Tasks & Events from Calendar.app and OmniFocus into Tinderbox

Tinderbox Tasks
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Same here (TB 8.5) and also (as I previously noted) not working with Exchange calendar items.

I’m assuming that this is Mac OS rather than TB

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Now we have 2 separate machines – from two different users – having the same problem. Maybe @eastgate could look into this anyway. thanks

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Please send formal support requests to info@eastgate.com, as this is a user-to-user forum (even if the developer sometimes contributes here as a user).

Or for clarity, asking for a fix here is not a formal tech support request.

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I will. Thanks for the reminder.

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OK. @eastgate: Could you kindly just share a video sequence of 5 seconds how it well it works for you to drag and drop Events from Fantastical to Tinderbox and by doing this: bring over

  • EventTitle,
  • $StartDate
  • $EndDate
  • Event-Note-Content
  • Backlink to Fantastical.

Thanks in advance.

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At the moment, what I get is a note with the title and text:

Mar 11, 2020 at 12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
Facebook Jan

That’s something, though we don’t get all the metadata one might wish for.

Does Fantastical document a pasteboard format?

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A drag out of Fantastical 3 (like most calendar apps) is an .ics document. Documented in RFC 5545. AFAIK, Tinderbox does not parse this format at this time. A copy from Fantastical 3 posts the event’s “notes” to the pasteboard, I believe.

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and another of the NSPasteboard types which it creates is a plist structure named: com.flexibits.fantastical2.calendaritem.copy

Sample of keys 
{
    "$version": 100000,
    "$objects": [
      "$null",
      {
        "usingDefaultUTCTimeZone": {},
        "hasRecurrenceDates": {},
        "travelTime": {},
        "exchangeMyResponseType": {},
        "calendarIdentifier": {},
        "recurrenceInstanceDate": {},
        "isAllDay": {},
        "exchangeSendToAttendees": {},
        "effectiveRights": {},
        "inboxItem": {},
        "hasAlarms": {},
        "isDetached": false,
        "etag": {},
        "syncStatus": {},
        "hasCalendarData": {},
        "allowedResponseActions": {},
        "MTLModelVersion": {},
        "recurrenceContainer": {},
        "$class": {},
        "status": {},
        "intendedAvailability": {},
        "identifier": {},
        "exchangeResponseRequested": {},
        "availability": {},
        "recurrenceExceptionDates": {},
        "creationDate": {},
        "href": {},
        "visibility": {},
        "travelAdvisoryBehavior": {},
        "recurrenceOccurrenceDates": {},
        "recurrenceEndDate": {},
        "title": {},
        "lastModifiedDate": {},
        "proposedAllDay": {},
        "startDate": {},
        "notes": {},
        "endDate": {}
      },
      0,
      0,
      "9602B577-AF0E-4B48-A8ED-C906B137C7ED",
      "Peter chat 2pm",
      "/38524429/calendars/M2CD-1-1-3D40CAED-BEDB-495F-AE4C-2A2EEEE439C1/9602B577-AF0E-4B48-A8ED-C906B137C7ED.ics",
      1,
      "\"C=10146@U=30f33c3a-895f-4b7a-996a-eb99afa5af2a\"",
      "ca28e12ad229a7cae233216bf434120949da4d39",
      1,
      0,
      {
        "NS.time": 604164313,
        "$class": {}
      },
      {
        "$classname": "NSDate",
        "$classes": [
          "NSDate",
          "NSObject"
        ]
      },
      {
        "NS.time": 604164305,
        "$class": {}
      },
      {
        "NS.time": 606009600,
        "$class": {}
      },
      {
        "NS.time": 606096000,
        "$class": {}
      },
      {
        "$classname": "FBEvent",
        "$classes": [
          "FBEvent",
          "FBCalendarItem",
          "FBMTLModel",
          "MTLModel",
          "NSObject"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "$archiver": "NSKeyedArchiver",
    "$top": {
      "root": {}
    }
  }
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Very helpful. We have an .ICS/ical parser in place already, but we’ll need to figure out the drag flavor to use. (I think there’s some misery involving file promises and such, but we’ll manage)

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Here is a sample event dragged out of Fantastical 3 as .ics

Test Event.ics.zip (1.1 KB)

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Since a lot of people seem to use Fantastical lately, I guess it really is of interest to get the drag flavour in place. Thanks for that prospect.

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It’s not just Fantastical. Apple Calendar, BusyCal, and others support .ics files, when dragging out of the app.