![]() One important observation about the time portion: it is represented as UTC time, not local time. First we have the date formatted as YYYYMMDD, followed by a T, followed by the time in 24hour format, hhmmss, followed by a Z. The BEGIN, SUMMARY and END entries seem self-explanatory, but what’s going on with those “DT” entries? Well, as you’ve probably guessed, they’re timestamps. Let’s take a closer look at the body section. Next we have one or more body entries that look like this:Īnd at the very end of the file comes the footer, which looks like this: PRODID:-//FileMaker Pro//NONSGML yourSolutionNameHere//EN At the beginning of the file is the header, which looks like this: ![]() We’re going to create an “ics” file, which is a text file with three distinct elements. Let’s start with a basic table of appointments, like this. I don’t claim that what follows is in any way authoritative, just that it works… and not just with iCal, but with Outlook, Google Calendar and any other program that recognizes the iCalendar format. I’d never done this before, but I did a bit of reading on Wikipedia and elsewhere, and it turns out to be fairly straight forward. The other day I needed to export some appointments from FileMaker to iCal.
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