Ics Alarms Not Displayed in Google Calendar or Outlook

Question

I am a little surprised that I did not find a solution or answer to this question, because there seem to be a lot of developers who are experiencing it.

I am creating an ics file using DDay.ical, but VALARMS does not configure reminders in Google Calendar or Outlook 2007.

Here is a snippet from the ics file

Thanks in advance for your help, sniffing an explanation or a fix.

BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:REQUEST PRODID:-//ddaysoftware.com//NONSGML DDay.iCal 1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20110911T134152Z DESCRIPTION:\n\n-----------------------------------\nClient Name:No Client was selected\n Email: \n Phone:\n Alt Phone: DTEND:20110911T203000Z DTSTAMP:20110911T183854 DTSTART:20110911T200000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110911T134152Z LOCATION:Facebook Ad ORGANIZER;CN=XXX XXXXXX;SENT-BY="MailTo:[e-mail]" : SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Marketing - Print Ad @ Facebook Ad UID:cd9a1618-aeb1-4ec2-8f6a-64989950ea9c BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:Display DESCRIPTION:1:45 TRIGGER:PT15M END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR 

Answer 1

If VALARM does not work, double check that the end line used is \r\n , and not just \n , as shown incorrectly in many examples on the Internet.

For more details, see my answer to a similar question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/416829/

Answer 2

I had the same problem in Outlook 2010. For some reason, if you open the .ics file directly (and create a new calendar), it will lose all reminders. However, if you use the file-> import 'method (' file-> open-> import 'in 2010), select the .ics file and “import” into your existing calendar, it will save the reminders. I think this is completely confused with part of Microsoft, but hopefully this will work for you. I can’t answer about the Google calendar, but maybe it looks like?

here is a link on how to import the calendar into Outlook so that it can integrate into your current calendar: http://help.unc.edu/CCM3_022163