I just noticed that Outlook does not allow to import iCal events programmatically.
I might implement some of the iCalendar data format (RFC 55459) if someone is interested
Please post here or click the "Like" button if you think this is a good idea
2019-01-18: Version 0.1:
AutoItSetOption("MustDeclareVars", 1)
#include <..\OutlookEx.au3> ; <== Please modify
#include <Array.au3>
Global $siCalPath = @ScriptDir & "\test.ICS" ; <== Please modify
Global $oOL = _OL_Open()
Global $aFolder = _OL_FolderAccess($oOL, "*\Kalender") ; <== Please modify
If @error Then Exit MsgBox(0, "", @error)
Global $aResult = _OL_iCalImport($oOL, $aFolder[1], $siCalPath, True)
If @error Then Exit MsgBox(0, "Error creating iCal", "@error = " & @error & ", @extended =" & @extended)
_ArrayDisplay($aResult)
Exit
#cs
3.6.1. Event Component
Component Name: VEVENT
Purpose: Provide a grouping of component properties that describe an event.
Format Definition: A "VEVENT" calendar component is defined by the following notation:
eventc = "BEGIN" ":" "VEVENT" CRLF
eventprop *alarmc
"END" ":" "VEVENT" CRLF
eventprop = *(
;
; The following are REQUIRED, but MUST NOT occur more than once.
;
dtstamp / uid /
;
; The following is REQUIRED if the component appears in an iCalendar object that doesn't
; specify the "METHOD" property; otherwise, it is OPTIONAL; in any case, it MUST NOT occur more than once.
;
dtstart /
;
; The following are OPTIONAL, but MUST NOT occur more than once.
;
class / created / description / geo /
last-mod / location / organizer / priority /
seq / status / summary / transp /
url / recurid /
;
; The following is OPTIONAL, but SHOULD NOT occur more than once.
;
rrule /
;
; Either 'dtend' or 'duration' MAY appear in a 'eventprop', but 'dtend' and 'duration' MUST NOT occur in the same 'eventprop'.
;
dtend / duration /
;
; The following are OPTIONAL, and MAY occur more than once.
;
attach / attendee / categories / comment /
contact / exdate / rstatus / related /
resources / rdate / x-prop / iana-prop
;
)
Description: A "VEVENT" calendar component is a grouping of component properties, possibly including "VALARM" calendar
components, that represents a scheduled amount of time on a calendar. For example, it can be an activity; such as a one-hour
long, department meeting from 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM, tomorrow.
Generally, an event will take up time on an individual calendar.
Hence, the event will appear as an opaque interval in a search for busy time. Alternately, the event can have its Time Transparency
set to "TRANSPARENT" in order to prevent blocking of the event in searches for busy time.
The "VEVENT" is also the calendar component used to specify an anniversary or daily reminder within a calendar. These events
have a DATE value type for the "DTSTART" property instead of the default value type of DATE-TIME. If such a "VEVENT" has a "DTEND"
property, it MUST be specified as a DATE value also. The anniversary type of "VEVENT" can span more than one date (i.e.,
"DTEND" property value is set to a calendar date after the "DTSTART" property value). If such a "VEVENT" has a "DURATION"
property, it MUST be specified as a "dur-day" or "dur-week" value.
The "DTSTART" property for a "VEVENT" specifies the inclusive start of the event. For recurring events, it also specifies the
very first instance in the recurrence set. The "DTEND" property for a "VEVENT" calendar component specifies the non-inclusive end
of the event. For cases where a "VEVENT" calendar component specifies a "DTSTART" property with a DATE value type but no
"DTEND" nor "DURATION" property, the event's duration is taken to be one day. For cases where a "VEVENT" calendar component
specifies a "DTSTART" property with a DATE-TIME value type but no "DTEND" property, the event ends on the same calendar date and
time of day specified by the "DTSTART" property.
The "VEVENT" calendar component cannot be nested within another calendar component. However, "VEVENT" calendar components can be
related to each other or to a "VTODO" or to a "VJOURNAL" calendar component with the "RELATED-TO" property.
