So, is anybody looking into this? I'm going to do my best to keep this
alive. It seems to be the one route for syncing dates with Entourage.
Anybody trying to do this??
on 11/7/01 10:48 PM, John Whitehead at john_at_modestine.com wrote:
> There is a facility in Entourage that allows one to invite another to a
> meeting via email. The same functionality is available in Outlook. It uses
> the vCalendar standard (though this has been enhanced to iCalendar - see
> www.imc.org/rfc2445 ).
>
> If I were to invite myself to the forthcoming London UK NUG meeting I would
> generate an email containing the following (when viewed as source, ignoring
> header and footer type material):
>
> BEGIN:VCALENDAR
> VERSION:2.0
> PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Entourage Mac 9.0 MIMEDIR//EN
> METHOD:REQUEST
> BEGIN:VEVENT
> DTSTART:20011113T200000
> DTEND:20011113T220000
> SUMMARY:London UK NUG
> LOCATION:Imperial College
> DTSTAMP:20011107T091900
> UID:B80EACEC.1A40F%x_at_x.x
> ORGANIZER:MAILTO:john_at_modestine.com
> ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CN="John
> Whitehead":MAILTO:john.whitehead_at_mdal.co.uk
> END:VEVENT
> END:VCALENDAR
>
> If I enter the same information manually into the Newton, using MoreInfo,
> and email it I get a message containing this
>
> Meeting: London UK NUG at Imperial College
> Date: 13/11/01
> Time: 20:00 to 22:00
> Who:
> Where: Imperial College
> Notes:
>
> I haven't bothered to find out what happens without MoreInfo, but I'd
> imagine it's similar if not identical.
>
> The two emails are clearly different, but it wouldn't take much to write
> something capable of translating one into the other (in both directions).
> There'd then be the problem of putting away an email into the Dates app, but
> I'm sure that's documented somewhere (Entourage obviously responds to the
> MIME header and copes with invitations accordingly).
>
> If we had that we'd be able to overcome many of the problems of
> communicating calendar information between Newt and Desktop, Newt and
> Palm/PC thingies (especially if we could beam them) etc. I would imagine
> that John Del Cann is using something like this to do the much more
> difficult job of synchronising dates between Newt and Entourage for a future
> version of Newtourage. But both before and after the glad day when we get
> that functionality, the ability to mail dates in a widely understood format
> would be a boon.
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