importing ics files (calendar events)

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Andre

Hi,

is there any possibility to import ics-files into the Entourage
calender, the same vay vCards can be imported into the address book?

Regards,

Andre
 
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Paul Berkowitz

is there any possibility to import ics-files into the Entourage
calender, the same vay vCards can be imported into the address book?
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If the .ics file represents just one single calendar event or task (or note,
for that matter), then all you have to do is drag it into Entourage, just
like a .vcf (vCard) file. You just have to assign it the Entourage creator
(icon) first: by default, .ics files will have iCal icons. Select one of
them, control-click it, select Get Info, select "Opens With", choose
Entourage, then click Change All button. Now .ics files will have the
Entourage icon and can be dragged in. So for example, invitations from
Outlook Windows that arrive as .ics attachments will now have the Entourage
icon and van be dragged into Entourage where they will become events
(without the Accept/Decline options of invitations).

But Entourage cannot handle multi-event .ics files. iCal , for some weird
reason, cannot export single events as .ics files: you can't drag them out
either. It exports only entire "calendars" as multi-event .ics files, and
Entourage can't import those. If that's your situation, try my "Sync
Entourage-iCal" script.

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Andre

Paul Berkowitz said:
If the .ics file represents just one single calendar event or task (or note,
for that matter), then all you have to do is drag it into Entourage, just
like a .vcf (vCard) file. You just have to assign it the Entourage creator
(icon) first: by default, .ics files will have iCal icons. Select one of
them, control-click it, select Get Info, select "Opens With", choose
Entourage, then click Change All button. Now .ics files will have the
Entourage icon and can be dragged in. So for example, invitations from
Outlook Windows that arrive as .ics attachments will now have the Entourage
icon and van be dragged into Entourage where they will become events
(without the Accept/Decline options of invitations).

But Entourage cannot handle multi-event .ics files. iCal , for some weird
reason, cannot export single events as .ics files: you can't drag them out
either. It exports only entire "calendars" as multi-event .ics files, and
Entourage can't import those. If that's your situation, try my "Sync
Entourage-iCal" script.

--
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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**2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
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Thank you very much, it helps a lot, because my problem was to import
events I receve in invitations out of Notes or Exchange bassed
systems.

I was talking about Entourage 2004, I ditched the previous versions
because they were too buggy and unstable
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Thank you very much, it helps a lot, because my problem was to import
events I receve in invitations out of Notes or Exchange bassed
systems.
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OK. The first time, drag an .ics file to your desktop and then assign it
Entourage as described above. In future, you'll see the .ics attachments
have the Entourage icon even as attachments in the incoming email. You can
now drag the attachments directly into Entourage Or just double-click them
if you want to see the detail - that will also import them at the same time)
without even having to to drag them to your desktop first.
I was talking about Entourage 2004, I ditched the previous versions
because they were too buggy and unstable
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2004 is certainly preferable in many ways. This technique will also work in
Entourage X however. (And even in 2001, I believe, though there you'd use OS
9's File Exchange control panel to assign Entourage as the app, if you'd
even need to: OS 9 won't know about iCal in any case unless perhaps you're
in Classic in OS X.)


--
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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