Hi Tyler, --On February 2, 2007 9:40:18 AM -0600 Tyler Keating <tylerkeating@mac.com> wrote:
I have a simple question. Can the Calendar Server act on Alarm triggers? Such as sending email or an HTTP POST?
No - the server does not do that. I believe some calendar systems do have a server-based automatic alarm system. At some point it would be good to have something like this so that users don't need to have their calendar clients on all the time to receive alarms. One problem right now is that the alarm definition in iCalendar may not be flexible enough to cover the types of alarm one might need. It does have an email option, but the other types "display" and "audio" only make sense for a client. A better choice might be to have a generic "uri" type that could be used to point to different services (e.g. not only email, but im, telephone, pager etc). Better still would be to have an actual "alarm server" that is smart in determining exactly how to alert a user at a particular time (e.g. you could configure preferences to have alerts delivered in different ways depending on the time of day, day of the week, whether your IM status indicates you as "present" on a particular machine etc). All pie-in-the-sky stuff right now, but it would be good to know if people are interested in server-based alarm actions. -- Cyrus Daboo