Comments on: Generating iCal files with ColdFusion http://osric.com/chris/accidental-developer/2008/09/generating-ical-files-with-coldfusion/ What if Gregor Samsa awoke a computer programmer? Tue, 15 May 2012 14:43:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Julian Young http://osric.com/chris/accidental-developer/2008/09/generating-ical-files-with-coldfusion/comment-page-1/#comment-5276 Julian Young Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:25:40 +0000 http://osric.com/chris/accidental-developer/?p=63#comment-5276 Just tackled this issue myself, it is indeed caused by something in the headers. I didn't quite work out exactly the problem was but fiddling with the headers resolved my problem. Posted up on it here -> http://www.julian-young.com/2009/07/07/php-ical-email/ (It's PHP mind). I used the following for the overall message.. Content-Type: multipart/alternative Content-class: urn:content-classes:calendarmessage and Content-Type: text/calendar;name="meeting.ics";method=REQUEST Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit for the iCal content. Hope that helps anyone else that stumbles upon this post! Just tackled this issue myself, it is indeed caused by something in the headers. I didn’t quite work out exactly the problem was but fiddling with the headers resolved my problem. Posted up on it here -> http://www.julian-young.com/2009/07/07/php-ical-email/ (It’s PHP mind). I used the following for the overall message..

Content-Type: multipart/alternative
Content-class: urn:content-classes:calendarmessage

and

Content-Type: text/calendar;name=”meeting.ics”;method=REQUEST
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

for the iCal content. Hope that helps anyone else that stumbles upon this post!

]]> By: Chris Herdt http://osric.com/chris/accidental-developer/2008/09/generating-ical-files-with-coldfusion/comment-page-1/#comment-180 Chris Herdt Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:33:11 +0000 http://osric.com/chris/accidental-developer/?p=63#comment-180 I think this issue may have to do with how I was attaching the .ics file. I had been using a cfmailparam tag to specify the file and type (text/calendar). When I switched to using the old method (the mimeattach attribute of the cfmail tag) Outlook 2007 let me add the meeting to my calendar. Perhaps this means that text/calendar isn't the MIME type I should have been using. I think this issue may have to do with how I was attaching the .ics file. I had been using a cfmailparam tag to specify the file and type (text/calendar).

When I switched to using the old method (the mimeattach attribute of the cfmail tag) Outlook 2007 let me add the meeting to my calendar. Perhaps this means that text/calendar isn’t the MIME type I should have been using.

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