Adding Events to a Calendar

To create engaging applications with various calendar features, you must learn to add events to calendars:

1. Retrieve the default system calendar using the getDefaultCalendar() method of the CalendarManager interface.

   With the parameter, specify the calendar type as an event.

   calendar = webapis.calendar.getDefaultCalendar("EVENT");
   

2. Create a CalendarEvent:CalendarItem object and define the event properties:

   var ev = new webapis.CalendarEvent
   ({
      description:"HTML5 Introduction", 
      summary:"HTML5 Webinar", 
      startDate: new webapis.TZDate(2011, 3, 30, 10, 0), 
      duration: new webapis.TimeDuration(1, "HOURS"),
      location:"Huesca",
   

3. To make a recurring event, define a recurrence rule.

   In this example, the event repeats once a day for 3 days.

      recurrenceRule: new webapis.CalendarRecurrenceRule("DAILY", {occurrenceCount: 3})
   });
   

4. Add the CalendarEvent object to the default calendar with the add() method of the Calendar object.

   calendar.add(ev);  /* ev.id attribute is generated */

5. To add an alarm to the event, create an alarm with the CalendarAlarm interface, and add the alarm to the event:

   /* Alarm is triggered with sound 30 minutes before the event start time */
   var alarm = new webapis.CalendarAlarm(new webapis.TimeDuration(30, "MINS"), "SOUND");
   
   ev.alarms = [alarm];