again">Send Mail</a>

What should be an html link when you want to open the link with a calendar client (like calendar from microsoft outlook or similar calendar application) in order for them to also save some information regarding appointments/events?

Is there a general approach to these urls to be able to open with them different applications?

Thank you

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5329529/i-want-html-link-to-ics-file-to-open-in-calendar-app-when-clicked-currently-op — j08691, Mar 15 '17 at 15:34

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 15 '17 at 15:37

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There's no common link to be used across different calendars (Google, Outlook, etc...) you can work with some of those, but my suggestion is to use free "link builders" like http://addtocalendar.com or https://www.addevent.com for example.

answered Mar 15 '17 at 15:37

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Rajesh Kumar Bhawsar · Answer 2 · 2018-09-02T13:34:41.287

I resolved this by creating below registry entry

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\outlookwebcal]
@="URL:Outlook Add Internet Calendar"
"URL Protocol"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\outlookwebcal\shell]
@="open"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\outlookwebcal\shell\open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\outlookwebcal\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\root\\office16\\Outlook.exe\" /select outlook:calendar"

then markup should be like

<button id="outlookCalendarBtn" onclick="window.open('outlookwebcal:')">
   Open Outlook Calendar
</button>

URL for opening a link in a calendar application

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