Re: iOS Calendar Question

2013-10-03 Thread Dave
On 3 Oct 2013, at 00:49, Mike Abdullah mabdul...@karelia.com wrote: On 2 Oct 2013, at 19:03, Dave d...@looktowindward.com wrote: On 2 Oct 2013, at 18:56, Alex Kac a...@webis.net wrote: To Safari - probably not. You’d have to bring up the document interaction controller, which would

Re: iOS Calendar Question

2013-10-02 Thread Dave
On 1 Oct 2013, at 14:23, Mike Abdullah mabdul...@karelia.com wrote: On 1 Oct 2013, at 14:09, Dave d...@looktowindward.com wrote: On 1 Oct 2013, at 12:16, Mike Abdullah mabdul...@karelia.com wrote: On 1 Oct 2013, at 12:02, Dave d...@looktowindward.com wrote: Hi All, This had

Re: iOS Calendar Question

2013-10-02 Thread Dave
On 1 Oct 2013, at 18:26, Marcel Weiher marcel.wei...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 1, 2013, at 13:02 , Dave d...@looktowindward.com wrote: http://m.gunwharf-quays.com/whats-on/policing-through-ages If you open the above link on an iPhone and then click the Add to Calendar button, you will

Re: iOS Calendar Question

2013-10-02 Thread Alex Kac
To Safari - probably not. You’d have to bring up the document interaction controller, which would bring up any app that supports ICS - which would bring up the Calendar app. That would do what you want, but it would also invoke a lot more UI…which seems like it’d be simpler to just allow

Re: iOS Calendar Question

2013-10-02 Thread Dave
On 2 Oct 2013, at 18:56, Alex Kac a...@webis.net wrote: To Safari - probably not. You’d have to bring up the document interaction controller, which would bring up any app that supports ICS - which would bring up the Calendar app. That would do what you want, but it would also invoke a lot

Re: iOS Calendar Question

2013-10-02 Thread Alex Kac
Yes it is. That’s why you create a way for it to be something they want to enable. When we talked to Apple about this, they gave us some examples from other apps that they liked. Here is our version (its a link to an image):

Re: iOS Calendar Question

2013-10-02 Thread Marcel Weiher
On Oct 2, 2013, at 19:44 , Dave d...@looktowindward.com wrote: On 1 Oct 2013, at 18:26, Marcel Weiher marcel.wei...@gmail.com wrote: http://m.gunwharf-quays.com/whats-on/policing-through-ages As far as I can tell, that link delivers an ics file, “event.ics”, which is then opened

Re: iOS Calendar Question

2013-10-02 Thread Mike Abdullah
On 2 Oct 2013, at 19:03, Dave d...@looktowindward.com wrote: On 2 Oct 2013, at 18:56, Alex Kac a...@webis.net wrote: To Safari - probably not. You’d have to bring up the document interaction controller, which would bring up any app that supports ICS - which would bring up the Calendar

Re: iOS Calendar Question

2013-10-01 Thread Dave
Hi All, This had reared it's ugly head again! I have been asked to add an event to the Calendar WITHOUT asking the user for permission as the Standard Manner. I basically said it couldn't be done based on feedback from here. However, I've was today shown this (See link below) and asked if they

Re: iOS Calendar Question

2013-10-01 Thread Mike Abdullah
On 1 Oct 2013, at 12:02, Dave d...@looktowindward.com wrote: Hi All, This had reared it's ugly head again! I have been asked to add an event to the Calendar WITHOUT asking the user for permission as the Standard Manner. I basically said it couldn't be done based on feedback from here.

Re: iOS Calendar Question

2013-10-01 Thread Roland King
On 1 Oct, 2013, at 7:02 pm, Dave d...@looktowindward.com wrote: Hi All, This had reared it's ugly head again! I have been asked to add an event to the Calendar WITHOUT asking the user for permission as the Standard Manner. I basically said it couldn't be done based on feedback from here.

Re: iOS Calendar Question

2013-10-01 Thread Dave
On 1 Oct 2013, at 12:27, Roland King r...@rols.org wrote: On 1 Oct, 2013, at 7:02 pm, Dave d...@looktowindward.com wrote: Hi All, This had reared it's ugly head again! I have been asked to add an event to the Calendar WITHOUT asking the user for permission as the Standard Manner. I

Re: iOS Calendar Question

2013-10-01 Thread Mike Abdullah
On 1 Oct 2013, at 14:00, Dave d...@looktowindward.com wrote: On 1 Oct 2013, at 12:27, Roland King r...@rols.org wrote: On 1 Oct, 2013, at 7:02 pm, Dave d...@looktowindward.com wrote: Hi All, This had reared it's ugly head again! I have been asked to add an event to the Calendar

