Introducing Agical.io, the smarter ICS file generator

[SanfordWhiteman]

The Agical app itself wasn’t down, which was causing some confusion. We monitor the the standard ics.agical.io every 5 secs.

But there was a bug introduced by the hosting service during an unannounced migration to some new infrastructure which unfortunately affected the alternate path /alt_sep/, nothing else, not even the /beta/alt_sep/ was affected. (Not happy about this!) It’s fixed now. They apparently ran the migration on Mon May 15 2023 08:06:00 AM UTC.

[Tom_Liolios4]

Hi Sanford, 

Thanks for the feedback and looking into this so quickly. As we're a global company with a big presence in EMEA & APAC, our marketers definitely noticed that it was down around 8 AM UTC.

Glad it's resolved!

[PascaleC]

Hi @SanfordWhiteman  Thanks for creating this tool. I would like to create a calendar ics file for a recurring teams meeting. 

Below is the URL I created but  I'm facing the following issues:

• the time is not showing up correctly on my calendar. It should be at 5 pm CET time for one hour 
• the link to the teams meeting (attachment) is not working properly, it seems to be cutting after "context".
• I was hoping to have this meeting bi-weekly. Is that an option? 

https://ics.agical.io/?subject=PUG&description= PUG TEST&location=Online meeting&attach=https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MjAzZTBjNzctNjNhZi00ZTQwLThlYjEtMzVhZWFhNmJlYTQ3%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%227894512c-f554-4de4-bff2-dec418150d4c%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%226cfc80a5-968a-4322-951d-d4c611942c57%22%7d/&dtstart=2024-08-21T10:00:00Z&dtend=2024-08-21T11:00:00Z&duration=1H&reminder=15&recur=weekly&recuruntil=2024-10-20

thanks for your help again! 

[PascaleC]

Hi @SanfordWhiteman I figured out the issue with the timing and the biweekly. But the teams link invite is still breaking when i put it in the description but also in the attachment. Is there something I am doing wrong? 

[SanfordWhiteman]

Looks like you need to URL-encode the query string of the Teams link in addition to URL-encoding the entire link.

You need to URL-encode first because the query contains reserved characters (even in its "plain" form).

Then URL-encode the whole link on top of that because it's going into the query string of the Agical URL.

https://ics.agical.io/?subject=PUG&description= PUG TEST&location=Online meeting&attach=https%3A%2F%2Fteams.microsoft.com%2Fl%2Fmeetup-join%2F19%3Ameeting_MjAzZTBjNzctNjNhZi00ZTQwLThlYjEtMzVhZWFhNmJlYTQ3%40thread.v2%2F0%3Fcontext%3D%257B%2522Tid%2522%253A%25227894512c-f554-4de4-bff2-dec418150d4c%2522%252C%2522Oid%2522%253A%25226cfc80a5-968a-4322-951d-d4c611942c57%2522%257D&dtstart=2024-08-21T10:00:00Z&dtend=2024-08-21T11:00:00Z&duration=1H&reminder=15&recur=weekly&recuruntil=2024-10-20

[PascaleC]

That worked perfectly! Thanks @SanfordWhiteman !