Exporting Lotus Notes Calendar entries
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Loading ...It is possible to export calendar entries from Lotus Notes in the iCalendar format, the standard for calendar exchange between applications.
From your Lotus Notes Calendar, select the All Calendar Entries tab. This shows calendar entries as a list in date and time order. Each of the calendar entries is a thread, and the default view shows all threads are collapsed.
Select the entries to be exported, then choose Export… from the File menu. The default export format is Structured Text. Change this to Calendar File (*.ics), choose a name for the export file, and click Export.
When choosing the entries to be exported be aware that each calendar thread is an archive of all the operations that have affected that calendar entry. Also be aware that the head of each thread shows the details of the entry when it was created. Any subsequent changes will only be reflected in the iCalendar export if the thread is expanded and the reschedule notices manually selected. This does make the export process manually intensive.
These instructions are accurate for the Lotus Notes 7.0.3 client running on Mac OS X 10.5.1 (Leopard).
January 3rd, 2008 at 4:52 pm
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January 25th, 2008 at 7:24 am
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February 16th, 2008 at 11:51 am
I tried your approach but stucked in the moment when I wanted to select the .ics format. This is obvously only available in the Mac version of Notes but not in the Windows version :-(
July 7th, 2008 at 3:42 am
Not clear from the description above, but this will only work with Lotus Notes client version 7.0 and above.