4.8.1.1 Attachment

Basic Definition | Description| | Example

Basic Definition

Property Name: ATTACH
Purpose: The property provides the capability to associate a document object with a calendar component.
Value Type: The default value type for this property is URI. The value type can also be set to BINARY to indicate inline binary encoded content information.
Property Parameters: Non-standard, inline encoding, format type and value data type property parameters can be specified on this property.
Conformance: The property can be specified in a "VEVENT", "VTODO", "VJOURNAL" or "VALARM" calendar components.

Description

The property can be specified within "VEVENT", "VTODO", "VJOURNAL", or "VALARM" calendar components. This property can be specified multiple times within an iCalendar object.

Format Definition

The property is defined by the following notation:

  attach     = "ATTACH" attparam ":" uri  CRLF

  attach     =/ "ATTACH" attparam ";" "ENCODING" "=" "BASE64"
                ";" "VALUE" "=" "BINARY" ":" binary

  attparam   = *(

             ; the following is optional,
             ; but MUST NOT occur more than once

             (";" fmttypeparam) /

             ; the following is optional,
             ; and MAY occur more than once

             (";" xparam)

             )

Example

The following are examples of this property:

  ATTACH:CID:jsmith.part3.960817T083000.xyzMail@host1.com

  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=application/postscript:ftp://xyzCorp.com/pub/
   reports/r-960812.ps

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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.