| Summary: | Outlook refuses to import korganizer's ics files | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] korganizer | Reporter: | stoledo |
| Component: | import/export | Assignee: | kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INTENTIONAL | ||
| Severity: | minor | CC: | andreas.gungl, angel_blue_co2004, christophe, eilers, greg.martyn, grundleborg, mikmach, smartins |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | RedHat Enterprise Linux | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | Perl filter to prepare ical files for OL2000 | ||
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Description
stoledo
2002-04-14 06:16:40 UTC
This is actually not a problem of the encoding field of the calendar file. Outlook refuses to import any file generated by korganizer, even if it doesn't contain utf-8 characters... Reinhold > This is actually not a problem of the encoding field of the calendar file.
> Outlook refuses to import any file generated by korganizer, even if it
> doesn't contain utf-8 characters...
This is true. Even OL2000 fails sometimes to import it's self-created ical events. :-)
But you can import nearly all types of events without problems in OL2000 when you tweak the ical file only a little bit. I'm using a German OL2000 (SP-3) and use a small perl script to workaround basically three minor issues in ical files exported by KOrganizer:
- OL expects a PUBLISH method line
- OL doesn't handle negativ values for VALARM triggers
- OL doesn't handle reminders with value of zero during import (you can create such events in OL2000 though)
I'll attach my script. While I think that MS won't make OL's import filter working, I hope people out there can use it to import KOrganizers ical files into OL. Note that the logic is kept very simple. To allow processing of randomly formated ical files as of Mozilla Calender one would have to reengineer the regexp handling completely.
Created attachment 4000 [details]
Perl filter to prepare ical files for OL2000
To be able to import ical files exported by KOrganizer into OL2000, just pipe
the ical file through this filter. The new file can be read by OL, but OL will
not notice todos (VTODO), only the events (VEVENT).
The problem does still exist in CVS HEAD. I reported the bug. Andreas Gungl wrote: > ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- > You reported the bug, or are watching the reporter. > > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40933 > > > > > ------- Additional Comments From a.gungl gmx de 2004-05-11 17:05 ------- > The problem does still exist in CVS HEAD. > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. *** Bug 54789 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Reassigning all KOrganizer bug reports and wishes to the newly created korganizer-devel mailing list. Is this bug still present in a recent version of KDE, such as 3.5.8 or KDE 4 RC2? Closing due to no response by reporters. Please reopen if this bug still exists in a recent version of KDE, such as 4.0.0 or 3.5.8. Unfortunately this bug still exists. Confirming for KDE 3.5.9 and Outlook 2003 SP2. When trying to import ics file created by KOrganizer Outlook gives message: File can be damaged. Shouldn't this bug be reported to Microsoft instead? *** Bug 113989 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I am not experiencing any problems importing ics files into Outlook 2007 SP1 originally created in Korganizer in KDE 3.5, edited in Korganizer in 4.1 I'm going to close this bug since I have no plans to spend time on KDE 3.5.x and the bug seems to be fixed in KDE 4.1 and above. |