SC v5.0 adds iCalendar importing

Importing iCalendar schedules using Splendid City

Splendid City, as of version 5.0 (Lite and Professional) can import iCalendar schedules produced by 3rd party software and create Splendid City project schedules to be analyzed, published (Pro only), or exported as Splendid City xml object files.

ICalendar is a popular cross platform calendering format using by a wide variety of software programs available in the software marketplace. like Apple's iCal , Mozilla Calendar , Novell Evolution , and Microsoft Works . In addition, webmasters can also publish icalendar files using the free open source PHP iCalendar program.

With the iCalendar import features, Splendid City users can create a schedule in Splendid City, export the schedule in an iCalendar format to be imported into their calendaring program of choice.Users may then edit the schedule within the calendar view and re-import the schedule back into Splendid City.

Users may also completely create schedule events (VEvents) within their calendaring programs and import those events as games along with all the associated event objects into a Splendid City project.

SC iCalendar Importing Requirements

In order to successfully import data from the calendar programs described above to SC, certain format requirements need to be met. They are as follows:

1. The calendar entry must by of type VEvent
2. The VEvent SUMMARY should specify the name of the participating teams i.e. "home vs away" (the teams must be separated by a the delimeter '[space] + 'vs' +[space]' to be correctly recognized.
3. The VEvent LOCATION must be defined.

Posted: Tue - June 7, 2005 at 12:51 PM