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Monday, April 24, 2006

 

iCal support

I've just uploaded v0.36a2 which is the second build of RSS Popper with iCal support.

To register iCal feed:
* Open 'Edit Feeds' window.
* Click 'New'
* Select 'iCal' in the feed type list.

RSS Popper creates a meeting request for each meeting in the iCal feed, and it looks like this:

RSS Popper with iCal feed

Since I'm not a big iCal fun, I can't really check this (I'm not aware of many feeds).

The most important features that are NOT supported by RSS Popper 0.36a2 are:
* Events update (if event is changed - no update is sent).
* Time zones
* Recurring events
* Remainder (partial support - never tested)

Comments:
Darn. When you announced this as an upcoming feature I thought you were talking about iCal support the other way: exposing Outlook as an iCal. That I could use, this - eh, not so useful (for me at least). I guess iCal publishing would be considerably more complex given server requirements, etc.
 
Try icalshare.com for various iCal calendars
 
Importing Ical calendars into Outlook is something a lot of people are looking for. MS are going to integrate it for outlook 2007 but for the rest of us who don't want to shell out for a new version this wil be stupidly useful
 
There seems to be an issue with feedburner feeds. Or at least this one in particular:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Livesciencecom

Every time they add an entry, RSSPopper downloads all of the entries over again.
 
When I try to subscribe to an iCal feed such as upcoming.org London events:

webcal://upcoming.org/calendar/v2/metro/49

It doesn't work because of recurring events - how does it work? Does it need only one recurring event in the feed for all of it to be abandoned?

Thanks.
 
Thanks to the anonymous postor for the icalshare link.
 


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