Export
IC/VC adds a vCard format choice to the Names application and iCalendar and vCalendar format choices to the Dates application. These format options will also show up in applications that are based on the Names and Dates soups, e.g. Dateman.
The iCalendar and vCard format choices are available for any transport that permits sending of text data, including E-Mail and IrOBEX.
Import
Import of received iCalendar, vCalendar and vCard data is possible from the Inbox application when the data has been received by IrOBEX or NHttpLib's Fetch URL transport. Other transports can make use of IC/VC as well if they save the data in body.data slot of an Inbox soup entry and set the body.class slot to '|text/calendar| or '|text/directory|.
Import behaviour is controlled via the preferences panel, accessible from the Inbox application. The preferences specify the action to take when an item to import matches an existing item. Matching is defined as same first and last name for Names and same start date and description for Dates entries. Possible actions are keeping the original and replacing the original entry for Names and Dates. In addition, merging the original and the new entry is possible for Names. This preserves fields with the same values in the original and new data but adds any new fields from the to be imported data. It is further possible to overwrite existing information with new data but keep the rest of the data in a Names entry untouched by chosing the overwrite option.
Automatic Filing
IC/VC can use the CATEGORIES field in iCal and vCard data to file items automatically. Automatic filing is enabled in the preferences. IC/VC will use the first category from the CATEGORIES field as the folder name, other categories are ignored.
Package Import
IC/VC also lets you put away packages downloaded via Nitro or the Fetch URL transport of NHttpLib. Overwriting any already installed package can be controlled via the preferences setting.
iCal Subscription
The IC/VC application is used to subscribe to calendar data in the iCal format. Subscribed calendars are accessed from any web server via HTTP. To subscribe to a calendar, a new subscription item needs to be created in the IC/VC app and at least the URL field needs to be filled in. If the URL is given as a webcal URL, the "webcal://" part of the URL can be replaced with "http://".
IC/VC can file meetings and appointments in different folders which can be used e.g. by DateMan. Filing can either use the CATEGORIES field in the calendar data or items can be filed in the available calendar folders. Subscribed calendars are updated manually via the "Update" menu item in the Action menu. IC/VC can remove existing subscribed meetings before adding new items from the subscribed calendar.
