Does anyone know how to programmatically create an iCal attachment? We are not using Notes Calendaring and Scheduling. Our application is web-based. Users can create a document for a meeting and send that document to other users of the system over the internet. We’d like to be able to take the data from the document, and turn it into an iCal attachment programmatically so that recipients of the memo can add the meeting to their Outlook calendars.
I believe this is possible, I’m just not sure where to begin. Again, we’re not using Notes Calendaring and Scheduling, so I can’t just create it in Notes. Thanks!
An iCal attachment is simply an ASCII file where each line specifies a tag name and a value.
There are also start and end markers for the file. A search on the Internet for sample iCal files should give you a few pointers.
Alternatively you can IMAP enable your Domino R6.x server and retrieve emails using something like Outlook Express using IMAP. There will be an attachment called something like xxxx.ics in the email messages which you can then save and view to get the Domino format for an iCal file.