The Apple URL Scheme Reference gives a nice overview of a number of URL schemes you can use to open certain built-in apps with some parameters. I know that this is not a complete list of all possi...

Does anybody happen to know how to subscribe to a server-hosted iCal calendar (such as http://server/filename.ics) from an Android device programmatically? So far I've seen this is possible manual...

When Outlook 2007 and 2010 subscribe to an internet calendar (via a webcal:// link to an iCalendar or vCalendar file), how often do they auto-update? Is there a way to configure this, either in the...

I'm working for this nightclub and are currently making a website for them, they've got lots events and their site is built a lot around events, today they make an facebook event of every event but...

For a recent application, I want to provide the ability to subscribe to a calendar feed while staying on the android device. Going to calendar.google.com and manually adding the http link (ics) isn...

Can an iCal attachment contain HTML in the description property? If so, what are the restrictions?

We need to use JavaScript on the browser to read and parse calendar files (.ics) (also called iCal formats). I wrote a custom function to read these values and then use the JavaScript Date() functi...

I have a website that generates dynamic calendar (icalendar). Lets assume that this calendar is accessible over HTTP at a URL like this http://www.example.com/cal?q=<user query> Everythin...

I'm trying to figure out how to encode newlines in the DESCRIPTION part of an iCal file in such a way that they will import properly into Outlook, Google Calendar and the Apple Calendar. The origi...

I've created a .ics file using iCal .Net. Now i'm trying to send it. When i'm sending it from my Outlook account to another outlook account, it's displayed as an email with attachment (not as a cal...

I have what seems like a very common use case: I want to have a recurring event that occurs at the same time each day in a specific time zone (in the example below, 6:00 AM in the America/Denver ti...

I'm trying to send .ics calendar invites through SendGrid (from Node server) so that it renders in clients like Outlook or Gmail as an actual invitation (with accept/decline buttons) and not just a...

There seem to be two ways to define the end of an event in iCal. One by using duration and the other one by using dtend. Do either of them have any benefits over the other? I can't find any info ot...

Problem Some reoccurring events, that don't really end at some point (like club meetings?), depend on other conditions (like holiday season). However, manually adding these exceptions would be nec...

I am attempting to send a meeting invite to both a user using outlook and a user using google calendar. In both cases, the ICS is recognized as a valid meeting request. In both cases I see the "acc...

Would someone happen to know if Google Calendar has some problems subscribing to iCalendar feeds served on a secure https-address? I'm developing a website running on an https-address that has an ...

I'm pretty new to Python and i'm trying to create a script which gathers data from our database and converts the data into sets. It then takes those sets of data and generates ICS (icalendar) objec...

I have a multi-user website and want to publish an individual icalendar subscription file (.ics) for each user. Our apache server is configured to only provide access over https. One method I hav...

I have made an ICS feed containing a long list of events. My timezone does not seem to work. In the sample below you see that my event should start 07:55:00 and end 09:30:00. This is what it shoul...

I have created a calendar in jquery that exports to ical. However, I am having some issues with the datetime. The ical export script expects the date/time in this format: 19970714T170000Z. Does a...

Case 1 I have hosted a calendar event iCal .ics file on Amazon AWS and the HTTP URL to the same is integrated within my Android app. Here is the file When the user clicks on URL, an intent choose...

I’m trying to target iPhone users and I recently discovered about exportable .ics files as a method to add events/calendars. I have searched Internet for a while and I didn't find a good way ...

I have created an ICalendar file with multiple(10) events. The file validates correctly here and here. It also opens correctly in the Calendar application on OSX. In Gmail, the first event is sho...

Is there an easy way to get a day's events from an ical file in Python? For non-recurring, one day events I have used something like from icalendar import Calendar for event in Calendar.from_ical...

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 up? code: BEGIN:VEVENT...