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