Alarms in Internet Calendars are not observed

Question

I've found some limited information while searching to see if there is a way to get them working.

The most useful information I have found appears to be this, but having tried moving the Internet Calendar into the same folder that my main calendar is in, I am starting to think that Outlook just doesn't support alarms from iCalendars at all.

Is this the case and is there a good reason for it?

The only plausible reason for it being implemented this way by design I have been able to come up with is that the method outlook uses to decide whether or not an alarm has already been processed includes updating a value in the ics file to say whether or not the alarm has been observed. This would mean due to these types of calendars being read only, outlook can't edit the ics file to say that an alarm has been processed (and therefore they decided not to implement it at all).

Answer 1

This is an Outlook programming forum, is this related to some programming question?

 

What version of Outlook are you talking about?

 

Where is this calendar located? Is it in the default store, and if so what type of store (PST file, Exchange mailbox, Exchange public folder, IMAP store, delegate Exchange mailbox)?

 

Depending on your Outlook version reminder may not fire from anywhere other than your default Inbox, Tasks, Calendar or Contacts folders. Or they may fire from other folders in your default store, depending on the Outlook version, or even from non-default PST files.

 

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Ken Slovak
[MVP-Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007

"andy_b42" <=?utf-8?B?YW5keV9iNDI=?=> wrote in message news:fd74728e-2781-49a2-a21c-f478acaa500a...

I've found some limited information while searching to see if there is a way to get them working.

The most useful information I have found appears to be this, but having tried moving the Internet Calendar into the same folder that my main calendar is in, I am starting to think that Outlook just doesn't support alarms from iCalendars at all.

Is this the case and is there a good reason for it?

The only plausible reason for it being implemented this way by design I have been able to come up with is that the method outlook uses to decided whether or not an alarm has already been processed includes updating a vlue in the ics file to say whether or not the alarm has been observed. This would mean due to these types of calendars being read only, outlook can't edit the ics file to say that an alarm has been processed (and therefore they decided not to implement it at all).

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Ken Slovak MVP - Outlook

Answer 2

Hi Ken, My apologies, no this is not strictly a programming question (I came here on the basis of this being a forum about Outlook for developers). If this question falls outside the scope of this forum, please remove the question and I will find a more suitable place to ask).

To answer your questions:

1. Outlook version is 2010

2. The calendar is an internet calendar our software generates as an ics file (there is no physical ics file, it is regenerated as requested on our web servers).

Thanks

Answer 3

You would need to create the calendar to be loaded as a Calendar folder in the default Outlook store for each user, whatever type of store that is. You didn't answer that question. Only folders within the default store or default or non-default PST files can provide reminders and only from Outlook items within those folders.

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Ken Slovak
[MVP-Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007

"andy_b42" <=?utf-8?B?YW5keV9iNDI=?=> wrote in message news:caef490a-eb41-4091-b284-4b19214937c7...

Hi Ken, My apologies, no this is not strictly a programming question (I came here on the basis of this being a forum about Outlook for developers). If this question falls outside the scope of this forum, please remove the question and I will find a more suitable place to ask).

To answer your questions:

1. Outlook version is 2010

2. The calendar is an internet calendar our software generates as an ics file (there is no physical ics file, it is regenerated as requested on our web servers).

Thanks

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Ken Slovak MVP - Outlook

Answer 4

Hi Andy,

Did you figure out how to make internet calendar subscriptions do popup alerts in Outlook? Would you mind helping me through it if so?

Thanks,