Example: The following is an example of the "VEVENT" calendar component used to represent a meeting that will also be opaque to searches for busy time:
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:19970901T130000Z-123401@example.com
DTSTAMP:19970901T130000Z
DTSTART:19970903T163000Z
DTEND:19970903T190000Z
SUMMARY:Annual Employee Review
CLASS:PRIVATE
CATEGORIES:BUSINESS,HUMAN RESOURCES
END:VEVENT
The following is an example of the "VEVENT" calendar component used to represent a reminder that will not be opaque, but rather transparent, to searches for busy time:
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:19970901T130000Z-123402@example.com
DTSTAMP:19970901T130000Z
DTSTART:19970401T163000Z
DTEND:19970402T010000Z
SUMMARY:Laurel is in sensitivity awareness class.
CLASS:PUBLIC
CATEGORIES:BUSINESS,HUMAN RESOURCES
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
END:VEVENT
The following is an example of the "VEVENT" calendar component used to represent an anniversary that will occur annually:
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:19970901T130000Z-123403@example.com
DTSTAMP:19970901T130000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19971102
SUMMARY:Our Blissful Anniversary
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:CONFIDENTIAL
CATEGORIES:ANNIVERSARY,PERSONAL,SPECIAL OCCASION
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
END:VEVENT
The following is an example of the "VEVENT" calendar component used to represent a multi-day event scheduled from June 28th, 2007
to July 8th, 2007 inclusively. Note that the "DTEND" property is set to July 9th, 2007, since the "DTEND" property specifies the
non-inclusive end of the event.
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20070423T123432Z-541111@example.com
DTSTAMP:20070423T123432Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070628
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070709
SUMMARY:Festival International de Jazz de Montreal
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
END:VEVENT
#ce
; #FUNCTION# ====================================================================================================================
; Name...........: _OL_iCalImport
; Description ...: Import iCal events to an Outlook calendar.
; Syntax.........: _OL_iCalImport($oOL, $vFolder, $siCalPath[, $bDebug = False])
; Parameters ....: $oOL - Outlook object returned by a preceding call to _OL_Open()
; $vFolder - Calendar folder object as returned by _OL_FolderAccess or full name of folder where the event items will be created
; $siCalPath - Path and file name of the ICS file to import
; $bDebug - Optional: True writes debug messages of processed/ignored properties to the Console (default = False)
; Return values .: Success - two-dimensional one based array with the following information:
; |0 - Object of the created Outlook event item
; |1 - Start date-time of the event item
; |2 - End date-time of the event item
; |3 - Subject of the event item
; Failure - Returns 0 and sets @error:
; |1 - File $siCalPath does not exist
; Author ........: water, mikell (RegExp for "DURATION")
; Modified ......:
; Remarks .......: This function processes the following properties according to RFC 5545 (properties not listed will be ignored):
; DTSTART
; DTEND
; DURATION
; SUMMARY
; DESCRIPTION
; TRANSP
; Related .......:
; Link ..........:
; Example .......:
; ===============================================================================================================================
Func _OL_iCalImport($oOL, $vFolder, $siCalPath, $bDebug = False)
If Not FileExists($siCalPath) Then Return SetError(1, 0, 0)
Local $iEventStart, $iEventEnd, $sEventSubject, $sEventBody
Local $aICS = FileReadToArray($siCalPath)
If StringLeft($aICS[0], 6) = "BEGIN:" And StringMid($aICS[0], 7, 9) <> "VCALENDAR" Then Return SetError(2, 0, 0)
Local $i = 1, $iMaxIndex = UBound($aICS) - 1, $aEventsCreated[1000][4], $iEvent = 0, $oItemCreated
While 1
If $aICS[$i] = "BEGIN:VEVENT" Then
If $bDebug Then ConsoleWrite("BEGIN:VEVENT----------------------------------------------------" & @CRLF)
; Reset all event related variables for the next event
Local $aEvent[10] = [] ; DTSTART[0], DTEND[1], UTC[2], ALLDAY[3], SUMMARY[4], DESCRIPTION[5], TRANSP[6]
Do
$i += 1
If $i > $iMaxIndex Then ExitLoop
Select
Case StringLeft($aICS[$i], 8) = "DTSTART;" ; 3.8.2.4. in RFC 5545
$aEvent[0] = _OL_TranslateDT(StringMid($aICS[$i], 9), $aEvent)
If $bDebug Then ConsoleWrite("Processed: " & @CRLF & " IN.: " & $aICS[$i] & @CRLF & " OUT: " & $aEvent[0] & @CRLF)
Case StringLeft($aICS[$i], 6) = "DTEND;" ; 3.8.2.2. in RFC 5545 - specifies the non-inclusive end of the event.
