You should file a feature request for RDATE support. The fact that Lotus Notes uses this in creating ics files is compelling.
For what it is worth, I tried to create an event through the API with multiple gd:when elements (like the output when singleevents=true) and although the event was created, it was only created on the time and date of the first gd:when in the data. Ray On Jul 8, 2008, at 5:22 PM, Me wrote: > > According to the RDATE spec (4.8.5.3 Recurrence Date/Times) you can > use the "PERIOD" type (see 4.3.9 Period of Time) to specify multiple > dates/durations. However, Google doesn't seem to support this part of > the spec. I've hoped this would work for a long time (Lotus Notes 8 > uses this extensivly when exporting .ics files) but never heard back > when reporting the problem. > > Here's a single event .ics file that won't import into google > calendar: > > BEGIN:VCALENDAR > X-LOTUS-CHARSET:UTF-8 > VERSION:2.0 > PRODID:-//Lotus Development Corporation//NONSGML Notes 8.0//EN > METHOD:PUBLISH > BEGIN:VTIMEZONE > TZID:Eastern > BEGIN:STANDARD > DTSTART:19501105T020000 > TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 > TZOFFSETTO:-0500 > RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMINUTE=0;BYHOUR=2;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 > END:STANDARD > BEGIN:DAYLIGHT > DTSTART:19500312T020000 > TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 > TZOFFSETTO:-0400 > RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMINUTE=0;BYHOUR=2;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 > END:DAYLIGHT > END:VTIMEZONE > BEGIN:VEVENT > DTSTART;TZID="Eastern":20070206T130000 > DTEND;TZID="Eastern":20070206T140000 > TRANSP:OPAQUE > RDATE;VALUE=PERIOD:20070206T180000Z/20070206T190000Z > ,20070213T180000Z/20070213T190000Z > DTSTAMP:20061220T211705Z > CLASS:PUBLIC > DESCRIPTION: > SUMMARY:This is a meeting > UID:72774819E1F808278525724A00749A38-Lotus_Notes_Generated > X-LOTUS-PARITAL-REPEAT:TRUE > X-LOTUS-UPDATE-SEQ:1 > X-LOTUS-UPDATE-WISL:$S:1;$L:1;$B:1;$R:1;$E:1;$W:1;$O:1;$M:1 > X-LOTUS-START;TZID="Eastern":20070206T130000 > X-LOTUS-END;TZID="Eastern":20070206T140000 > X-LOTUS-NOTESVERSION:2 > X-LOTUS-NOTICETYPE:A > X-LOTUS-APPTTYPE:3 > X-LOTUS-CHILD_UID:62E016A04AB4D48C852572880064BF02 > END:VEVENT > END:VCALENDAR > > > On Jul 8, 5:18 pm, "Austin (Google)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> As far as I know from the ical spechttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txtthat >> if all the instances have the same duration then you can create a >> recurring >> event with RDATEs. Otherwise there is no other options. >> >> Hope that helps, >> Austin >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 5:14 AM, Cobrajs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Is there any way to have an event run on multiple dates, instead >>> of a >>> single date or span? I looked into recurring dates, but RDATE >>> doesn't >>> work, and the dates I'm pulling don't fit easily into recurring >>> event >>> schemes. >> >>> Thanks in advance.- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Calendar Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-calendar-help-dataapi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
