{"id":63,"date":"2008-09-03T08:31:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T13:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/?p=63"},"modified":"2008-09-03T08:31:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T13:31:31","slug":"generating-ical-files-with-coldfusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/2008\/09\/generating-ical-files-with-coldfusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Generating iCal files with ColdFusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using ColdFusion to generate and mail iCal (*.ics) files. This should be a cinch, as they are really pretty simple text files. However, when I receive the file in Microsoft Outlook 2007, I have no options to add it to my calendar and I see the following message: <strong>&#8220;As the meeting organizer, you do not need to respond to the meeting.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is peculiar, as my address is not the organizer specified in the iCal file, it is only the recipient of the iCal attachment. I&#8217;m going to keep looking into it, but I thought I&#8217;d mention it here in case anyone else is running into the same issue.<\/p>\n<p>The two functions I&#8217;ve found online to assist in generating iCal files are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cflib.org\/udf\/iCalUS\">iCalUS<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/cflib.org\/\">CFLib.org<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planet-source-code.com\/URLSEO\/vb\/scripts\/ShowCode!asp\/txtCodeId!71\/lngWid!9\/anyname.htm\">CF_ICAL<\/a>  (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planet-source-code.com\/\">Planet Source Code<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using ColdFusion to generate and mail iCal (*.ics) files. This should be a cinch, as they are really pretty simple text files. However, when I receive the file in Microsoft Outlook 2007, I have no options to add it to my calendar and I see the following message: &#8220;As the meeting organizer, you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/2008\/09\/generating-ical-files-with-coldfusion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Generating iCal files with ColdFusion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coldfusion","tag-coldfusion-ical-outlook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osric.com\/chris\/accidental-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}