Comments on: Lotus Notes -> iCal -> iPhone synch problems

By: AliasNode

AliasNode — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:15:56 +0000

Note:

With Notes 8.02 and later, you can just use the iNotes webmail interface, which will format fairly well on the iPhone browser. No syncing with the iPhone calendar, but at least you can see your calendar.

You can get alerts by setting the “email to” property in the alerts dialog in a notes calendar entry. Set the email to be @txt.att.net Unfortunately, you have to do that manually.

Now if there were a way to script that…

By: Leon

Leon — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:01:08 +0000

Using Lotus 8 and your method works well without the perl script.

Is there any way of doing this automatically? Anybody out there that can do some magic with AppleScript or Automator?

By: brightsp@rky

brightsp@rky — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:21:03 +0000

I did about 6 imports of the ics files. Now I have duplicates entries. Apart from manual delete on the iphone Calendar. Anyone got other suggestions.

If a meeting was reschedule in Lotus Notes, the old entry is not removed, although the new scheduled time is OK.

Is there any way to do a clean import each time?

By: AliasNode

AliasNode — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:34:28 +0000

Has anyone tried this with Notes 8 yet?

What happens if you do it twice? Will iCal import duplicates, or will it only import new/changed entries?

When I export from Notes 7, I get multiple VCALENDAR entries in the ics file. Anyone have any idea why, and how I can change that?

By: appreciative

appreciative — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:39:35 +0000

Thanks heaps for posting this up.

By: provibe

provibe — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:43:07 +0000

I’m also using Lotus Notes 7.0.2. But when I export a week or a month of calendar entries, I might get one or two to successfully import into iCal. Usually I get nothing imported. I have mostly repeats as my calendar entries and mostly put in by other people.

By: Mischa

Mischa — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:37:26 +0000

Is there also a way to sync between my lotus notes 7 calendar and Apple Ical or only a 1 time export option?

By: Yann

Yann — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:43:04 +0000

I think i found what’s going wrong; when i export all events… there are too many entries… (since 2005…:-)
So, when i select only one month and export it’s ok ! I must test more deeply to see when Lotus seems to stop to export events…
Bye.

By: Kiran

Kiran — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:34:36 +0000

I have similar problems. I use 6.5.3 and it doesn’t have .ics exporting. From reading online, I think that was added in 7.0. :-(

By: Yann

Yann — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:17:30 +0000

I’m using 7.0.2 December 03, 2006, when exporting to .ics, some entries in my Lotus Notes Calendar are not exported !?
So, import in iCal is ok, but some are missing in the .ics file, i don’t know why ?