is there a way to create an iCalendar export on appointment creation

[White Horse Development]

I am able to create the iCalendar export without problem when the user clicks the "export" button, but we have a requirement from the client to send an email (with .ics attachment) when an appointment is created.  Open to any ideas.

thanks!

[White Horse Development]

some more information:
1) I have everything setup like the sample code for iCalendar export.
2) I have hidden the "export button" in the appointments template (idea is to programatically "click" the button once the appointment has been added to the schedule)
3) WHENEVER I insert or edit an appointment this event (RadScheduler1_AppointmentCommand) is firing by itself (i.e. no clicking on the button via the user interface or javascript).
4) the appointment object that is available in the event handler e.Container.Appointment does not contain any attribute information, even though I have four custom attributes that i need to access.

any help would be appreciated. 
thanks!

[Peter]

Hello,

You should handle AppointmentInsert and AppointmentUpdate and use the following code in the event handlers

if (e.CommandName == "Export")
{
    WriteCalendar(RadScheduler.ExportToICalendar(e.ModifiedAppointment));
    //e.Appointment for AppointmentInsert
}

similarly to the code used in the iCalendar Export demo.

Custom attributes are not exported, but we have added the description field when exporting appointments. You can easily rename 'Description' to 'MyCustomAttrName' in the advanced form using the localization property: Localization-AdvancedDescription="'MyCustomAttrName'"

Adding a description field is easily accomplished as well.

I hope this offers you an acceptable alternative.

Kind regards,
Peter
the Telerik team