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Outlook Calendar Maximum URL Length

I've tested this and it seems that the maximum length of the outlook calendar add event url is 2056 characters.

Could anybody confirm this?

Yahoo rem1 is not working

Cannot add a reminder through the rem1 parameter.

https://calendar.yahoo.com/?v=60&view=d&type=20&TITLE=Opening%20Ceremony&ST=20211115T093000&ET=20211115T103000&rem1=15M

Outlook converts spaces to plus signs (with workaround)

In Chrome and Firefox, when creating Outlook calendar events using a URL like your example:

https://outlook.live.com/calendar/0/deeplink/compose?path=/calendar/action/compose&rru=addevent&startdt=2020-12-31T19:30:00Z&enddt=2020-12-31T22:30:00Z&subject=Birthday&body=With%20clowns%20and%20stuff&location=North%20Pole

Outlook converts all spaces to plus signs in the subject and body. No amount of encoding the spaces in the URL (%20 vs +) makes any difference.

The only workaround I've found is to convert spaces to thin space. The URL encoding is %E2%80%89, and from my testing, Outlook properly renders the thin spaces. No telling whether it affects other Outlook functions, but it's better than plus signs everywhere.

Additional note: I haven't done extensive browser testing, only Chrome and Firefox. I'm not sure if this issue is browser-dependent.

Blank screen after sending outlook invite

Hi, I try using the outlook deeplink, it's actually worked.
But after is press on "send" button, I got a blank screen.
It happened also in Live or 365 version.
It's look like the same link if I used the outlook send invitation button or the deeplink button, but only the deeplink got the blank screen.
Somebody knows how to fix it?

add event URL does not work

[add event URL] unable to bring title and description and so on to event(as blow Screenshots), can you fix this issue or provide a new [add event URL]

Add GoogleMeet URL

Is there a way to add Google Meet URL so it looks linke this:

?

In ics files Google uses X-GOOGLE-CONFERENCE:https://meet.google.com/xyz-xyd for this purpose

Any way to add to iOS/Android

Thanks for this lovely info. How can I use one of these to create the ".ics" stuff for adding easily to mobile OS calendar? Many thanks.

Ampersand in Subject for Outlook Web renders as &

When I pass a Subject with an ampersand, it displays as &

Eg. Birthday & Sleepover percent-encoded to: &subject=Birthday%20%26%20Sleepover

Test link

This seems like a bug on Microsoft's side, but I wonder if you know of any hack that might get around it?

Yahoo is not converting UTC to user's calendar timezone format

ST = 20201231T193000 - 7:30 PM
ST = 20201231T193000Z is also showing same time

here is the. URL(s):

Does not includes (Z): https://calendar.yahoo.com/?v=60&TITLE=Birthday&ST=20201231T193000&ET=20201231T223000&DESC=With%20clowns%20and%20stuff&in_loc=North%20Pole&inv_list=John+Doe+%[email protected]%3E,Jane+Doe+%[email protected]%3E

Includes(Z): https://calendar.yahoo.com/?v=60&TITLE=Birthday&ST=20201231T193000Z&ET=20201231T223000Z&DESC=With%20clowns%20and%20stuff&in_loc=North%20Pole&inv_list=John+Doe+%[email protected]%3E,Jane+Doe+%[email protected]%3E

Yahoo URL does not work

Yahoo link does not work. Opens a blank calendar lightbox.

links are not working on SmartPhone

When I am accessing below link from mobile and its showing me some random time and not the time which I am passing
https://outlook.office.com/calendar/0/deeplink/compose?&path=/calendar/action/composerru=addevent&subject=Self-Guided%20Tour%20at%20DNC%20:%20Meenus%20Res%20Venus%20Villas&startdt=2021-04-08T06:00:00&enddt=2021-04-08T06:30:00&location=DNC%20:%20Meenus%20Res%20Venus%20Villas,%20430%20S%20Fairview%20Avenue%20Santa%20Barbara,%20CA%2093117

How to add custom TRIGGER notification

How to add a custom notification, for example 60 minutes before the event, to a Google calendar hyperlink?

Reference: https://icalendar.org/iCalendar-RFC-5545/3-2-14-alarm-trigger-relationship.html

Outlook showing wrong time for events on mobile

Using this example link: https://outlook.live.com/calendar/0/deeplink/compose?path=/calendar/action/compose&rru=addevent&startdt=2020-12-31T19:30:00Z&enddt=2020-12-31T22:30:00Z&subject=Birthday&body=With%20clowns%20and%20stuff&location=North%20Pole

Will show correctly on desktop but using the same link in iOS (but I'm told this also is a problem on Android) will fail to pick up the correct times. I've tried manipulating the time format in many different ways to get it to pick up without luck.

If I try an event that spams multiple days, using an example like this: https://outlook.live.com/calendar/0/deeplink/compose?startdt=2020-08-12T00:00:00&enddt=2020-08-13T12:00:00&subject=Hello%20World&body=Hello%20World

The end time is correct but the start time is still wrong. From what I can gather it appears to be rounding up to the nearest hour for the start time.

Wondering if anyone else can reproduce this and/or has figured out a workaround for this to work on mobile.

Adding Event to Calendar via Deeplink not functional with Office 365 URL

The deeplink described here used to work some months ago using the outlook.office.com domain (described in the linked doc), but now throws a javascript error and does not complete the action to add the event to the user's O365 calendar.

Clicking the 'Add a test event' link at the top of the doc above works using outlook.live.com, but replacing the domain with outlook.office.com does not work.

Google sprop parameter does not seem to work

Sprops seem to be ignored. They don't show up in https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/calendars/calendarId/events/eventId

add tasks to Google or Outlook calendar

Is it possible to add tasks to Google or Outlook calendar？

Yahoo `et` parameter has doesn't work

Use dur instead.

See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20238235/link-for-sharing-an-event-to-yahoo-calendar#comment54120394_28036433

Does the Outlook Web link work on mobile (iOS)?

Have you been able to get the Outlook Web links to work on iOS?

The test event link works fine on desktop, but on iOS it simply takes me to the calendar page (not the add event page). I would expect it to open the Outlook app if it's available, or otherwise just render the web view for 'Add event' with the details populated, but it doesn't seem to work. Has this worked for you? Or is this simply behaviour that Microsoft have yet to implement? If the later, are you working around this in some way for any of your projects?

Can't specify Yahoo's `type` parameter

https://github.com/InteractionDesignFoundation/add-event-to-calendar-docs/blob/master/services/yahoo.md#type

Looks like they have updated their types list:

Add multi-line body for Outlook Web?

Do you know if it's possible to add a multi-line body for Outlook Web?

For Google and Yahoo you simple pass in the newline value \n (url encoded: %0A). But this doesn't seem to work for Outlook Web. I've also tried \r (url encoded: %0D) and \r\n but neither appear to work.

Outloook stuck in loading state: TypeError when trying to parse query parameters

Has anyone else encountered this and been able to get around it? I guess it happens due to a recent change on Microsoft’s side, and since this is so blackboxed, I’m not really sure how to proceed to get it working again.

meet link

Is it possible to set a meet link too? Thanks.

How to add Recurrence in outlook api?

currently, I am using this API to create an event in outlook:
https://outlook.live.com/calendar/0/deeplink/compose?rru=addevent&startdt=2020-02-13T13:00:00&enddt=2020-02-13T14:00:00&subject=Test+Event&location=Dublin

How to add repeat/recurrence in outlook? It is simple to do in google API but can not find any stuff related to outlook.

Question: Timezone issue in yahoo and outlook

How can we pass custom timezone in yahoo and outlook