Importing Events in the Calendar

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Paul Bishop

I've been unable to find a way to import calendar events (.vcs) from other
applications into the Entourage Calendar. They import fine to iCal but for
some inexplicable reason Entourage is lacking in this ability. Is there
some external utility that will allow me to import events into Entourage??
I'm using Office 2004 running on 10.3.6.

Paul
 
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Paul Berkowitz

I've been unable to find a way to import calendar events (.vcs) from other
applications into the Entourage Calendar. They import fine to iCal but for
some inexplicable reason Entourage is lacking in this ability. Is there
some external utility that will allow me to import events into Entourage??
I'm using Office 2004 running on 10.3.6.
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It depends. If each .vcs is a single event, change the extension to .ics. If
they have the iCal icon, select one, do a Get Info, change Opens With to
Entourage and click Change All. Now all .ics single-event files will import
into Entourage by dragging them in (or double-clicking to open them as
well).

But Entourage can't import multi-event "calendar" files like iCal can.
Import them into iCal then use my Sync Entourage-iCal to bring them into
Entourage. You can get it at

MacScripter.net <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>



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Andy

Hi Paul,

I can't get this solution to work. I've changed the (single event)
..vcs file to an .ics extension, and changed all to open with Entourage.
But dbl-clicking on the event still just opens Entourage (or brings
Entourage to front), and the event isn't added. Dragging the .ics file
to Entourage doesn't do anything. How do we get the import to happen?

Thanks,

Andy

OSX 10.3.7
G4
Office 2004
 
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Paul Berkowitz

I guess these .vcs files must be structured differently than any I'm
familiar with.

You could import them into iCal and run my Sync Entourage-iCal script
(shareware from

MacScripter.net <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

) to get them into Entourage.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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Andy

Darn. Seems like these .vcs things are pretty common in the online
world (like Paul Bishop mentioned above, I get them as part of airline
itineraries as well as when I register for a conference or event).
Running them into iCal --> Entourage via script is workable but not
that great a substitute for just typing the information in to Entourage
-- which is what we're trying to avoid in the first place !

Thanks for the input Paul ... still curious to see a less cumbersome /
more automatic way becomes available, perhaps in a future version of
Entourage or ?

- Andy
 
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Andy

Darn. Seems like these .vcs things are pretty common in the online
world (like Paul Bishop mentioned above, I get them as part of airline
itineraries as well as when I register for a conference or event).
Running them into iCal --> Entourage via script is workable but not
that great a substitute for just typing the information in to Entourage
-- which is what we're trying to avoid in the first place !

Thanks for the input Paul ... still curious to see if a work-around
becomes available ...

- Andy
 
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