Re: [Orgmode] ical export

[Carsten Dominik]

On Jun 22, 2008, at 8:38 PM, Cooke Karen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm interested in using the ical export functionality to get todos  
> and appointments onto my new mobile phone.  Todos are appearing in  
> the todo list as I've set org-icalendar-include-todo, however I'd  
> like for the todo's with a deadline associated with them to have the  
> due date set (eg DUE;VALUE=DATE:20080623) and not appear as an  
> appointment as they do at the moment.     I've worked out the  
> function where all this happens is org-print-icalendar-entries but  
> my lisp skills are none existent so any pointers or assistance would  
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> Karen

Hi Karen,

I think you are completely right that the export implementation of  
deadlines does now
not do the right thing for TODO entries.  I think that for entries  
that are not a TODO,
exporting a deadline as an event makes actually sense.  Not so for  
TODO entries.

I have just pushed a new version to the GIT repo that does the  
following.  Thanks for
sharing your thoughts.

HTH

- Carsten

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Changes in iCalendar export
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    Deadline and scheduling time stamps are now treated
    differently in iCalendar export.  The default behavior is now
    the following:

    - a DEADLINE that appears in an entry that is a TODO item is
      used as the item's DUE date.  Therefore, such a deadline
      will no longer show up in the calendar.

    - a DEADLINE that appears in an item that is *not* a TODO
      item is exported as an EVENT and will show up in the
      calendar.

    - a SCHEDULED timestamp in a TODO item will be used as the
      items DTSTART.  Therefore, such a timestamp will not show
      up in the calendar.

    - a SCHEDULED timestamp in an item that is not a TODO has no
      effect on iCalendar export at all.  It will be ignored.

    Of course this would not be Emacs if you could not configure
    exactly what you want.  Take a look at the variables
    `org-icalendar-use-deadlines' and
    `org-icalendar-use-deadlines' if you want to go back to the
    old behavior or even do something completely different.