More iCal Integration: Tasks

You've been able to subscribe your calendar to your salesforce.com events for ages now. Well, OK, for almost two weeks now. But that's old news. Starting today (about 3 minutes ago, in fact) you can also subscribe to your tasks, or as iCal likes to call them, TODOs.

My Salesforce.com Tasks (beta)

Just subscribe to this calendar with your iCal-enabled PIM (only Apple iCal has been tested so far), log in with your salesforce.com username and password, set it to refresh periodically (not more than once an hour, please), and make sure to uncheck the Remove To-Do Items option.

Remember, you must be a Spanning Salesforce user to access this service.

If you have any comments, questions, feature requests, or bug reports, just leave a comment here. Thanks!

Comments

[John]

Is this two way? If I complete a task in iCal what happens in salesforce? Anything?

[David Stevens]

Can you make a feed or an option to the iCal feed that will automatically set an alarm? And perhaps can you make an option that we can set what type of alarm gets set? The best alarm, in my opinion, is a message with a sound, but options would be good. Her's the ICS file headers that need to be sent. This would be a life saver. Found it on a Drupal forum

Dave

$output .= "UID:" . ($event['uid'] ? $event['uid'] : $uid) . "\n";
# GPD Alarm Patch
$output .= "BEGIN:VALARM\n";
$output .= "ACTION:AUDIO\n";
$output .= "TRIGGER:-PT15M\n";
$output .= "X-WR-ALARMUID:" . ($event['uid'] ? $event['uid'] : $uid) . "\n";
$output .= "ATTACH;VALUE=URI:Basso\n";
$output .= "END:VALARM\n";
# /GPD Alarm Patch
$output .= "END:VEVENT\n";

[Charlie Wood]

Dave,

That's an excellent idea. I'll see what I can do.

-Charlie

[Charlie Wood]

Ask and ye shall receive! See the annoucement of New Tasks and Events Webcal Feeds with Alarms at

http://spanningpartners.typepad.com/ssf/2006/10/alarms_added_to.html

Thanks for the great suggestion.

-Charlie

[Simon Fell]

Hey Charlie, this is just one way sync right? changes in iCal aren't sent back to Salesforce?

Tx
Simon

[Charlie Wood]

Simon-

Yes, it's one-way so I wouldn't call this "sync" at all. It's simple publish-and-subscribe. But once Spanning Sync for Salesforce (SFDC GCal) and Spanning Sync for Mac OS X (iCal GCal) are both done, you'll have a way to to two-way sync between Salesforce and OS X calendars.

-Charlie