How to add event to iCal / Outlook / gmail from webpage?

Question

include a link to download an .ics / .iCal file? attach .ics file through email?

How to construct the file? Where to find the spec?

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Answer 1

There seems to be plenty of hits for the first part of your question on Google. Also try CFLIB.org search and you can see how the function creates the text string http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=iCal+and+ColdFusion

To download, write out the string to the browser using CFCONTENT. To attach to an email, write out the string to a temporary file and you can use CFMAILPARAM to attach it. Those are a couple of ways.