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iCalendar Start and End Dates

Workflow Version 10 How To

Updated April 17, 2019

asked on April 11, 2019

Hi everyone. I am new to Laserfiche and this is my first posting.

I have created a simple workflow that interrogates a form to create an iCal file as an email attachment. The iCal file attachment works well if I just specify a date - "Start Date" and "Last Date" - using business process variables from my Form and this create a whole day event in the recipient's calendar.

However, I want to create a time-limited event so I want to include the Date and Time from my form and I cannot see how to combine them within the "Edit iCalendar File" fields, Start date and End Date.

I tried variations of %(RetrieveBusinessProcessVariables_LastDate) %(RetrieveBusinessProcessVariables_ReturnTime) with no luck.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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replied on April 17, 2019

Thanks for your guidance Jonathan and Miruna. The solution lay with the fact that the form/workflow handshake passed the date over in 12H time format, even though the form collected the data in 24H time format. So by reformatting the data with a token the time could then be locked in to the 24H format that the iCalendar was expecting.

Working well now.

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replied on April 14, 2019

Is there any documentation anywhere on the populating of these timestamp fields in Edit iCalendar File? I cannot find anything online; although I am a newbie and I may be missing the obvious.

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replied on April 11, 2019

Hi Adrian,

Is your time in 24hr format? I think that is the requirement with the time tokens.

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replied on April 12, 2019

The time is in 24H format on the form, Jonathan.

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replied on April 12, 2019

Does the activity error out?

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replied on April 12, 2019

Not that I can see - I just don't receive the attached iCal file. If I just include the date, the iCal file comes through fine.

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replied on April 15, 2019

Did you check the instance details?

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