Jesse Vincent wrote: > > On Aug 8, 2007, at 8:25 PM, lists_rt wrote: > >> Hello folks! >> >> First off, I want to thank Best Practical for their brilliant system >> that made my life ten times easier. >> >> My question: has anyone ever scripted the generation of Outlook tasks >> from a *nix platform, either through some dandy Perl/Python/Ruby/etc. >> module or by manually piecing together the necessary message components >> in a script and sending it via SMTP? >> >> I found the following link regarding the creation of Outlook calendar >> entries: >> >> http://www.mavetju.org/programming/outlook-ics.php >> >> I'm working to integrate the calendaring functionality into a custom >> scrip. However, I've been unable to find a similar resource regarding >> tasklist entries instead of calendar entries. (Our staff have >> BES-integrated Blackberries welded to their hips, so Exchange task and >> > > http://search.cpan.org/dist/Data-ICal/ can generate the .vcs / .ics > entries you need to send. You may have to hack RT up a bit to get them > as attachments on outgoing mail > > -j Jesse, thanks for the email.
I checked into things a bit more; apparently Outlook doesn't support ICS's VTODO component :( The code Outlook DOES generate for a task request is, at first glance, a nightmare. I'm going to keep hacking away at this. If I have any success, I'll post any relevant findings/code to the list. -Matt _______________________________________________ http://lists.bestpractical.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rt-users Community help: http://wiki.bestpractical.com Commercial support: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Discover RT's hidden secrets with RT Essentials from O'Reilly Media. Buy a copy at http://rtbook.bestpractical.com