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Posted by tdahnert at Jun 30, 2014, 5:20:30 PM

Need required information for iCalendar files
I'm working on writing my own iCalendar feed for use with localendar. I've tested importing the feed into outlook and into iCalendar validators and it works fine. When I try to import into localendar it says it's not valid. I can't find any documentation on what localendar is requiring. I've tried several versions, but here is a recent one.

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND:20140630T130035Z
DTSTART:20140630T120035Z
PRIORITY:1
SEQUENCE:0
STATUS:Confirmed
UID:5c9919d3-41aa-4627-b8ec-a5434d7f7d6b
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Posted by support at Jul 1, 2014, 8:30:04 PM

Re: Need required information for iCalendar files
The lack of an event title (SUMMARY) or description (DESCRIPTION) are 2 obvious omissions. It's perhaps easier if you just compare against an existing localendar event (you can look at your own calendar export for an example)

BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20140701T202242Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090115T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090115T204500
SUMMARY:St John / Ucon game
DESCRIPTION:Simplest thing would be for you to meet me at the arena
UID:20190619T135754Z-1@ELSIE-CT3
END:VEVENT

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Posted by PennHomes at Apr 18, 2017, 5:45:53 PM

Re: Need required information for iCalendar files
I'm getting an error that says Subject not found in header

Here is a snippet of my header and the first event:
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 15.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-CALSTART:20150501T183000Z
X-WR-RELCALID:{00000018-431F-FFA9-5706-A9002A0B1C71}
X-WR-CALNAME:EVENTS PENN HOMES
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:STANDARD
DTSTART:16011104T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
DTSTART:16010311T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
END:DAYLIGHT
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
CATEGORIES:Around Penn National
CLASS:PUBLIC
CREATED:20170404T123828Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150506
DTSTAMP:20170404T123827Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150505
LAST-MODIFIED:20170404T123828Z
RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;BYDAY=TU;BYSETPOS=1
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:1st Tuesday Food Pickup
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
UID:ai1ec-7@live-timely-waynohui.time.ly
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:FREE
END:VEVENT

What do you think the issue is? Isn't subject == SUMMARY?

Posted by support at Apr 19, 2017, 3:44:47 PM

Re: Need required information for iCalendar files
That error is unrelated to anything you did - it's something on our side caused by an out-of-date file. That should be corrected as of this am.
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Posted by PennHomes at Apr 24, 2017, 8:01:49 PM

Re: Need required information for iCalendar files
Thanks! It worked!