[chandler-users] Importing Outlook Calendar

[Philippe Bossut]

Hi Jerry,

Thanks for giving a try to Chandler. We have been made aware of some 
issues with importing ics files exported by Outlook. There's currently a 
bug logged (https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8931) 
covering some issues we know we have. This bug is slated to be fixed in 
the next update (0.7.1). I'm not sure however that the problem you're 
experiencing is the same.

What would really help us would be to log a bug and attach the .ics to 
the bug. To log a bug, follow the instruction at:
    http://chandlerproject.org/reportabug

Cheers,
- Philippe

Jerry Argetsinger wrote:
> Good Afternoon,
>  
>     I've been a long time user of MS Outlook and for almost as long 
> have been looking for an open source replacement.  When I do switch I 
> want to do so fell-swoop -- Mail, Contacts, Tasks and Calendar.  I've 
> subscribed to the Chandler Users' mail for about a year, and it seemed 
> that with Chandler release 0.7 it might finally be ready for me (or I 
> might be ready for Chandler). 
>  
>     In any case, Thursday I downloaded 0.7.0.1 and gave it a go.  It 
> looks fantastic and it seems to be an improvement over Outlook.  All 
> went well and was even able to connect to the hub immediately. 
>  
>     I did have one problem that is important enough to me to be a 
> non-starter.  I haven't been able to load any calendar event.  The 
> *.ics file is parsed and then fails with "problem with file, import 
> cancelled".  I tried both outport.exe and outlook2ical to create 
> icalendar files from my current Outlook calendar, both as individual 
> appointments and as a complete file.  Same results.
>  
>     I've searched both Chandler faqs/archives as well as using Google 
> to find a solution, but can find nothing that helps.  Can anyone help 
> me with this or is this functionality for later release??
>  
> Jerry Argetsinger