How to Link an XML document to Outlook calendar? [closed]

Question

I have an xml document with the following structure:

<Tasks>
  <Task>
    <DateTime>11/01/2012</DateTime>
    <detail>Do something</detail>
  </Task>
</Tasks>

this is a file that i have in sharepoint, is updated using a different process... is there a way to have this document linked to outlook calendar, to have the "Do Something" detail added to 11/01/2012 day in the outlook calendar ?

Answer 1

There are a lot of missing pieces to this problem. Outlook doesn't directly interface with SharePoint aside from synchronizing list items to an offline list.

I think you may be looking at this the wrong way. Your XML document isn't an application - it can "connect" to the calendar however you want to, depending on the application consuming it. It sounds to me like you want the connection to go the other way - you want the calendar to connect to your document and update based on the contents of the XML file.

An event receiver on ItemAdded/ItemUpdated can parse your XML file, check for matching events, and add/update those events to a SharePoint calendar appropriately, and then one or more users of Outlook can import that calendar.

I don't see any way this can be done without code, I'm afraid.