From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: Org Agenda and recurring icalendar events Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 10:06:26 +0100 Message-ID: <87lgy9oiy5.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> References: <62f33551936e4c3ea263d0ffbdb2d727@HE1PR01MB1898.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com> Reply-To: Eric S Fraga Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36930) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpu4g-00047V-Bw for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2016 05:25:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpu4c-0007Ti-Pt for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2016 05:25:46 -0400 Received: from mail-eopbgr30135.outbound.protection.outlook.com ([40.107.3.135]:2688 helo=EUR03-AM5-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpu4c-0007TW-9r for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2016 05:25:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <62f33551936e4c3ea263d0ffbdb2d727@HE1PR01MB1898.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com> (cschr@freenet.de's message of "Fri, 30 Sep 2016 08:54:44 +0000") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: cschr Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" On Friday, 30 Sep 2016 at 08:54, cschr wrote: > Hello together > > Im now running Emacs 25.1 with Org 8.3.5 on Windows. I love Emacs and > Orgmode and I want to use it instead of Microsoft Office. But in > order to replace MS-Outlook calendar by Org Agenda, and in order to > sync Org Agenda with my Android phone, I would need all icalendar > functionality, which is used by MS-Outlook and by Android, implemented > in Orgmode. Most urgently missing are recurrence features like RRULE, > EXDATE, DTSTART, DTEND, etc, and import and export of those from and > to icalendar. The current implementation is only rudimentary. Rudimentary but works, at least for me, albeit using Google calendar and not Outlook as the latter is so non-standard that it's a nightmare. Google is marginally better although not fantastic either. With Google calendar, the easiest way to have org and Android/Windows synchronised is to use MobileOrg and have it take care of the synchronisation with the calendar. This will handle many but not all of your cases, specifically excluded dates and end dates for recurring events which org does not support out of the box. Alternatively, you can have two separate processes for synchronisation in each direction: converting from ics to org and vice versa. This has been discussed many times on the list and there is material on worg. > I had sent the below emails via bug-gnu-emacs, but there was no > response =E2=80=93 was it the wrong place to send to ? Not sure whether wrong or not but this mailing list is the best place for discussions of this form as you are requesting a feature as opposed to reporting a bug. --=20 : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.1.1, Org release_8.3.6-1131-gd68497