Chapter 12. KOrganizer workshop: Outlook to vCalendar

Randy Pearson <blueboy@bamafolks.com>

Klaus Stärk <staerk@kde.org>

Editor: Eric Bischoff
Revision 3.1 (2002-10-17)

This version of the KOrganizer workshop “Outlook to vCalendar” was released on October 17, 2002. See the ChangeLog for details.

Overview

When moving from Microsoft® Outlook(R) to using KDE's KOrganizer to manage schedules and appointments, you will probably wish to export your scheduling data from Outlook(R) and import it into KOrganizer. Microsoft®'s Outlook(R) program does provide an export option that can save an appointment to the industry standard vCalendar format.

Unfortunately, Outlook(R) will only export the appointment you have selected, one at a time. This is fine if you only wish to transfer a few appointments, but transferring the 200-300 appointments you may have in your Outlook(R) folder would not be much fun. Therefore, Randy Pearson created a small application named Outlook2VCal that can scan and export all the appointments to a vCalendar file at one time.