4.8.1.12 Summary

Basic Definition | Description| | Example

Basic Definition

Property Name
SUMMARY
Purpose
This property defines a short summary or subject for the calendar component.
Value Type
TEXT
Property Parameters
Non-standard, alternate text representation and language property parameters can be specified on this property.
Conformance
The property can be specified in "VEVENT", "VTODO", "VJOURNAL" or "VALARM" calendar components.

Description

This property is used in the "VEVENT", "VTODO" and "VJOURNAL" calendar components to capture a short, one line summary about the activity or journal entry.

This property is used in the "VALARM" calendar component to capture the subject of an EMAIL category of alarm.

Format Definition

The property is defined by the following notation:

  summary    = "SUMMARY" summparam ":" text CRLF

  summparam  = *(

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

             (";" altrepparam) / (";" languageparam) /

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

             (";" xparam)

             )

Example

The following is an example of this property:

  SUMMARY:Department Party

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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.