How to publish Calendar items to iCalendar format?

ODS iCalendar offers the feature to publish calendar items to iCalendar format for exchange with 3rd party iCalendar compliant applications:

  1. Go to Import/Export menu from the left vertical navigation.
  2. Go to Manage Publications.
  3. Click New Publication.
  4. In the form, enter the parameters as follows:
    1. Name: the name of the publication
    2. Select Refresh type:
      • manually
      • after any entry is changed
      • every [n] hours /days
    3. Select Destination Type:
      • WebDAV? path
      • URL
    4. Enter username and password if needed.
    5. Select Options for Tasks and ToDos?.

Here is sample scenario how to publish Calendar items:

  1. Login at http://myopenlink.net:8890/ods/ as user demo
  2. Go to its Calendar
  3. Go to Import/Export -> Manage Publications -> New Publication
  4. In the form, enter:
    • Name: MyPublication?
    • Leave Refresh Type as default.
    • For Destination Type, choose URL
    • For WebDAV? Path / URL, enter: 

      http://demo.openlinksw.com/DAV/home/demo/mypublication.xml

      • Note that if the file does not exist, it will be created (if you have the right credentials).
    • Enter for username and password: demo.



  5. Click Create.
  6. The publication will be created.



  7. You can click the Sync button to force synchronization.
  8. The Status should now be shown as OK, with the date of execution.
  9. The content of the created file should resemble: 

    BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:GMT+0000
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT +00:00
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:del624f3e197bg22u81i5i4kh0
URL:http://myopenlink.net/dataspace/demo/calendar/demo%27s%20Calendar/1991
DTSTAMP:20080930T144705Z
CREATED:20080630T151931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20080630T183700Z
SUMMARY:repair MIS order data
DESCRIPTION:fixed th
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