iCal

[diruak]

I noticed that Share has an iCal feature. Does this allow you to import outlook events into Share or can you only download the event list from Share?

[timsiddle]

I havn't had any luck with this. Whilst there is an ical 'feed', outlook (2007, anyway..) won't accept it. It requires the url to end in *.ics, where as the alfresco feed url doesn't do this.

Alfresco also seems to publish ics files to a folder within the site - so you can access this via CIFS if you so wish. However, it creates one ICS for each appointment - again, outlook won't cope with this.

A shame. Share has the makings of an excellent tool. However, for now, it lacks the completeness of a mature application, IMO.

[attymullins]

Actually the iCal Feed is to allow you to 'subscribe' to your Share site calendar from an outside application. I've successfully subscribed from multiple applications (iCal, Sunbird, phpCalendar).

Atty

[mikeh]

Outlook seems to want a non-standard iCal format (thanks, Microsoft). I'll see if I can work out why it's being so picky for v3.2

Mike

[mroloux]

I believe the problem is that Outlook does not support HTTP authentication. When you import the iCal feed with an other calendar client (e.g. Lightning), it prompts for your user name and password. Outlook doesn't do this.

[rays]

Faced with the same issue of no prompting in Zimbra Web Client, I edited the given iCal URL from

http://your.alfresco.server:8080/share/proxy/alfresco-feed/calendar/eventList?site=testsite&format=c...

to prefix the required login info:

http://UserNameassword@your.alfresco.server:8080/share/proxy/alfresco-feed/calendar/eventList?site=testsite&format=calendar

Works in Zimbra. I have no idea if that will help you around the limitation in Outlook but it may be worth a shot?

[mroloux]

Good point, I didn't know you could supply user names and passwords in HTTP URLs.

However, it still doesn't work in Outlook 😞 Most likely because of http://support.microsoft.com/kb/834489

[jimbobcl]

Outlook seems to want a non-standard iCal format (thanks, Microsoft). I'll see if I can work out why it's being so picky for v3.2

Mike

I'm trying the current version Alfresco (v3.3G CE)

I have got Outlook 2003 to download the Share Calendar by using the free addin utility Remotecalendar.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/remotecalendars/

Once installed in outlook click on subscribe a remote calendar and  paste the ical feed url into the addin and then enter the login details. It seems to work okay…

HTH
Jim

[mthomas]

I'm trying to sync outlook 2010 calendar with the Share calendar.  Still have not been able to get it to work.
Sure would be nice if this could happen.

[stevericker]

Does anyone know if this will work yet in either 3.4.c or Enterprise 3.4?  Thanks.