I know it is possible to subscribe to a published iCal through importing an ICS file into the Notes client.
My question is whether I can publish, through a dynamic URL to my mail file, an ICS subscription that can be referenced from another client application which supports ICS subscription.
The idea is that I could access my Lotus Notes calendar through another application - without doing a static time snapshot using the Export to ICS funtion. So if I go to http://servername.com/mail/user.nsf/?customurl-to-ics then I get access to the calendar similar to how I can access my Google Calendar with such a URL.
Subject: Re: Publish
Unfortunately, we do not have an out of the box iCalendar publish a capability today. This is a feature limitation that we are aware of and have had several discussions about. There are some enhancements to our export code that we want to make prior to making a publish feature, but this is very much something that I want to implement and have been pushing for.
While I cannot give you any commitment to this feature or to any release that will contain it, I can promise that I will continue to push to get Notes to make the export enhancements and to ultimately get a publish feature.
Thanks
Nate
Subject: Sharepoint does it…
Just to help in your argument, SharePoint does it out of the box as follows;
http://sharepointserver/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?CS=109&Cmd=Display&List={listID}&CacheControl=1&Using=event.ics
In my environment, we used to be Domino only, but are now branching into extra areas such as Sharepoint, wordpress, drupal etc. Basically looking at best of bread platforms instead of trying to do everything with one. Added to that is our finacial system etc and we need standards complaint systems to allow integration between them all.
Basic support for all of the standard ways to integrate is a no brainer…
JP