Bug 156872

Summary: Request for formatting Calc spreads in ics
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: 80230co
Component: CalcAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: enhancement CC: stephane.guillou
Priority: medium    
Version: Inherited From OOo   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
URL: https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/libreoffice-calc-how-to-export-spreadsheet-into-icalendar-format-ics-file/33065
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Description 80230co 2023-08-23 11:58:49 UTC
At present, I am forced to use a third party email client to take my csv text spreadsheet and convert it to a .ics document for my email client. I steadfastly refuse to subscribe to Microsoft Office to export it, and I am far too privacy/security conscious to upload it to gmail and convert it that way. I am officially asking for this functionality to be included in LibreOffice in future iterations.

Thank you
Comment 1 80230co 2023-09-09 16:22:52 UTC
I am requesting that Libreoffice have the the ability to export in .ics format for uploading to ical.
Comment 2 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-09-30 22:17:46 UTC
Just noting this was originally requested on Ask.LO: https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/request-for-exporting-calc-spreads-in-ical-format/94932

But it has been a topic previously, which I've linked in the URL field: https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/libreoffice-calc-how-to-export-spreadsheet-into-icalendar-format-ics-file/33065

I think the issue here is that it is not straight-forward to know how the user has structured the information in their spreadsheet to then export that into an ICS file...

I assume it would have to be a guided process, asking the user which column goes where (start date-time, end date-time, description of event...).
Although I appreciate the thought of supporting more open formats, I can only imagine this being done as an extension, really.

Could you please share an example file that you would like to export as ICS?
Comment 3 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-09-30 22:19:04 UTC
Ha, we've had that feature request before, let's mark as a duplicate then.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 35315 ***