RE: Calendars

["STARK, BARBARA H" <[e-mail]>]

In other groups I participate in, they provide instructions for how to subscribe to calendars in commonly-used email apps.

This is how those instructions would be expressed in the context of IETF's calendar.ics:

Apple Calendar:
    "File" -> "New Calendar Subscription".
    Paste " https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/upcoming.ics" and click "Subscribe".
    Click "OK" in new window that pops up.

Microsoft Outlook Calendar:
    "Open Calendar" -> "From Internet".
    Paste " https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/upcoming.ics" and click "Yes". 
    Note: Click left-pointing arrow next to the calendar title for combined view.

Google Calendar:
    Go to Google Calendar.
    Above the list of My Calendars, click the plus sign to the right of "Add a coworker's calendar"
    Click "From URL"
    Paste " https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/upcoming.ics" and click "Add Calendar".

Barbara

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Sparks
> 
> I haven't found anything that we can do at the datatracker to mark the link
> such that a calendar agent would say "oh, maybe the user wants to subscribe
> to this". If someone knows of such a thing, please say so.
> 
> The state of calendaring programs is that users have to go do that explicitly
> (and sometimes corporate policy prevents them from doing so).
> 
> RjS
> 
> On 4/28/20 10:59 AM, Joel M. Halpern wrote:
> > I did the obvious think from the upcoming meetings page.  I clicked on
> > the link.  I then told outlook to accept it as a calendar.
> >
> > I would be happy to subscribe to it instead.  If someone tells me how
> > to do so.  I would suggest someone also fix the page to tell people
> > how to subscribe to it.
> > As it stands, clicking on the .ics link does something ineffective.
> >
> > Yours,
> > Joel
> >
> > On 4/28/2020 11:54 AM, Pete Resnick wrote:
> >> Right. The problem Joel's having is downloading the .ics instead of
> >> subscribing to the URL in a calendar program. You can also customize
> >> the .ics using the "Customize the agenda view" section of
> >> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__datatracker.ietf
> >> .org_meeting_agenda_&d=DwIDaQ&c=LFYZ-
> o9_HUMeMTSQicvjIg&r=LoGzhC-
> 8sc8SY8Tq4vrfog&m=D90goGuJRNOwjZY00Iz5U9WGktnqt_D3jUIT1afnIiE&s=
> xn263DauzdjcKvfM9J85fRkN1jsnQPFBWWSQ2INXQCA&e=  and then copy
> the resultant URL.
> >>
> >> Once you subscribe, you get updates of cancellations and session
> >> moves, so long as you refresh regularly.
> >>
> >> pr
> >