OT: exporting calendar from Outlook to some standard format?

[Jeremy C. Reed]

I have a customer where I need to create some web-based calendars. These 
should mostly be static, but a couple different formats would be nice 
(tables and bullet lists for example).

They have calendars stored in Outlook in their email. I don't know 
Outlook. We attempted to export, but didn't have any option for exporting 
in various calendar formats (for open standards). It did have export to 
comma-delimited file, but that failed due to some missing Microsoft 
component.

Any ideas on what tools or how to get Outlook to export the calendar in a 
format that I can quickly reuse?

I can write a simple script in awk or perl to parse the data and to 
generate the HTML, but if you have any suggestions for Unix/open source 
tools for generating nice calendars please let me know.

And another off-topic question :) is there any way for the Outlook 
calendar entries to be flagged for a certain customer or topic and then 
just export those?

Maybe Outlook is too weak and I should suggest some web-based interface to 
keep track of their calendars. Any calendaring tools that you can suggest?

I think they may want to use same calendar for several in office and so 
being able to collaborate while also having provate entries on it would be 
good.

What open standard calendar formats do you use?

  Jeremy C. Reed

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