Re: Calendar export questions (ical & html)

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com>
Cc: Bastien <bastienguerry@googlemail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Calendar export questions (ical & html)
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 15:48:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DFAA405B-06B3-479C-BD90-076656EB45EF@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4a6ea90b.0637560a.56c8.ffff9a19@mx.google.com>

Hi,

maybe someone could turn this information into a tutorial
or a FAQ entry?  I think it would be useful to write it up
and have it somewhere accessible.

- Carsten

On Jul 28, 2009, at 9:30 AM, Richard Riley wrote:

> Bastien <bastienguerry@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi Michel,
>>
>> Michel Blanc <mblanc@erasme.org> writes:
>>
>>> First, I discovered that all the calendar applications I tried do  
>>> not
>>> show TODO entries (Google Agenda, PHP-iCalndar, Thunderbird, ...)
>>> *inside* the day/week/... view, but in sidebars or so (when the do).
>>> However, I am required to publish my agenda on GoogleAgenda (using  
>>> "Add
>>> by URL"). Is there any way to export TODO entries as VEVENT  
>>> instead of
>>> VTODO in ical exports, so they get showed in external apps ?
>>
>> A todo like this
>>
>> * TODO Do this
>>  <2009-07-28 mar>
>>
>> will be exported both as a VTODO and as a VEVENT.
>>
>> Note that this is not the case for DEADLINE and SCHEDULED, maybe the
>> code need to be more consistent about this.
>>
>>> Also, the HTML exports for my agenda contains nothing but TODO's,
>>> without any date (see example here
>>> http://leucos.lstilde.org/workcal.html). There are many
>>> SCHEDULED/DEADLINE enabled entries, but nothing is shown besides
>>> hierarchy. I suspect I'm off the mark in some way here...
>>
>> There are several types of agenda views: the tags and tags-todo types
>> don't display the dates, but the agenda type does.
>>
>> Usually, when I need to display the dates in a tags-todo type view, I
>> just switch on the column view.  But for now there is no way to store
>> the dates in the HTML output of the tags-todo agenda view, the way to
>> go is to define an agenda-type view.
>>
>>> Finally, is there a way to customize the agenda name (i.e. X-WR- 
>>> CALNAME
>>> in the ICS file) ? I export 2 different ics files (the classic
>>> personal/work duo) and I would like to set relevant names for them.
>>
>> Again, sorry to disappoint but the answer is no -- at least not to my
>> knowledge.
>>
>> HTH,
>
> FYI and still half asleep here, I think you can do the name. here is  
> my
> ical cust section:
>
>
>      org-combined-agenda-icalendar-file "~/webs/richardriley/sync/ 
> org.ics"
>      org-icalendar-include-todo t
>      org-icalendar-combined-name (quote "Richard Riley ORG")
>      org-icalendar-use-scheduled '(todo-due  event-if-todo event-if- 
> not-todo)
>      org-icalendar-use-deadline '(todo-due event-if-todo event-if- 
> not-todo)
>      org-icalendar-timezone "Europe/Berlin"
>      org-icalendar-include-bbdb-anniversaries t
> ;      org-icalendar-timezone nil
>      org-icalendar-store-UID t
>
>
> hth
>
>
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