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The RFC defines iCalendar and has been obsoleted by RFC5545 (Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification) on sept 2009.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2445 obsoleted by http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545

The RFC defines iCalendar and has been obsoleted by RFC5545 (Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification) on sept 2009.

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Difference between iCalendar (.ics) and the vCalendar (.vcs)

I want to send booking information through mail in an attachment to add in MS Outlook. Which format is better? Especially for MS Outlook 2003?
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ICalendar and event updates not working in Outlook

I'm generating ICalendar (.ics) files. Using the UID and SEQUENCE fields I can update existing events in Google Calendar and in Windows Calendar BUT NOT in MS Outlook 2007 - it just creates a second event How do I get them to work for Outlook…
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ics with alert?

Hi I just found out about the ics file format, and I'm wondering whether its possible to include one or 2 alert points in an event entry which will automatically get picked…
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How is RFC 5545 different from RFC 2445

In native Android calendar app, RFC 2445 protocol is used to create .ics files. I found in some blogs that RFC 2445 is replaced with RFC 5545. Can anyone please tell me what are the extra features in RFC 5545 and how it is different from RFC 2445?
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Icalendar ICS update not working in google calendar

I have some trouble with the ICS attachment to Gmail/Google calendar addresses. When I have to edit an event I send an update by mail with an ICS file with the same UID of the original event. However, GCalendar adds a second event. How can I…
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Is there a Javascript iCalendar lib?

Is there an iCalendar library available for Javascript - parser or calendar object itself?
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PHP Date Recurrence Library?

Ruby, Java, and Python all have several very good libraries which allow you to handle rfc2445's rrule very well. I've done an extremely comprehensive search for a class/library which will handle the rrule and return dates of recurrence, however I…
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Start date returns in some cases when using google-rfc-2445 (iCalendar)

I ran through a lot of RRULEs just for testing out the performance of google-rfc-2445 (a Java implementation of IETF RFC 2445 iCalendar). I saw that I got the start date back in some cases in the returning list from the method. The test is very…
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How to get list of occurrence dates from iCalendar RRULE

I have the iCalendar file with RRULE for occurrences. How to get the list of dates on which the event will be occurring as per given start date and RRULE in the iCal file. In Java, I want to write a method which should take start date and RRULE and…
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Recurrence rule definition (RFC2445) question

I'm using Google's RFC2445 implementation (http://code.google.com/p/google-rfc-2445/) for recurrence rules. If I define a MONTHLY recurrence starting on the 30th of January, months with less than 30 days (i.e., February) will be totally skipped. So…
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iCalendar (RFC5545) recurrence rule multiple times a day

How can I make an event occur multiple times a day using the RRULE specified in RFC5545? Lets say I would like an event to happen every other week on Monday and Friday at 11AM and 18PM. Is it possible to format the RRULE like something as the…
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ICS file for Outlook Tasks

Is there an Outlook Task equivalent to the calendar ICS file. Such that when a user clicks on such a file , the Outlook Task window opens up. I searched hard, but looks like there is no standardization for Tasks as it is for the Calendar. Basically…
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iCal feeds & date ranges

I'm trying to understand how iCal feeds & iCalendar clients deal with a large number of events in the past & in the future. Is there any way in which iCalendar clients can communicate a date-range to an iCalendar feed -- so that events outside the…
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iCal Format - storing the event creator

I am currently programming a scheduling application which loosely based on iCalendar standard. Does anyone knows in which property can I store the event creator's information? By browsing through the iCalendar RFC 2445, I find this property:…
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Regex parsing of iCalendar (Ruby regex)

I'm trying to parse iCalendar (RFC2445) input using a regex. Here's a [simplified] example of what the input looks like: BEGIN:VEVENT abc:123 def:456 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT ghi:789 END:VEVENT I'd like to get an array of matches: the "outer" match…
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