Re: iOS Calendar Question

2013-10-01 Thread Dave
On 1 Oct 2013, at 12:16, Mike Abdullah mabdul...@karelia.com wrote: On 1 Oct 2013, at 12:02, Dave d...@looktowindward.com wrote: Hi All, This had reared it's ugly head again! I have been asked to add an event to the Calendar WITHOUT asking the user for permission as the Standard

Re: iOS Calendar Question

2013-10-01 Thread Mike Abdullah
On 1 Oct 2013, at 14:04, Mike Abdullah mabdul...@karelia.com wrote: On 1 Oct 2013, at 14:00, Dave d...@looktowindward.com wrote: On 1 Oct 2013, at 12:27, Roland King r...@rols.org wrote: On 1 Oct, 2013, at 7:02 pm, Dave d...@looktowindward.com wrote: Hi All, This had reared

Re: iOS Calendar Question

2013-10-01 Thread Mike Abdullah
On 1 Oct 2013, at 14:09, Dave d...@looktowindward.com wrote: On 1 Oct 2013, at 12:16, Mike Abdullah mabdul...@karelia.com wrote: On 1 Oct 2013, at 12:02, Dave d...@looktowindward.com wrote: Hi All, This had reared it's ugly head again! I have been asked to add an event to the

Re: iOS Calendar Question

2013-10-01 Thread Marcel Weiher
On Oct 1, 2013, at 13:02 , Dave d...@looktowindward.com wrote: http://m.gunwharf-quays.com/whats-on/policing-through-ages If you open the above link on an iPhone and then click the Add to Calendar button, you will that it appears to add an event to the calendar WITHOUT asking the user

Re: iOS Calendar Question

2013-09-20 Thread Dave
On 20 Sep 2013, at 02:54, Roland King r...@rols.org wrote: The first is Apple's explicit permissions policy since iOS 6 (so 5 still works but 5 is a small installed base now). You have to ask permission the first time and permission can be revoked by the user randomly on the setup

iOS Calendar Question

2013-09-19 Thread Dave
Hi, I've had a request for the following functionality and I'm not sure from the docs if it is possible, this App is for iOS 5+. The App has presented a number of events in a table view. The request is to add a button to an item that saves it to the User's Calendar. This seems easy enough,

Re: iOS Calendar Question

2013-09-19 Thread Dave
On 19 Sep 2013, at 15:17, Mike Abdullah mabdul...@karelia.com wrote: On 19 Sep 2013, at 15:00, Dave d...@looktowindward.com wrote: Hi, I've had a request for the following functionality and I'm not sure from the docs if it is possible, this App is for iOS 5+. The App has presented

Re: iOS Calendar Question

2013-09-19 Thread Roland King
The answer to both of those is no, with a caveat or two. The first is Apple's explicit permissions policy since iOS 6 (so 5 still works but 5 is a small installed base now). You have to ask permission the first time and permission can be revoked by the user randomly on the setup screen later.

Re: iOS Calendar Question

2013-09-19 Thread Dave
On 19 Sep 2013, at 15:28, Roland King r...@rols.org wrote: The answer to both of those is no, with a caveat or two. Thanks a lot. The first is Apple's explicit permissions policy since iOS 6 (so 5 still works but 5 is a small installed base now). You have to ask permission the first

Re: iOS Calendar Question

2013-09-19 Thread Mike Abdullah
On 19 Sep 2013, at 15:00, Dave d...@looktowindward.com wrote: Hi, I've had a request for the following functionality and I'm not sure from the docs if it is possible, this App is for iOS 5+. The App has presented a number of events in a table view. The request is to add a button to

Re: iOS Calendar Question

2013-09-19 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Sep 19, 2013, at 8:41 AM, Dave d...@looktowindward.com wrote: They are worried most people will say NO and want to avoid it if possible. Then they have missed the entire point of the feature. Ironically, they're doing a fantastic job of illustrating why Apple made it mandatory and

Re: iOS Calendar Question

2013-09-19 Thread Dave
On 19 Sep 2013, at 17:12, Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote: On Sep 19, 2013, at 8:41 AM, Dave d...@looktowindward.com wrote: They are worried most people will say NO and want to avoid it if possible. Then they have missed the entire point of the feature. Ironically, they're doing a

Re: iOS Calendar Question

2013-09-19 Thread Roland King
The first is Apple's explicit permissions policy since iOS 6 (so 5 still works but 5 is a small installed base now). You have to ask permission the first time and permission can be revoked by the user randomly on the setup screen later. I don't honestly recall the details of how you keep