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4: Response to synchronize calendar with outlook 2000 (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on 08/21/01 07:24 PM
Some more points:

  • iCalendar format is a proposed standard by Lotus and Microsoft and is supported by others, too. So supporting this format means that folks will be able to synch with software as diverse as Lotus Notes and KDE"s Korganizer, in addition to Outlook.

  • acs-events should really provide the utility to transform an event into iCalendar format as well as the download filter. Calendar is the only client of acs-events at the moment but there will be other clients as well. For instance, the SDM will want to create releases with dates noted in acs-events. While you'll be able to see these from the calendar page or portlet, you'll also see these in the SDM and there's no intrinsic reason why we'd want to force users to go to the calendar page/portlet in order to synchronize. The SDM should be able to provide the UI to download (say) upcoming release dates into Outlook, too.

    Having the "create iCalendar" utility in acs-events would make this easy.

  • Which means that this should be a service provided by acs-events using the not-quite-finished acs-services-contract package (you wouldn't have to worry about this for a first cut at the functionality).

  • Walter and I only did website->Outlook synch'ing, not the other direction.