[Dev] Re: [General] Exporting from Outlook

[Stephan Stapel]

Hi Morgan!

> If Outport exports a directory of individual .ics files, Chandler can
> actually import those all at once by pairing a FileSystemConduit with
> a CalDAVFormat object as follows:

[...]

thanks for the code, I'll try it out soon!

> However, this only gets us from Outlook to Chandler, and not the
> other way around, but it's a start.

My impression is that lots of people (like me) have to use Outlook at work
with all those obvious enterprise limitations. Furthermore, I didn't want
to have any private appointments from Chandler within my corporate
Outlook, so for me, one-way syncing would be perfect!

>> For automatic syncing of my appointments, might Cosmo be the tool
>> to check
>> out?!
>
> In the environment you've described, Cosmo isn't going to help,
> unless Outlook becomes a CalDAV client.

But how would it be for the other way around? Could I use Cosmo as the
backend, (automatically) feed my Outlook ics appointments there and view
those appointments through Chandler, Sunbird, whatever?

> P.S. I also came across this Outlook --> .ics exporter...
>
>     http://www.ryanwatkins.net/software/

it seems to be the same as the visual basic macro (outlook2ics) which I
tried. At least that is what the author links to. But I'll try that one as
well!