iCalendar export

iCalendar export

[Gustav Wikström]

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Hello!

I like the feature that TODO-items and calendar-items can be exportet to an
iCalendar file. But one thing bugs me, I'm having trouble finding suitable
software that supports the iCalendar-standard with vtodo items...

So my question to this newsgroup is; If you use the iCalendar export
function, what software do you use to view this information? And have anyone
got this information to their mobile devices? Android? Having this
information on the go would be killer...

Regards
Gustav

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Re: iCalendar export

[Tassilo Horn]

Gustav Wikström <gustav.erik@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Gustav,

> So my question to this newsgroup is; If you use the iCalendar export
> function, what software do you use to view this information?

Yeah, I convert to ical files on save, and there's some cron job that
copies these files to some webpage.  From there, I import into Google
Calendar.  But that doesn't show todos of imported ical files and has
major encoding issues with german umlauts and so on.

> And have anyone got this information to their mobile devices? Android?

Well, I have it there using the Google Calendar app.  It's ok to see my
appointments in some graphical read-only view, but nothing more...

Bye,
Tassilo

Re: iCalendar export

[Bastien]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

>> And have anyone got this information to their mobile devices? Android?
>
> Well, I have it there using the Google Calendar app.  It's ok to see my
> appointments in some graphical read-only view, but nothing more...

I use some .ics files the same way Tassilo does.

It's convenient to share with others.

-- 
 Bastien

Re: iCalendar export

[Arun Persaud]

Hi

>>> And have anyone got this information to their mobile devices? Android?

I do a simple two-way sync (well, kind of two-way) using the method
described here:

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-google-sync.html

ARUN

ICalendar export

[Henrik Frisk]

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hi,

I've had an iCal export setup working fine for several years. I have an
org-agenda-custom-commands defined with:

(org-agenda-start-day "2022-09-01")
(org-agenda-span 120) ;; number of days
(org-agenda-include-diary nil))

Recently (not sure when) the ics output came out malformed and a newline is
omitted between the end of one event and the beginning of another:

END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT

is now

END:VEVENTBEGIN:VEVENT

I can't figure out wha the pattern is, for some events the output is
correct.

This is on Org mode version 9.7-pre release_9.6.8-719-gf299fb and emacs 29.1

best,
/Henrik

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Re: ICalendar export

[Ihor Radchenko]

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Henrik Frisk <frisk.h@gmail.com> writes:

> Recently (not sure when) the ics output came out malformed and a newline is
> omitted between the end of one event and the beginning of another:
>
> END:VEVENT
> BEGIN:VEVENT
>
> is now
>
> END:VEVENTBEGIN:VEVENT
>
> I can't figure out wha the pattern is, for some events the output is
> correct.
>
> This is on Org mode version 9.7-pre release_9.6.8-719-gf299fb and emacs 29.1

We recently did some major changes to comply better to the icalendar
specs and introduced new feature. As it usually goes, major changes can
easily introduce new bugs.

Does the attached patch fix the problem for you?


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From 5ab376c558cbd0c1dcdbba99b4a42ff11e27418a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
Message-ID: <5ab376c558cbd0c1dcdbba99b4a42ff11e27418a.1694591956.git.yantar92@posteo.net>
From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 10:58:15 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] ox-icalendar: Ensure that entries in icalendar end with a
 newline

* lisp/ox-icalendar.el (org-icalendar--vevent):
(org-icalendar--vtodo): Make sure that there is a newline after the
exported VEVENT and VTODO.

Reported-by: Henrik Frisk <frisk.h@gmail.com>
Link: https://orgmode.org/list/CAO0LSb4aQhUMny4xr=1LB3t5F-K-WnjK1zc+qR7Jy+69vr2wpw@mail.gmail.com
---
 lisp/ox-icalendar.el | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/ox-icalendar.el b/lisp/ox-icalendar.el
index 980bb0ed3..20efad243 100644
--- a/lisp/ox-icalendar.el
+++ b/lisp/ox-icalendar.el
@@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ (\"PUBLIC\", \"CONFIDENTIAL\", and \"PRIVATE\") are predefined, others
 	    "CATEGORIES:" categories "\n"
 	    ;; VALARM.
 	    (org-icalendar--valarm entry timestamp summary)
-	    "END:VEVENT")))
+	    "END:VEVENT\n")))
 
 (defun org-icalendar--repeater-type (elem)
   "Return ELEM's repeater-type if supported, else warn and return nil."
@@ -952,7 +952,7 @@ (defun org-icalendar--vtodo
 		    (if (eq (org-element-property :todo-type entry) 'todo)
 			"NEEDS-ACTION"
 		      "COMPLETED"))
-	    "END:VTODO")))
+	    "END:VTODO\n")))
 
 (defun org-icalendar--valarm (entry timestamp summary)
   "Create a VALARM component.
-- 
2.42.0


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Re: ICalendar export

[Jack Kamm]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:

> Henrik Frisk <frisk.h@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Recently (not sure when) the ics output came out malformed and a newline is
>> omitted between the end of one event and the beginning of another:
>>
>> END:VEVENT
>> BEGIN:VEVENT
>>
>> is now
>>
>> END:VEVENTBEGIN:VEVENT
>>
>> I can't figure out wha the pattern is, for some events the output is
>> correct.
>>
>> This is on Org mode version 9.7-pre release_9.6.8-719-gf299fb and emacs 29.1
>
> We recently did some major changes to comply better to the icalendar
> specs and introduced new feature. As it usually goes, major changes can
> easily introduce new bugs.
>
> Does the attached patch fix the problem for you?

I can reproduce the bug by calling `org-icalendar-export-current-agenda'
in my agenda buffer. It seems to mainly happen when subsequent agenda
entries originate from different files.

Ihor's patch fixes the problem on my end.

Bisecting, the bug was introduced in f4446ce79.

Re: ICalendar export

[Ihor Radchenko]

Jack Kamm <jackkamm@gmail.com> writes:

>> Does the attached patch fix the problem for you?
>
> I can reproduce the bug by calling `org-icalendar-export-current-agenda'
> in my agenda buffer. It seems to mainly happen when subsequent agenda
> entries originate from different files.
>
> Ihor's patch fixes the problem on my end.

Thanks for testing!
Applied, onto main.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=14bde5aba
Fixed.

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Re: ICalendar export

[Henrik Frisk]

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Den sön 17 sep. 2023 kl 11:49 skrev Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>:

> Jack Kamm <jackkamm@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> Does the attached patch fix the problem for you?
> >
> > I can reproduce the bug by calling `org-icalendar-export-current-agenda'
> > in my agenda buffer. It seems to mainly happen when subsequent agenda
> > entries originate from different files.
> >
> > Ihor's patch fixes the problem on my end.
>
> Thanks for testing!
> Applied, onto main.
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=14bde5aba
> Fixed.
>
> Thank you both, I ran in to some other work issues, sorry for not replying
earlier. Thanks for fixing Ihor!

/Henrik

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