How can i access my calendar (.ics file) on internet WebDAV serve

[Guest]

hi,
How can i read/publish my Outlook appointments as an .ics file on a WebDAV
server on the internet ?

 

[Guest]

Hi there Eric

Did you ever get a response from anyone as to how you would do this? We are
trying to find out how to create a new calendar using outlook that gets its
appointments from a remote calendar (webdav and .ics) - any help would be
geatly appreciated.

Thanks
Dean

 

[Guest]

hi Dean,

Unfortunately i didn't have any response.... i installed Outlook 2003: it
can't upload any ics calendar file.... i'm afraid there's no way to that with
Outlook.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook 2003 can open individual .ics items directly or import a bulk ..ics calendar file through it's File | Import and Export command.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

that's right, but can you confirm me that Outlook (all 200x versions) can't
download and uplaod ics file from/on a WebDAV server ?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I'm not sure I understand the question. Outlook doesn't care where an ..ics file comes from. When the user clicks a link on a web page to open such an individual .ics file, Outlook should handle it correctly (although I have seen the occasional small bug -- some element that fouls this up). If you're asking whether Outlook can update its own Calendar folder automatically with iCalendar content from a web server, the answer is no, that functionality is not built into Outlook, although it certainly could theoretically be added with a COM add-in.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

Sue

The later part of your response I think answers my post in Outlook |
Calendaring of yesterday:

(as follows)

We are working on a workflow application that will use calendar clients like
Outlook and Sunbird (current beta) to display appointments for the users
(co-operating as team members).

We have a Webdav / .ics environment configured that we can connect Sunbird
to (File| subscribe to remote calendar) and when we do this we successfully
pick up the appointment information from the remote calendar in a new Sunbird
Calendar - just as planned.

Now .... How do we get Outlook to do this? Can it do this?

(end abstract)

We have a webdav server running with ics calendar appointments representing
the allocation and use of resources. These are assigned using our back end
systems and the ics appointments are used to advise the various people the
resource allocations are for. We have to do this as we have a lot of users
running manu different pims: sunbird betas, Outlook, iCal (mac et al) ,
Entourage, and handheld pims, that we are making appointment and task
information accessible to on a subscribe to basis.

It must be said that a lot, but by no means a commercially dominant number
of users are running Outlook (various recent versions) - and hence where the
grief is coming from.

They are all experiencing the bug you have pointed to (something about a
gregorian calendar setting, which all the ics files are set to) - and the
manual import you are pointing to really is a non-starter - even if it didn't
fail as it is now.

Interested in the com add-on you are suggesting is theoretically possible.

Take a look at Sunbird's subscribe to Remote Calendar functionality.
Essentially it supports multiple calendars being created, each of whose
content is updated by the Update Remote Calendar command or through a
periodical setting (e.g. every 5 mins).

Getting Outlook to do this - I can create the multiple calendars, I just can
get them to get there appointment and task content from the webdav server -
would be huge for us.

Dean

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Since Outlook has no iCalendar subscription feature, you'd have to develop your own mechanism (in a COM add-in would be a good solution) to check the calendar server for new data and parse that data into Outlook calendar items. You could potentially use Outlook's native iCalendar support to do much of the work if you can figure out what correction to the data is needed to overcome the problem that blocks Outlook from performing a manual import of your data.

I imagine that such a solution would be a very popular product!

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

Want to work with us on it?

D

Since Outlook has no iCalendar subscription feature, you'd have to develop your own mechanism (in a COM add-in would be a good solution) to check the calendar server for new data and parse that data into Outlook calendar items. You could potentially use Outlook's native iCalendar support to do much of the work if you can figure out what correction to the data is needed to overcome the problem that blocks Outlook from performing a manual import of your data.

I imagine that such a solution would be a very popular product!

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Thanks, but no. I have my hands full already and am curious to see if Outlook 12 includes iCal subscription capability.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

Cool

I guess you have the connections to find out if Outlook 12 will have this in
- be great to hear if you do find out.

D