Well, I spent a somewhat frustrating and unproductive few hours trying to figure out how I can send a calendar item to Gmail and have it add to Google Calendar.
We have a few applications that allow you to open a .vcs file and have it add to your Outlook calendar. I was hoping that I could e-mail this file, and have various web based calendars open this file, too. But it looks like this is not possible.
I can, and probably will use CFEXCHANGE to directly add to people’s calendar, IF they have an exchange account. Sending a .ics file would work for Outlook, iCal, Thunderbird/Sunbird, etc. I worry that the UI is going to be weird, if I have to say: “If you are on campus, do this, and if you are off campus do this, but if you use Google Calendar, do this….”
My plan is to look at some other online services and see what they do. I suspect that all they do is allow you to subscribe to a feed, which isn’t really what I want.
* Sigh *
Tags: calendar, coldfusion, gmail
April 17, 2008 at 1:23 am
hey checkout ray camdens google calendar cfc http://googlecal.riaforge.org/
let me know if you do anything good with the cfexchange api
June 4, 2008 at 10:18 pm
I was just looking into the same thing, for the same reasons (faculty and staff all have Exchange accounts, but the students forward their mail to a variety of places).
GMail seems to recognize the .ics file (it displays a calendar icon in the upper right of the message window), but it doesn’t know what to do with it.
Did you roll your own iCal file creator? I found a dusty CF_ICAL custom tag that’s suitable for testing purposes, but I’m looking for something more up-to-date for production.