Is it possible to subscribe to an iCal feed in Outlook and overlay it in your own Outlook Calendar and show it as busy/out of office for other people when creating appointments?
The scenario is as follows: we have a scheduling program that makes work schedules for our employees. This program can output ical feeds so our employees can subscribe to those feeds on their mobile phones. At our office we work with Outlook and we would like that the iCal feed would also be displayed and updated dynamically on every employees calendar. For the employee this is visible but not for other people trying to create an appointment via Outlook.
Best regards,
Rémy
You'd have to have two kinds of feeds:
one normal one with all the details for the individuals feed, that perhaps
only they know the url for, and
another feed that issues VFREEBUSY components https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5545#page-60 instead of VEVENTS. THE VFREEBUSY component then just has the FREEBUSY info
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I know there is some way to create a feed of calendar events that users can add to their calendars and have new events be automatically added to their calendars. I don't know the name of the technology used and searching wasn't bringing up much.
What is the technology used for creating these calendar feeds?
Found the thing I was looking for. It's called CalDav and uses the iCal format for data.
Some more info on Wikipedia.
I have a calendar app for which I provide subscriptions by linking client using the "webcal://" protocol. It's working quite nicely. What I'd like to know is if there is a way title it in the receiving calendar application, such as Outlook, iPhone, Google, etc?
Currently, when loaded into Outlook it is displayed as the name of the web script from which it came. For instance if the script is (using ColdFusion) Create_ICS_File.cfm then Outlook shows it as "Create_ICS_File in Internet Calendars".
On the iPhone it shows up in Calendar as the full web address including URL variables. For example: mywebsite.com/Create_ICS_File.cfm?calid=4329-32
Is the a way, in the ICS file or otherwise, to set a title on these subscriptions?
Using the X-WR-CALNAME - The display name of the calendar
should do the trick
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar#Calendar_extensions.
See also
How do I change the display name of an iCalendar in Outlook?
I'm interested in using Redmine for a scheduling/rental system and I'm running into a particular issue with the calendar that's slightly annoying.
On the calendar, I'd like the ability to choose the fields that appear in the default view but I'm not sure how to go about doing that. I'd ideally like to have the Subject be the main link instead of the tracker and issue id.
Any way to modify which fields Redmine displays on the calendar?
Easyredmine has a customizable calendar plugin which can show calendar events by the name you have choosen. I'm not sure if it has options to show already created issues with your preferable field as title.
http://www.easyredmine.com/online-store/easy-redmine-plugins/meeting-manager
I am writing an application that provides a calendar feed for people to subscribe to. Changes may be made to the calendar feed up to moments before the event occurs, and it would be really nice if those changes could be propagated out to all subscribers when this happens.
The only solution I have today is to provide an iCal format so that people can add it to their Google calendars (the most popular for my target audience), but Google calendar seems to be especially slow to notice changes.
Is there a way to force Google calendar to re crawl my url if a change occurs?
Is there another way to provide a calendar feed to people that may work better for my needs?
I'm not sure what technology you are using, but have a look at the Google Calendar Data API.
The Calendar Data API lets you incorporate Calendar functionality into your own application or website. You can edit calendars, create and delete events, send invitations, and more.
We're looking for a standalone (non-cms) calendaring solution to display on the web. It could be open source or a paid service.
We're primarily looking for a way to display a calendar on the web complete with when the events are and what the names of the events are. It would be great if it can display in different views like by week, month, year. Month view would be the most important one. We want to keep it as simple as possible. We mainly just want users to view the calendar. The events do not even have to be editable on the end user's side just as long as there is some way for us on the backend to add/delete/import events into the calendar whether it be through .ics (iCal files)/desktop software/via some web interface. We know Google Calendar is around and there is also PHPiCalendar. Are there any other alternatives around?
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Thanks!
Here's a pretty cool calendar built on jQuery.
http://arshaw.com/fullcalendar/
Laszlo Webtop has a cool calendar app:
http://www.laszlosystems.com/products/webtop/webtop_nexxus
WebCalendar, WebIcal