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Syncing Lotus Notes with Google Calendar

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:34:00 GMT

I'm going to describe how to quickly and reliably synchronize your Lotus Notes and Google calendars without purchasing expensive, buggy software.

Until now I have not been able to get my Lotus Notes work calendar and my personal Google Calendar synced. Lotus Notes is a proprietary format, and will not by default import any standard calendar filetypes, so it's a no-go on all fronts.

So today I tripped across a page on IBM's website titled "Notes iCalendar Support ". Now, having worked with Notes for a few years, I know by now not to get my hopes up. But I downloaded and installed the app (it integrates into notes), and now have both calendars synced to each other. It's a manual process, but I'll take what I can get. Here are the steps I took:

Download Notes iCalendar Support from IBM's Lotus Sandbox site
Unzip and run the installer
Restart Notes

To add your Notes calendar entries to your Google Calendar :

Open Lotus Notes
- Hold down shift and click each calendar event you want to copy over
- Click Actions -> iCalendar -> Export
Open your Google Calendar
- Click "Manage Calendars" from the bottom of the left-hand navigation .
- Click the "Import Calendar" tab.
- Browse to your newly created iCal file (by default it is in your Notes install folder, under ' \data\iCalendar'.
- Choose the calendar to import your Notes events into. I created a new calendar to import into, in order to take advantage of GCal's multi-calendar overlay feature.
- Click the 'Import' button.
- Gcal will import your events and display a confirmation summary, and you're done!

To add your Google Calendar entries to Lotus Notes:

Open your Google Calendar
- Click "Manage Calendars" from the bottom of the left-hand navigation
- Click on the title of the calendar you want to export.
- Click the green ICAL button located in the "Private Address" region.
- Copy the link provided to your clipboard - rightclick on the link, then choose "Copy Shortcut" or "Copy Link Location".
Open Lotus Notes
- Click Actions -> iCalendar -> Import from the file menu
- Paste the url from your clipboard into the "File name:" box of the resulting dialogue box

And that's it, you're done!

ColdFusion Developer Urgently Needed in Houston

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:47:00 GMT

ColdFusion developer needed ASAP in the Galleria area of Houston. This is a permanent, full-time position that will pay in the ~$60k range.

Required skills include ColdFusion and SQL Server, but they are growing quickly and value a diverse skill set for future need. Immediate availability is a big plus!

There is no significant travel.

They provide services in the income tax industry so there is a busy season before April 15th that will include significant overtime that will be balanced during the off season. There are bonuses available and good benefits.

Shoot me an email with your resume' attached if you're interested. My email address is my first name @ my full name (no underscored) dot com.

-Seth
(Mr. Bienek if you're nasty)

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