Online Calendar Functionality
This is EXACTLY the type of functionality I’m looking for in Office 2007! The ability to subscribe easily online to someone’s calendar and receive updates when there are changes. But Microsoft doesn’t just stop there, there given you the ability to decide how you want to use the information as well.
I can subscribe to someone’s calendar as read-only and any time there are changes to the calendar (and I’m connected to the internet), I’ll receive the updates. Or, I can subscribe to a calendar and change it to allow me to edit it and delete the events I’m not interested in, let’s say sports schedules, TV shows, special events, holidays, etc. If updates are made, I won’t receive them, but at that point, it’s probably not as important to me.
I’m hoping this functionality will also integrate well with scheduling functionality built into Outlook. If so, that would solve my recent challenges with the Internet Free/Busy functionality that’s no longer available.
Get all the details from Michael Affronti’s blog on a post by Can Comertoglu, Internet Calendar Subscriptions - Part 1. Maybe in a later post he can answer my scheduling questions.
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POSTED IN: Outlook, Speculation, User Experience
1 opinion for Online Calendar Functionality
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Sep 22, 2006 at 6:53 pm
I looked everywhere for this and it didn’t exist, so thought I’d post it.
When subscribing to an internet calendar in Outlook 2007, it has a checkbox for “Update this subscription with the publisher’s recommendation.” To add/change a publisher’s recommendation, you have to use: X-PUBLISHED-TTL
for example:
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT20M
It only seems to find/update this property the next time Outlooks syncs the calendar - so if you have it set to 60 minutes and change it to 5 minutes, once the 60 minutes is up, it will sync and update the property.
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