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MS13
MS13

Reputation: 387

URL for opening a link in a calendar application

This is a html link/href/url when you want to open a link with an email client (like outlook)

<a href="mailto:[email protected]?Subject=Hello%20again">Send Mail</a>

What should be an html link when you want to open the link with a calendar client (like calendar from microsoft outlook or similar calendar application) in order for them to also save some information regarding appointments/events?

Is there a general approach to these urls to be able to open with them different applications?

Thank you

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4693

Answers (2)

Rajesh Kumar Bhawsar
Rajesh Kumar Bhawsar

Reputation: 477

I resolved this by creating below registry entry

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\outlookwebcal]
@="URL:Outlook Add Internet Calendar"
"URL Protocol"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\outlookwebcal\shell]
@="open"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\outlookwebcal\shell\open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\outlookwebcal\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\root\\office16\\Outlook.exe\" /select outlook:calendar"

then markup should be like 

<button id="outlookCalendarBtn" onclick="window.open('outlookwebcal:')">
   Open Outlook Calendar
</button>

Upvotes: 0

napolux
napolux

Reputation: 16094

There's no common link to be used across different calendars (Google, Outlook, etc...) you can work with some of those, but my suggestion is to use free "link builders" like http://addtocalendar.com or https://www.addevent.com for example.

Upvotes: 1

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