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Hi @marcoRS. I just added the solution to the FAQ page. May I ask: why do you need to do this? A few other people have asked about this as well.
@nilskp I created biweekly because I didn't like the way the ical4j codebase was organized. It was also fairly easy for me to get the project started because I could base it on my ez-vcard project (the vCard and iCalendar file formats are very similar). One benefit to using biweekly over ical4j is that it is more memory efficient. From what I understand, ical4j cannot handle large iCalendar files very well because it has to read the entire file into memory before it can process it. Biweekly streams the data, which means it requires much less memory. Hope that answers your question!
Hi. I was fighting with the reuccurrences. In my calendar, there are dates that occur every two weeks, but once and a while, one day is off that bi-weekly schedule. How can I still get the recurrence setting so that the user sees that they are related? I was wondering if I can use the RecurrenceId for that? But I have not found any examples or anything in the documentation. Any idea how I can proceed?
Thanks for the quick reply. Hm, I think I have described it the wrong way. What I meant with one day off was that a specific event is not exactly every two weeks but once in a while 13 days until the next event and then the 14 day rule may continue. In other words: I have a sequence of events that follow a pattern such as every two weeks but some of those days may be one or two days earlier or later because of holidays. The best thing would be that I do not need a recurrence rule but could just link those days manually. What would you suggest?
@simonharrer You could use the EXDATE property to define the dates that the meetings will not be held on their normal date (as previously suggested). Then, add an RDATE (recurrence date) property to define the dates in which the meeting date is changed to account for holidays, etc. Does that make sense?
I do have a question if you are around
@mangstadt We've noticed a few cases of clients sending us malformed VTimeZone DTStart values (not matching the local date-time format). As a result, ICalReader.readNext() throws a ClassCastException (java.lang.ClassCastException: biweekly.util.com.google.ical.values.DateValueImpl cannot be cast to biweekly.util.com.google.ical.values.DateTimeValue). I have a junit test and a possible solution in case you are interested. Let me know!
Hello, the site stopped hosting info about the timezones for outlook : http://www.tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/Europe/
I have a question about the library: I'm integrating it in an Android project, but I can't find any instructions for ProGuard
Hi @mangstadt . I want to use your library to create an event with a description that contains a link. How can I set the content to be formatted? I'm trying to follow indications in the following issue, but when I open the generated .ics file in Outlook it doesn't show any content/description: mangstadt/biweekly#71
Here is what I have:
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VEvent event = new VEvent();
final String htmlDescription = "<a href=\"www.google.es\">Dummy link</a>";
RawProperty property = event.setExperimentalProperty("X-ALT-DESC", htmlDescription);
property.setParameter("FMTTYPE", "text/html");