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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Stephen Eglen <sje30@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Exporting diary-sexps into icalendar file
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 05:59:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735bcv3xj.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2tu3uigi7.fsf@blur.lan>

Stephen Eglen <sje30@cam.ac.uk> writes:

> I have a simple file, notes.org, with the following content.  (This is
> the example from the org mode manual).
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> * 22:00-23:00 The nerd meeting on every 2nd Thursday of the month
>   <%%(diary-float t 4 2)>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> and this entry then appears once/month in the org agenda, as expected.
> However, when I export to ics, the notes.ics file is effectively empty:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> BEGIN:VCALENDAR
> VERSION:2.0
> X-WR-CALNAME:notes
> PRODID:-//Stephen Eglen//Emacs with Org mode//EN
> X-WR-TIMEZONE:BST
> X-WR-CALDESC:
> CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
> END:VCALENDAR
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I have org-icalendar-include-sexps set to t
>
> Any clues what could be going wrong?

org-icalendar-include-sexps only considers sexp entries, not diary-style
timestamps.

Also, org-icalendar-with-timestamps does not include diary-style
timestamps by default. Only normal active timestamps.

You can try to customize org-icalendar-with-timestamps to t.

-- 
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
Org mode contributor,
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      reply	other threads:[~2022-10-25  6:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-23 17:39 Exporting diary-sexps into icalendar file Stephen Eglen
2022-10-25  5:59 ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]

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