Training Module Integration with Outlook Calendar

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mark.cook
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    Has anyone successfully integrated signing up for training in Lawson to a calendar request?

    We are looking for ideas on how to accomplish.
    Shane Jones
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      Surprising that Lawson has not built this yet. I did see that an ical is just a simple text file with the .ical or .ics extenstion so if you have a developer you could create an ical file rather easily... You could email them or you could have them as a download within the current code... Having something within the code would be a customization but having some type of process create and send the ical after-the-fact could be more of a configuration that would be less involved during patching. Here is a simple ical:

      BEGIN:VCALENDAR
      VERSION:2.0
      PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN
      BEGIN:VEVENT
      UID:shane@example.com
      DTSTAMP:20110714T170000Z
      ORGANIZER;CN=Shane:MAILTO:Shane@example.com
      DTSTART:20110714T170000Z
      DTEND:20110715T035959Z
      SUMMARY:Super Party
      END:VEVENT
      END:VCALENDAR

      If you save this in notepad as testing.ics you can open it right into outlook. There are more involved formats available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar

      good luck...
      Shane Jones
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