$aEvent[1] = _OL_TranslateDT(StringMid($aICS[$i], 7), $aEvent)
If $bDebug Then ConsoleWrite("Processed: " & @CRLF & " IN.: " & $aICS[$i] & @CRLF & " OUT: " & $aEvent[1] & @CRLF)
Case StringLeft($aICS[$i], 9) = "DURATION:" ; 3.8.2.5. in RFC 5545.
$aEvent[1] = _OL_TranslateDuration($aEvent[0], StringMid($aICS[$i], 10))
If $bDebug Then ConsoleWrite("Processed: " & @CRLF & " IN.: " & $aICS[$i] & @CRLF & " OUT: " & $aEvent[1] & @CRLF)
Case StringLeft($aICS[$i], 8) = "SUMMARY:" ; 3.8.1.12. in RFC 5545
$aEvent[4] = StringMid($aICS[$i], 9)
If $bDebug Then ConsoleWrite("Processed: " & @CRLF & " IN.: " & $aICS[$i] & @CRLF & " OUT: " & $aEvent[4] & @CRLF)
Case StringLeft($aICS[$i], 12) = "DESCRIPTION:" ; 3.8.1.5. in RFC 5545
$aEvent[5] = StringMid($aICS[$i], 13)
If $bDebug Then ConsoleWrite("Processed: " & @CRLF & " IN.: " & $aICS[$i] & @CRLF & " OUT: " & $aEvent[5] & @CRLF)
Case StringLeft($aICS[$i], 7) = "TRANSP:" ; 3.8.2.7. in RFC 5545
$aEvent[6] = (StringMid($aICS[$i], 8) = "OPAQUE") ? $olBusy : $olFree
If $bDebug Then ConsoleWrite("Processed: " & @CRLF & " IN.: " & $aICS[$i] & @CRLF & " OUT: " & $aEvent[6] & @CRLF)
Case $aICS[$i] = "END:VEVENT"
If $bDebug Then ConsoleWrite("END:VEVENT------------------------------------------------------" & @CRLF)
Case Else
If $bDebug Then ConsoleWrite("Ignored: " & @CRLF & " " & $aICS[$i] & @CRLF)
EndSelect
Until $aICS[$i] = "END:VEVENT"
$oItemCreated = _OL_ItemCreate($oOL, $olAppointmentItem, $vFolder, "", "Subject=" & $aEvent[4], "Start=" & $aEvent[0], "End=" & $aEvent[1], "Body=" & $aEvent[5], "AllDayEvent=" & $aEvent[3], "BusyStatus=" & $aEvent[6])
If @error Then Exit MsgBox(0, "Error", @error)
$aEventsCreated[$iEvent][0] = $oItemCreated
$aEventsCreated[$iEvent][1] = $aEvent[0]
$aEventsCreated[$iEvent][2] = $aEvent[1]
$aEventsCreated[$iEvent][3] = $aEvent[4]
$iEvent += 1
If Mod($iEvent, 999) = 0 Then ReDim $aEventsCreated[$iEvent + 1000][4]
EndIf
$i += 1
If $i > $iMaxIndex Then ExitLoop
WEnd
ReDim $aEventsCreated[$iEvent][4]
Return $aEventsCreated
EndFunc ;==>_OL_iCalImport
; #INTERNAL_USE_ONLY#============================================================================================================
; Name...........: _OL_TranslateDT
; Description ...: Translates DATE or DATE-TIME to YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS.
