VCalender / iCalender or vCal / iCal

hi all,
i want to send a mail form my Java/JSP application in such a format so
that when the recepient receives the mail in Microsoft Outlook, he gets
a popup window.
then after 'Save and Close' option, the details of the mail should get
updated in the calendar of outlook.
which APIs should i use and what are the steps i should follow?
thanx in advance

My first guess would be to ask Micro$oft
Edit:
I say this because it is easy enough to send an email using Java (see JavaMail API), but any of that other stuff is Outlook specific, so ask them.

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What Apple hasn't explained outside of the developer community is that you are not actually synchronizing applications [like iCal or the Address Book] or servers [like .Mac] or devices [like your mobile handset or a Palm organizer] when you initiate a synchronization. What you are really doing is triggering an interaction with one or more of these and the SyncServices engine, which maintains what is termed the 'truth database'—or simply, the 'truth'—to which is pushed, or from which is pulled, the current state of data maintained in fields and records for one or more specific data types. Because of the way this process works, it is not necessary to have all synchronized devices available or attached when a synchronization event occurs.
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While it all seems clumsy and confusing, it is actually a huge step forward in making synchronization nearly automatic, almost transparent, and virtually mistake proof. It's clear that there is some distance to go before those objectives are achieved, but SyncServices is actually a huge improvement over the prior synchronization technology in iSync 1.5 and earlier.
That said, there are bugs in SyncServices, and in the applications written by several developers to take advantage of it, along with issues in at least iCal, and probably the Address Book, that complicate what you are trying to achieve. It's possible to do, and once working, should work nearly flawlessly. But, it takes some planning to get there.
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If you want a historic snapshot of the data on either Palm device before doing this, first follow the instructions provided by Mark/Space to use the standard Palm conduits instead of Mark/Space Contacts, Events and Tasks, and be sure to set each Palm conduit to Palm overwrites handheld in order to transfer the data from your Palm Vx and Zire 72 to the Palm Desktop. Once there, those records can be exported as vCard and vCal files, and easily imported into the Address Book and iCal if you wish to do that. Edit them as you see fit, once they have been transfered. If you elect to do that, you must thereafter turn off these Palm conduits and reconfigure the Missing Sync to use the Mark/Space conduits, again choosing to have your computer replace the contents on each Palm device on the first synchronization.
Once you've achieved a 'balance' with the records in iCal, the Address Book and your handheld organizers, you can reset the records on your mobile handset. iSync alone performs this function, and later synchronization events with your SONY Ericsson S710a will always be manually triggered, and performed using iSync, not the Missing Sync. Reset once, and subsequently synchronize.
Anything else you want to add to the mix—.Mac Sync, for example—you can then add, initially performing a reset of your .Mac data, then subsequently synchronizing.
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Where did the original VCS file come from? Some systems will create files, but in a format that doesn't match Apple's format (or the standard).
Specifically, if there is a space between the colon and the data value in the vcs file, then ical will complain:
Download the VCS file attachment to your desktop. Double-click on it, ical should see it, but then complain. Check "console.log" via the Console application, and you'll likely see an error like:
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Import To Dos from Palm to iCal

