4.8.1.4 Comment

Basic Definition | Description| | Example

Basic Definition

Property Name
COMMENT
Purpose
This property specifies non-processing information intended to provide a comment to the calendar user.
Value Type
TEXT
Property Parameters
Non-standard, alternate text representation and language property parameters can be specified on this property.
Conformance
This property can be specified in "VEVENT", "VTODO", "VJOURNAL", "VTIMEZONE" or "VFREEBUSY" calendar components.

Description

The property can be specified multiple times.

Format Definition

The property is defined by the following notation:

  comment    = "COMMENT" commparam ":" text CRLF

  commparam  = *(

             ; 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:

  COMMENT:The meeting really needs to include both ourselves
    and the customer. We can't hold this  meeting without them.
    As a matter of fact\, the venue for the meeting ought to be at
    their site. - - John

The data type for this property is TEXT.