; Syntax.........: _OL_TranslateDT($sDateTime, ByRef $aEvent)
; Parameters ....: $sDateTime - DATE or DATE-TIME to be translated
; $aEvent - one-dimensional array as used by _OL_iCalImport to return the UTC and AllDay information
; Return values .: Success - formatted DATE-TIME string.
; Failure - Returns "" and sets @error:
; 2 = Pattern invalid. @extended = offset of error in pattern
; Author ........: water
; Modified ......:
; Remarks .......:
; Related .......:
; Link ..........:
; Example .......:
; ===============================================================================================================================
Func _OL_TranslateDT($sDateTime, ByRef $aEvent) ; <== Verbessern, so dass nur ein Rückgabewert notwendig ist
Local $aTemp = StringSplit($sDateTime, ":")
Local $sDTValue
If $aTemp[$aTemp[0] - 1] = "VALUE=DATE" Then
$sDTValue = StringRegExpReplace($aTemp[$aTemp[0]], "(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})", "$1/$2/$3") ; translate last value after the split (YYYYMMDD) to YYYY/MM/DD
If @error Then Return SetError(@error, @extended, 0)
$aEvent[3] = True
ElseIf $aTemp[$aTemp[0] - 1] = "VALUE=DATE-TIME" Then
$aTemp[$aTemp[0]] = StringReplace($aTemp[$aTemp[0]], "Z", "") ; Remove "Z" at the end of the string for UTC
If @extended = 1 Then $aEvent[2] = True
$sDTValue = StringRegExpReplace($aTemp[$aTemp[0]], "(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})T(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})", "$1/$2/$3 $4:$5:$6") ; translate last value after the split (YYYYMMDDTHHMMSS) to YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS
If @error Then Return SetError(@error, @extended, 0)
$aEvent[3] = False
EndIf
Return $sDTValue
EndFunc ;==>_OL_TranslateDT
; #INTERNAL_USE_ONLY#============================================================================================================
; Name...........: _OL_TranslateDuration
; Description ...: Translate the DURATION property and add the values to the start DATE-TIME.
; Syntax.........: _OL_TranslateDuration($sDateTime, $sDuration)
; Parameters ....: $sDateTime - DATE or DATE-TIME to be translated. Format: YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS.
; $sDuration - Duration to be added to the start DATE-TIME.
; Return values .: Success - Calculated DATE-TIME. Format: YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS.
; Failure - Returns 0 and sets @error:
; |1 - StringRegExp: No matches found
; |2 - StringRegExp: Bad pattern. @extended = offset of error in pattern.
; Author ........: water, mikell (RegExp for "DURATION")
; Modified ......:
; Remarks .......: RegExp taken from https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/197397-translate-rfc-2445-duration-format/?do=reportComment&comment=1415924
; Related .......:
; Link ..........:
; Example .......:
; ===============================================================================================================================
Func _OL_TranslateDuration($sDateTime, $sDuration)
$aResult = StringRegExp($sDuration, 'P(?:(\d*)W)?(?:(\d*)D)?T?(?:(\d*)H)?(?:(\d*)M)?(?:(\d*)S?)', 3)
If @error Then Return SetError(@error, @extended, 0)
If Number($aResult[0]) > 0 Then $sDateTime = _DateAdd("w", $aResult[0], $sDateTime)
If Number($aResult[1]) > 0 Then $sDateTime = _DateAdd("d", $aResult[1], $sDateTime)
If Number($aResult[2]) > 0 Then $sDateTime = _DateAdd("h", $aResult[2], $sDateTime)
If Number($aResult[3]) > 0 Then $sDateTime = _DateAdd("n", $aResult[3], $sDateTime)
If Number($aResult[4]) > 0 Then $sDateTime = _DateAdd("s", $aResult[4], $sDateTime)
Return $sDateTime
EndFunc ;==>_OL_TranslateDuration
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