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PostPosted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 10:01 am
Hi,

I am confused on how this version can link to iCal. I have seen some of the development discussions about this and I am not sure how it works in the final version. I want to have seed code "synced" with ical. with out a plugin if needed.

oreste
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 10:17 am
You'll need to wait until we release Zulu for "synching". The new calendar can show iCal sources within it, along side FileMaker sources. It can also export to the iCal format.

Zulu (which is a server-side plugin) will let you read and manipulate your FileMaker records from within iCal.

There will be more about Zulu here as we get closer: http://www.seedcode.com/next

Hope that makes sense,

John
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 10:36 am
Ok so, how do I import ical into seedcode and then how do export that to ical can read it.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 11:07 am
Rather than import into SeedCode you "show" an iCal url in the calendar. This way you're always seeing the most recent events. You can read more about this here:

http://www.seedcode.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.p ... endar.ICal

SeedCode supports wide range of iCal formats but some that rely upon repeating events may not show up properly.
John Sindelar
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 4:30 pm
Woah dude that is cool. Took me under a minute to do!
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 10:57 am
Ok so my next question, is if I export to ical how does ical see it. The docs allude to a web server.

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 11:04 am
You'd either drag the file into iCal or ftp it to something like the calendar directory of phpiCalendar: http://phpicalendar.net/
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:58 am
Ok cool. Can applescript do this? I tell Fm to save to a file location and the applescript to add it.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:03 am
I'm not an applescript guy but I imagine so. I use ftp plugins, fwiw.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:25 am
any applescript guys out there?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 2:47 pm
Im definitely not an applescript guy either, but have been figuring a few things out with the help of trust old google.. Ive not actually been using a mac for that long (about a week)

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tell application "iCal" to open "/Path/FileName.ics"


Ive just tried this and it opened iCal and asked me which calendar to place the events in.
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