Anyone have a Procedure to produce a Calendar Invite in 6?

Panorama "Classic"
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I have searched everywhere for a reference to calendar invites in the forums, Google, etc. to no avail. If it’s been discussed already, I can’t find it. So I feel it is safe to ask a question I would think someone has already solved.

I built my CRM system over the last 25 years using Panorama and am now constantly getting asked to provide calendar invites to my customers. Before I dive into the lengthy project of building my own generating procedure (adherent to RFC 5545: Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar) ), I was hoping someone had already tackled it.

Of course, if no one has, I would be happy to supply the end result to the community.

Hopefully,

Greg

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If you’re referring to the ics files that can be included in an email, I’ve been doing them in Pan 6 and now in Pan X. It’s not as complex as the reference you found, but more than a quick post here would cover. I got it working originally by reverse engineering the internal structure of ics files created by other apps, then using Panorama to handle the data and save it as a .ics file, and it has worked very reliably.

Without explanation, here’s my code for it. Okay, I will explain that “fg” designates a file global with those values coming from a Panorama form.

Local lviCal, lvName, lvFolder
lviCal = “BEGIN:VCALENDAR
METHOD:PUBLISH
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Head4Web.com//Calendar//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:”+fgEvent+“
UID:”+str(now())+“
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART:”+datepattern((fgStartDate),"YYYYMMDD")+“T”+Timepattern(Time(fgStartTime),"HHMMSS")+“
DTEND:”+datepattern(?(fgEndDate=0,fgStartDate,fgEndDate),"YYYYMMDD")+“T”+Timepattern(Time(fgEndTime),"HHMMSS")+“
LOCATION:”+fgLocation+“
URL:”+fgURL+“
DESCRIPTION:”+fgNote+“
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR”

lvName = datepattern((fgStartDate),"YYYYMMDD")+“-”+Timepattern(Time(fgStartTime),"HHMMSS")+".ics"
savefiledialog lvFolder,lvName,"Save as..."

filesave lvFolder,lvName,"TEXTttxt",lviCal

You can also interface with the Mac Calendar app quite readily using Applescript. Although it’s old, the info at this MacTech page is still valid. I use it to set appointments in my Calendar with reminders or anything else offered by Calendar.

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Thanks, James!

Just what I was looking for. I’ll put it to good use.

Best,

Greg