{"id":20,"date":"2008-01-09T09:24:07","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T16:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/09\/mymacworld-calendar-outlook-compatible\/"},"modified":"2008-01-12T10:51:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T17:51:10","slug":"mymacworld-calendar-outlook-compatible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/09\/mymacworld-calendar-outlook-compatible\/","title":{"rendered":"MyMacWorld Calendar, Outlook Compatible"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, the MyMacWorld<\/a> site made by BDMetrics has an “Export to PDA” function that supports Outlook and not iCal. Try and import the ics file into iCal and you’ll get:\"This calendar file is unreadable. No events have been added to your iCal calendar\"<\/code>Guh!? Let’s go back and read the description of what this exporting will get you:<\/p>\n

\nThis exports all your scheduled items in a single, iCalendar or vCalendar file. You may then import this file into any iCalendar-compliant system such as OutlookTM, then subsequently synch to your PDA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh super, Outlook. That’s great for the PC manager who gets sent to MacWorld to see what this Mac hullaballoo is all about, but it’s useless for 95% of MacWorld’s attendees. Are you serious BDMetrics?<\/p>\n

Update:
\nOK After spending way too long looking at Apple’s iCal specs and messing with the tags and blogging the whole thing (and using \u2665 in my URL, so the thing broke on every other browser besides Safari!) I have the solution. But first the reason they don’t work:<\/p>\n

  • iCal will only read VERSION:2.0 tagged files, MyMacWorld is VERSION:1.0\n
  • The iCalendar spec<\/a> call for CRLF ending, they use an LF only\n<\/li>\n

    HA! Of course a spec written in 1998 by an MS employee calls for CRLF line endings! Of course, it makes sense now!<\/p>\n

    OK so here’s the code. Get thee to a Terminal, cd to where your ics file is, and copy and paste following onto one line, and you’ll be good to go
    \nperl -p -e 's\/VERSION:1.0\/VERSION:2.0\/g' ShowCalendar.ics | perl -p -e 's\/(\\r\\n|\\n|\\r)\/\\r\\n\/g' > newShowCalendar.ics<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    So, the MyMacWorld site made by BDMetrics has an “Export to PDA” function that supports Outlook and not iCal. Try and import the ics file into iCal and you’ll get:”This calendar file is unreadable. No events have been added to your iCal calendar”Guh!? Let’s go back and read the description of what this exporting will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-macworld"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}