Export your Google Calendar to an .ics file

1. From your Google Calendar click on “Manage calendars”
2. Click on the calendar you want to export
3. At the bottom, in the private address section, click on “ICAL”
4. Click on the link provided and save the file to your hard drive

Import an .ics file into Lotus Notes 8

1. Open your Notes Calendar and click on “More | Manage Imported Calendars”
2. Click on “Import Calendar”, change the file type to .ics, and find the file you saved to your hard drive
3. A pop up will appear that will let you rename and preview the calendar. You can also mark all the entries as Private, Available, or enable notification.

Not knowing when the Notes 8 version of DUCs will be released, I had to find a way to use the existing version 1.2.3 client.

Method #1 – Don’t uninstall DUCs and reinstall Notes 8 into the same directory as your previous Notes installation. You will have to add EXTMGR_ADDINS=ucclient to the Notes.ini.

Method #2 : For Clean Notes 8 Installs – You can edit the registry.


HKLM\Software\Lotus\Notes\7.0 (new key)

Then add two String value entries: Path and DataPath

• Path - your Notes 8 program folder
• DataPath - your Notes 8 data folder

I’ve been looking for a way to sync my Google calendar (that I share with my wife) and my Notes calendar (that I use for work) and have on my Blackberry. The manage imported calendars feature in Notes 8 worked well for a while but required me to manually request an ICS file from Google, download it, and import it into Notes anytime there were updates.

Yesterday I came across a tool from Google called Sync for Mobile.

http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/index.html

This application will sync my Google calendar entries with my Blackberry calendar. Since my Blackberry calendar is connected to my Notes calendar, the entries also appear there. The best part is that I don’t have to remember manually import updates, it just does it for me. I’m not sure if there are any drawbacks since I’ve only been using it for a couple days. But so far so good.