4.8.6.1 Action

Basic Definition | Description| | Example

Basic Definition

Property Name: ACTION
Purpose: This property defines the action to be invoked when an alarm is triggered.
Value Type: TEXT
Property Parameters: Non-standard property parameters can be specified on this property.
Conformance: This property MUST be specified once in a "VALARM" calendar component.

Description

Each "VALARM" calendar component has a particular type of action associated with it. This property specifies the type of action

Format Definition

The property is defined by the following notation:

  action     = "ACTION" actionparam ":" actionvalue CRLF

  actionparam        = *(";" xparam)

  actionvalue        = "AUDIO" / "DISPLAY" / "EMAIL" / "PROCEDURE"
                     / iana-token / x-name

Example

The following are examples of this property in a "VALARM"
calendar component:

  ACTION:AUDIO

  ACTION:DISPLAY

  ACTION:PROCEDURE

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This is a part of RFC 2445 iCalendar specification (1998-11), converted to XHTML by M.Kanzaki.
Status: first converted 2003-10-25, modified 2003-10-28. Exp.