I am switching to a new phone/pda that does not sync with Palm but does with iCal and Address Book. However, I am unable to import my To Do list into iCal. When I try to Export To Dos my only options are as Palm files or Tab & Return. It seems to me that I had once played around with iCal ( just out of curiosity) and that I was able to Import the To Dos with no problem.
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Welcome to Apple Discussions.
I'm afraid that you're stuck. The Palm Desktop has no provision to export task data in any form which can be imported into iCal: it provides only for export as a Palm Desktop file, or a tab-delimited file.
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Hello,
I am an Apple fan and have been so since 1984. I define my self as a difficult user to satisfy an happily most of Apple's products satisfies me very much. iCal's is a rare exception that I find limited and short of featuresand. I find that this product does not live to Apple's usual standards. Since PalmDesktop is a good product that has existed for many years, I don't understand that iCal does not integrate more of it's features.
I have been using PalmDesktop for 5 years and feel this product is great. For sure there is probably some more customising that Apple could do to fit it's need, but I feel 95% of this product is great, simple and customisable.
iCal is short of great features and does not integrate the features we need when we have to organize our daily life. iCal is missing (short list of thiese missings, and I could add more if I thought that it could change something):
a real task management module like PD's one
a fast memo module that would be syncronized automatically with my PDA
a upgrade path from the most used PDA, the PALM device (task from PD software cannot be exported to iCal's limited task module, there is no memo module)
an adress book display that you can customize by department ...
... and the list could continue.
To my point of view iCal is limited and is not a great product ... But as I love what Apple does, and the look and feel of there product, I have tired hard to find a workaround to all my problems, without success. A simple post concerning the possibility to export my task from PD was never answered, and no ressources where found on the net to help.
Am I the only Apple fan to feel this way about iCal ??? Most of Apple's work is simply genious, but iCal's not.
Robert Lespérance

Hi Robert,
I think most of us agree that iCal is not as good as it should be, and like you, I used and loved PD even before it was PD; I actually paid for it when it was Claris Organizer and I'd pay again if it was updated (you do know that it was owned by Apple at one time, right?).
I am waiting for Chronos SOHO Organizer, the successor to Chronos Personal/Group Organizer, a product close to PD in functionality. And it will have group features. Alternatively, I expect iCal 3 to be a big improvement, but I'm not waiting if SOHO proves worthwhile (they say they'll integrate iCal, Address Book, etc.). I still use PD as nothing can replace it yet.
re Tasks from PD to iCal: I suspect folks didn't have an answer, but a reply saying that is helpful so at least you know someone is listening. I don't have an answer either as you can see iCal only imports vcal, vcard, and Entourage data, and PD doesn't export To Do's in those formats. A workaround would be to sync PD with a Palm, then sync the Palm with iCal. I don't know how well this works typically but I'm sure some folks here could tell you, or you could ask at the iSync discussion.

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Hello tay8000m and welcome to the Palm forums.
Have you tried running the "Repair Disk Permissions" command in Apple's Disk Utility application yet? Launch Disk Utility, select "Macintosh HD" from the left side of the window, and then click the "Repair Disk Permissions" button.
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Has anyone experienced this (or similar) situation and if so, were you able to resolve it? I use iCal to manage my calendar on my iPod Touch (syncing via iTunes), and I'd like to have my wife's calendar on there as well, but not have to import or recreate events one at a time. I should also mention that her Treo 650 is not supported by iSync, so that option is out. Thanks for any suggestions you may have.

Please allow me to pile on this thread as I, too, am looking for answers to this problem. I am using Palm Desktop 4.2.2 to export my calendar from my Tungsten T3 to something iCal and my new iPhone 3G can understand, but the results so far have been a pig's breakfast of recurrence errors and birthdays that last two days.

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When I try to sync ical to my iphone it gives me an error message that it could not sync to my iphone b/c the iphone disconnected. Of course, it is not disconnected. I use Palm Desktop but converted it to a Vcal format before I tried the sync. I have the most recent version of itunes. Any ideas?

The reason for the itunes throwing an error of the iphone being disconnected when trying to sync ical, is that the iphone does not like one or more of your events.
One way to find out which one it is:
1. instead of syncing all your calendars at once, try syncing one calendar at a time.
2. when you come across the offending calendar, try setting the feature to not sync anything older than 7 days.
4. If it still does not work, create a new calendar in ical, call it iphone or something
5. sync the iphone to that blank calendar replacing all calendar data
6. create a test event on the iphone and a test event in ical in the test calendar and sync the iphone. This makes sure that ical and the iphone are syncing both ways
7. start moving a few of your events from the offending calendar to the test calendar and sync the iphone
8. keep repeating step 7 until you get the error message that the iphone was not connected.
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