Sue
The later part of your response I think answers my post in Outlook |
Calendaring of yesterday:
(as follows)
We are working on a workflow application that will use calendar clients like
Outlook and Sunbird (current beta) to display appointments for the users
(co-operating as team members).
We have a Webdav / .ics environment configured that we can connect Sunbird
to (File| subscribe to remote calendar) and when we do this we successfully
pick up the appointment information from the remote calendar in a new Sunbird
Calendar - just as planned.
Now ....
How do we get Outlook to do this? Can it do this?
(end abstract)
We have a webdav server running with ics calendar appointments representing
the allocation and use of resources. These are assigned using our back end
systems and the ics appointments are used to advise the various people the
resource allocations are for. We have to do this as we have a lot of users
running manu different pims: sunbird betas, Outlook, iCal (mac et al) ,
Entourage, and handheld pims, that we are making appointment and task
information accessible to on a subscribe to basis.
It must be said that a lot, but by no means a commercially dominant number
of users are running Outlook (various recent versions) - and hence where the
grief is coming from.
They are all experiencing the bug you have pointed to (something about a
gregorian calendar setting, which all the ics files are set to) - and the
manual import you are pointing to really is a non-starter - even if it didn't
fail as it is now.
Interested in the com add-on you are suggesting is theoretically possible.
Take a look at Sunbird's subscribe to Remote Calendar functionality.
Essentially it supports multiple calendars being created, each of whose
content is updated by the Update Remote Calendar command or through a
periodical setting (e.g. every 5 mins).
Getting Outlook to do this - I can create the multiple calendars, I just can
get them to get there appointment and task content from the webdav server -
would be huge for us.
Dean
