Hi,

I downloaded a specification of the vCalendar object from
http://www.imc.org/pdi/pdiproddev.html. Working off the documentation I
have been able to create calendar events.

One problem I encountered was in the TRANSP property. The documentation
claims that this value should be either 0 or 1 (with specific
implementations using larger numbers), while outlook uses TRANSPARENT
and OPAQUE.

I was of the impression that this property would set the FREE / BUSY
object of the appointment. My problem is that even though I changed
this property to Outlook formats, I could never get a FREE setting.

Am I missing on something?

Regards,
Al

That's my understanding, too. Can you reply to this post and paste an example of your vCal file in it?

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Hi,

I downloaded a specification of the vCalendar object from
http://www.imc.org/pdi/pdiproddev.html. Working off the documentation I
have been able to create calendar events.

One problem I encountered was in the TRANSP property. The documentation
claims that this value should be either 0 or 1 (with specific
implementations using larger numbers), while outlook uses TRANSPARENT
and OPAQUE.

I was of the impression that this property would set the FREE / BUSY
object of the appointment. My problem is that even though I changed
this property to Outlook formats, I could never get a FREE setting.

Am I missing on something?

Regards,
Al

Sorry for the delayed reply, I was away.

It seems to be a quirk in Outlook. If the version is not set to 2.0 (in
my case it was set to less) even though the Product ID was not
Microsoft's (I've written my own engine) the option fails.

It is quite easy to reproduce, export a calendar entry to a file, edit
it using a text editor and reimport it.

Regards,
Al