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tdahnert
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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

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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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PennHomes
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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?

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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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PennHomes
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Thanks! It worked!

[Apr 24, 2017, 8:01:49 PM] [50.253.47.199]

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