Thanks in advance. Every two weeks I receive airline ticket confirmations via email. Inside each message are two .ics files--one for the departing flight and one for the return. Given how often I fly for my job, it would be very helpful if these .ics files were automatically added to my Outlook calendar.



Is it possible to devise a rule that, without my involvement, processes (or, depending on the verbiage you prefer, "imports," "saves," etc.) these .ics files so they appear in my calendar? Alternatively, is there an add-on that will accomplish this?

Any advice would be hugely appreciated; I can't find anything in this forum or elsewhere speaking specifically to this matter. If this is impossible, I'm thinking I may ask my travel agency to send them in a differnt format.

Cheers.

Upon further investigation it seems clear that I would need to add a macro and then run a "custom script" rule. Having no idea how to draft a custom Outlook script myself, I've been searching for a pre-made solution to adapt online. The closest I've been able to find is a blog post entitled "VBA - Processing ICS File Attachments" (accessible at: http://anvil-of-time.com/wordpress/p...e-attachments/) but what I do with this is still a mystery to me, despite playing around in the Visual Basic Editor for several hours. Any assistance someone could provide in implementing this concept would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

Hi,

I found this article which might help you, depending on the source of the ICS file: http://windowsitpro.com/outlook/q-do...port-icalendar. IT doesn't cover programming, but rather subscribing to the calendar so that you get updates automatically. It might be easier than trying to save and import each ics file you get.

Mike, thanks for the response. The travel site doesn't have a means of subscribing to the calendar, so I gave up and enrolled in an on-line planner that monitors my inbox for travel content and DOES generate a private URL as referenced by the article. It's working fine; I wish I had chosen this option to begin with, but I was hesitant about using yet another service.

I finally decided to stop searching when I read the coding was impossible given Microsoft's current security settings on Slipstick. Ah, well!

Thanks again.