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kartal:
Hi

Has anyone managed to create aliases for Rainlendar calendar application?  I saw that it has a launchy plugin. It would be great if one could use Farr to do the same thing as well

skajfes:
You can add rainlander events trough -a or --add command switch of rainlendar2.exe but is very limited. It only ads events trough default template and does not allow setting categories and such.

I wrote a plugin some time ago that inserts and displays events directly from ics calendars (which rainlendar uses) which has some more flexibility. But it is beta, and abandoned as i really don't have a need for it anymore. If you are willing to wait I can port it to new c# sdk and get it to somewhat runnable state. Or if anyone wants to mess arround with bad c# code i am willing to post the code.

skajfes:
Well i couldn't sleep....

So here goes... I've managed to get the plugin to a runnable state and it should work with no problem. Just unzip it to plugins folder, and go to options and set the calendars.

By default you type "cal " to input an event, "cal todo" to input a task. Dates and times should be recognized normally. You can view existing events or tasks by typing "cal todos" and "cal events". I am not sure if it works correctly but you can do a "cal sum" with additional dates or categories to get a total time of events for a period of time. You can specify categories with "+category", location with "@location",  calendar with "!calendar" and separate description from summary with "|".

If you take a look in the advanced options window (found in plugin properties) you can see a list of calendars along with their name(this is the name the plugin uses to identify calendars), some keywords and some regular expressions. Set the correct calendar path or you'll get an exception. I think that other fields are self explanatory but here goes, you can set which keywords you want to use for adding a task, viewing a list of tasks and events. You can also set regular expressions for recognising dates and times, calendars, locations, categories etc. Defaults work pretty fine so there no real need to change them unless you know what you are doing.

NOTE:
- first calendar in settings is considered default so if no calendar is specified, that one is used.

EDIT: I found an error. i forgot to put the dll in the package..... so here is the updated package.

kartal:
Hey thanks I will give it a go. I am guessing that this actually has nothing to do wih rainlendar and it should work with any .ics file?


Edit

Ok after couple initial tests I could not get it to do anything. I have changed the default calendar to "c:\calendar\share.ics" which I use to share within my network. It does neither read nor write to the calendar. I cannot get the list of events or todos. This is a calendar published by Thunderbird and shared among other apps like Thunderbird and Rainlendar on my network. None of those have any issues witht the data in this ics so I assume that the data structure is intact and complies with the standards.

mouser:
Rainlendar (note spelling) is here by the way: http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php

kartal, what other programs make ics files?

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