Generate a .ics Outlook file

[pgowder]

Has anyone ever produced an ics file or a link to add an event to someone's Outlook calendar?

I want to allow users to add events from our online calendar to thier own.

Thanks

[mrsmiley]

I would imagine that creating a link to a desktop calendar would be a litle difficult unless you have "Outlook Web Access" enabled at the Exchange server. Even then it would have to be a public calendar and not a personal one (I think).

Never heard of ics files though. I was trying to find a way to do the same thing a while back (sync with outlook/web calendar), so I'd be interested in finding if/how it can be done.

You might be able to do it through the COM interface if you can get the infrastructure working correctly. Probably have to write a DCOM wrapper for it though so you can push the request out from the server to the workstation (if the path if visible and the server is Windows ).

Office intergration can be so "fun" sometimes :S

[launchcode]

You'll need a subscription to the site - but this shows how to do it in ASP, so it can be easily duplicated in PHP + COM.

http://www.asptoday.com/Content.aspx?id=1248

[mrsmiley]

Quick google returned this page ... http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/000496.html

All you have to do is generate ical files which are plain text, so its a piece of cake Its all coming back to me now.

[pgowder]

That's it!! Thanks

Now have you seen how to do it in a link? I know I've recieved links before in email, but I don't remember how it was formatted.

[ldivinag]

IIRC, ics files for ICAL standard are XML files...