Question

I have a .ics file which I am trying to validate from the site http://severinghaus.org/projects/icv/

Actually it’s giving the following error:

Sorry, your calendar could not be parsed.
Error: Error was: Error at line 13: Illegal component [ALARM]
Cause: Caused by: Illegal component [ALARM]

10: UID:1351
11: LOCATION: asdfghasdfgasdg, 27514
12: CLASS:PUBLIC
13: BEGIN:ALARM
14: TRIGGER:
15: ACTION:
16: DESCRIPTION:

Can somebody help me with this one.

Thanks

Answer 1

Maybe try changing ALARM to VALARM?

For instance, this validates:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//ABC Corporation//NONSGML My Product//EN
BEGIN:VTODO
DTSTAMP:19980130T134500Z
SEQUENCE:2
UID:[e-mail]
ORGANIZER:MAILTO:[e-mail]
ATTENDEE;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED:MAILTO:[e-mail]
DUE:19980415T235959
STATUS:NEEDS-ACTION
SUMMARY:Submit Income Taxes
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:AUDIO
TRIGGER:19980403T120000
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=audio/basic:http://example.com/pub/audio-
 files/ssbanner.aud
REPEAT:4
DURATION:PT1H
END:VALARM
END:VTODO
END:VCALENDAR

This does not:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//ABC Corporation//NONSGML My Product//EN
BEGIN:VTODO
DTSTAMP:19980130T134500Z
SEQUENCE:2
UID:[e-mail]
ORGANIZER:MAILTO:[e-mail]
ATTENDEE;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED:MAILTO:[e-mail]
DUE:19980415T235959
STATUS:NEEDS-ACTION
SUMMARY:Submit Income Taxes
BEGIN:ALARM
ACTION:AUDIO
TRIGGER:19980403T120000
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=audio/basic:http://example.com/pub/audio-
 files/ssbanner.aud
REPEAT:4
DURATION:PT1H
END:ALARM
END:VTODO
END:VCALENDAR