Many companies send .ICS files for Outlook Calendar updates (for appointments, webinars, etc.). It is important to ensure that the .ICS file is linked and supported by eM Client.
Current workaround:
Open eM CLient.
Download the .ICS file from the email to your desktop (or your place of choosing).
Click the Calendar in eM Client.
Drag and drop the .ICS file into Calendar.
Verify that the date of the event is listed in Calendar.
Functionality Expected:
Double-click the .ICS file.
A dialogue box is presented asking you, “Do you wish to add the following the the Calendar?” with the Subject, Date, and Time listed below in the dialogue box.
Give the user the option of Yes, No, Change.
Clicking Yes adds it to the Calendar. Clicking No terminates the process. Clicking change opens the Calendar New window, with the information pre-populated and the attention directed to the date.
The feature you request is already one of our large features which will be available in the next version (v3.1) which will be released in couple of weeks. There will be graphical interface to open .ics and .vcf and store it to calendar/contactlist (and UI for multiple items in one file). When .ics is will be sent as attachment of email it will open in read-only mode and allow adding to calendar.
I can’t get this to work automatically, either. I just got a notice of a Webinar I signed up for, with the option to “Add to your Outlook Calendar.” I clicked on it, and got a drop-down box with Outlook, and several other programs, but eM Client was not one of them. How do I fix this? Thanks!
Jean
Okay, I just realized that I have to change my default email client to eM Client and that gave me the option. HOWEVER, the time is wrong. The opening dialog box shows the time as 10 a.m. Pacific time. It actually takes place then, but I’m on the East Coast. I changed the time zone to GMT-5 East, but it won’t stay. It keeps returning to Pacific time. I finally just manually changed the time to 1:00 p.m. so at least my calendar will be correct. Am I doing something wrong with the time zone?
Edit: If I go into the tabs of the dialog box that pops up, the correct time is shown as Eastern time zone, but on the initial screen it stays as Pacific, and that’s what shows up in my calendar.
Unable to get accepted appointment to save into calendar by just clicking on save button. I am able to do so if I download and drag it into the Calendar. eM Client 6.0.20617.0
When i click twice on the file emclient wants to import a file into their own calendar
Yes dbl-cking a .ics calendar file “will normally prompt you to save or add to the default Mail / Calendar app” and choose a calendar folder to put it in. So “if you have eM Client Calendar set default in your Mac OS”, then it will go into that.
How do i need to import this to macos calendar? Is it possible without saving a file?
If you are wanting the .ics calendar file when opened / dbclicked to save or add into another Mail / Calendar app folder, then “you would need to change the default mail / calendar app” on your Mac OS first before opening or dblclicking.
You can alternatively save the file, and then just “drag the .ics file” into the Mail / Calendar app you want, which will then normally add the event to it.
Apart from that “the Mac OS would have to be modified by Apple” to allow after dblclicking the ics file to then choose what Calendar App to add it to.
According to the first post in this thread, this has been a problem for 13+ years!
I experience the same functionality as does chandler.
It’s possible I am doing something dumb, but my macos Calendar is configured to use Calendar as the default calendar app.
Yet when I try to open an attached .ics file em-client what looks like an em-client Event window pops up.
I can’t find anything in the official docs. What am I doing wrong, or is this feature still not fully implemented?
My favourite workaround:
With Calendar in the dock
Click and drag the .ics attachment from the e-mail and drop it on the Calendar icon in the dock. Note: for me dropping it onto an open calendar window does not work. This avoids a bit of pointing and clicking and saving a file only to have to double-click on it in the finder to get it to load into Calendar.
You can add the emailed .ics event files two ways “once you have eM Client set as default Calendar” in the OS. Using the latest eM Client V10.1.4828 and Sequoia 15.1.1 example
You first set eM Client Calendar as the default in the Mac OS via “right clicking the .ics file in the Finder” and then clicking “Get Info” on the dropdown menu. Then under the “Open With” section, choose eM Client and then click “Change All” underneath as per below example screenshot.
1). When you receive an email with a .ics file attachment if you want to add that to your eM Client default Calendar “without saving it first”, then you can either click the “Add to Calendar” button in the email “which then automatically adds the event to your default calendar in eM Client”.
2). You can also “Open / Dbl-click the .ICS file in the received email”, which will then “open the Event directly in eM Client calendar”, and you can then just click “Save & Close” or modify anything in the event before saving, which will also then add it to your default calendar within eM Client.
Note:- If you want to add the event to a specific calendar within eM Client before saving the event, you just “click the dropdown at the top left of the event” & select the calendar.
I do not want to use em client calendar but my built-in mac os calendar.
As I wrote in my previous post if you want to use another Mac App Calendar (outside of eM Client), you would first have to “set your other Mac OS Calendar app as the default in your Mac OS” via the Finder / ics file / Get Info Properties as I described in my previous post above.
Then when you get an email in eM Client with an.ics file attached, if you then open the ics file, your OS will then open your Mac OS Calendar app (instead of the eM Client calendar) and the calendar event should then appear for you to save in the Mac OS Calendar as its associated by the Mac OS to open and not eM Client calendar.
Or alternatively you could add your calendar “as an account in eM Client rather than using the Mac OS external calendar” which is what eM Client is designed to do. I use the built-in eM Client calendar for all my various Mac accounts.
In Postbox this looks like that:
open invite.ics
mac os dialog shows up
From your Postbox screenshot they may have then optionally programmed that external file handler GUI to connect via the Mac OS when you opened a .ics file, to then let you choose what Calendar to add the ics file to. But that’s not normal for a mail client to program that. That is normally third party companies who do that as eg: plugin or similar.
You could certainly put that as a suggestion in the Sleekplan page for opening .ics files within eM Client.
