Hi.

I was looking for a way to be able to add custom fields to my google
calendar.  In particular, I'm working on a "lab booking" type
application, and there are other fields that are required like who the
lab is booked by, or what machines they are booking that I would like
to appear right in the calendar.  Since it doesn't look like there is
a way to add fields, I tried to do it via the "description" field by
placing various fields on different lines, but I ran into several
problems:

1) the font of the description field is not monospace, so the entries
don't like up
2) I tried to use basic html constructs like this:

 <b>Machines:</b> machine list

... bolding the "field" names to make them stand out,  but they got
filtered out.

Finally, I at least arranged the various fields, one on each line like
this:

machines: machine1, machine2, machine3
booked by: person1, person2

.  It doesn't look great, but at least the information is there.
However, when I do this, and a user clicks on the field in the web
based HTML iframe, google calendar squishes all the information on one
line and gets rid of the CRs:

machines: machine1, machine2, machine3booked by: person1, person2

argh!

I could link to a web server that stores details, and MAYBE the
description would allow a link (haven't tried it), but then I would
have to maintain the data in two separate places, and I want to be
able to maintain the data in the booking calendar long after it is
removed from the system... (so you can look back and see who booked
what lab).

Google Calendar seems really great... I can't believe that I would be
the only one looking for this type of functionality.

Thanks for any help.


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