Import calendar entry via email?

[Ken Maier]

Is there a way to import a calendar entry via an email?

My team shares out of office invites on an outlook distribution list and ideally I would like to get any calendar notices on this distribution list to automatically import into a team calendar.  I am not sure if I can have this go into JIRA first or not.... wondering if anyone has accomplished something like this already.

[Marlon Palha]

Hi Ken,

Ideally, each team calendar would have an email address that you could send an email to in order to create a calendar appointment and that email address could be added to the distribution list. Unfortunately, there is a 3+ year request for this feature and no progress so far - https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-49160.

That said, one other way to do this might be to:

• Create a generic user that has an Exchange mailbox solely to sync up with Team Calendars
• Add that user to the distribution list
• Login as that user and share out the calendar to create an ics feed
• In Confluence, add a new Team Calendar (using ubscribe by url) and use the ics url you copied from above

I could provide more details on the specifics of these steps if this seems like a desirable route for you. Others might have other suggestions too.

Thanks,

Marlon