On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 11:31:04PM +0000, Steve Fosdick wrote:
What I'm actually trying to do is to allow two people on a LAN to share a .ics file saved on a server, hardly hi-tech, but I'm really finding it well nigh impossible. A section of a whiteboard would be easier at the moment.
Surely .ics files are not designed to be multi-user. I would expect you would want a server that can maintain a calendar and enable it to be accessed via an open standard protocol and then have the various clients use that. Any .ics file could be imported and it would be useful to be able to export the calendar to be able to move it to a different server in the future.
You may well be right but, for example, reminderfox (a Firefox add-on which provides calendar, reminder and todo functions in Firefox) says that it can 'synchronise' with a remote .ics file using FTP.
It says "Enter an FTP or Webdav address for a remote reminderfox file Example: ftp://www.mydomain.com/reminders.ics
... and lower down
There's a tick box to "Automatically synchronize reminders with network, select this option to automatically keep your local and remote reminders synchronized"
That sounds to me as if it thinks it *can* keep two .ics files synchronized. The longer write up suggests that it's doing 'proper' synchronization too but I must say I can't get it to actually work.