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Create clickable URLs in iCal events Apps
Well known is the fact that you can add a URL to an iCal entry by pasting it into the URL section. However, if you drag and drop the URL to a given day, a new event is created with the URL surrounded by angle brackets (< and >). Now if you click on that event, the URL is opened immediatly.

This can be combined with this tip to link to local files, although this is a little bit trickier, because you can't drag the file directly to iCal.

[robg adds: The hint did not include the solution for creating clickable file links, so here's one method that workd. First open the directory containing the target file or folder in Firefox (or another browser that supports file browsing; Safari now seems to open local folders in the Finder). Then drag the linked file or folder from Firefox to an empty portion of day to create a clickable linked event.]
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Create clickable URLs in iCal events
Authored by: mark hunte on Jan 19, '06 10:49:09AM
This is a very Basic script, which can be put in Automator for a Contextual menu
or run from a hot key app.
tell application "Finder"
	set aItem to selection as alias
end tell

tell application "Finder" to set theFileURL to "<" & (URL of aItem) & ">"
tell application "iCal"
	
	set currentCal to calendar 1
	set theEvent to (make event at end of events of currentCal with properties {summary:theFileURL})
end tell
tell application "iCal"
	activate
	show theEvent
end tell
It will get the url of a file or folder and make a new event with it as a clickable
Url, in your first cal. Its an example and the script can be modified any
which way but loose to be less basic.

Personally if its a single file or folder, I would rather drag the file or folder to the
events Url tab and click it from there (Which you can do) as this is less
messy in the events view and Summery.

If its more than one file or folder, then I would put the url (file://) paths in the
notes.
When I want to click them , All I would do is right click and 'Open Url' .
Each entry in the notes only needs to be separated by a space. Also they do not
need the " " tags. This is again very easy to script.

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mh

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Create clickable URLs in iCal events
Authored by: mark hunte on Jan 19, '06 10:51:00AM

Thats < > tags



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mh



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