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.
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!
Is this two way? If I complete a task in iCal what happens in salesforce? Anything?
Posted by: John | May 22, 2006 at 12:29 PM
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";
Posted by: David Stevens | October 17, 2006 at 07:40 PM
Dave,
That's an excellent idea. I'll see what I can do.
-Charlie
Posted by: Charlie Wood | October 17, 2006 at 07:45 PM
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
Posted by: Charlie Wood | October 20, 2006 at 09:47 AM
Hey Charlie, this is just one way sync right? changes in iCal aren't sent back to Salesforce?
Tx
Simon
Posted by: Simon Fell | October 21, 2006 at 04:29 PM
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
Posted by: Charlie Wood | October 21, 2006 at 05:34 PM