4.8.4.2 Contact
Basic Definition | Description| | Example
Basic Definition
- Property Name
- CONTACT
- Purpose
- The property is used to represent contact information or alternately a reference to contact information associated with 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 a "VEVENT", "VTODO", "VJOURNAL" or "VFREEBUSY" calendar component.
Description
The property value consists of textual contact information. An alternative representation for the property value can also be specified that refers to a URI pointing to an alternate form, such as a vCard [RFC 2426], for the contact information.
Format Definition
The property is defined by the following notation:
contact = "CONTACT" contparam ":" text CRLF
contparam = *(
; 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 referencing
textual contact information:
CONTACT:Jim Dolittle\, ABC Industries\, +1-919-555-1234
The following is an example of this property with an alternate
representation of a LDAP URI to a directory entry containing the
contact information:
CONTACT;ALTREP="ldap://host.com:6666/o=3DABC%20Industries\,
c=3DUS??(cn=3DBJim%20Dolittle)":Jim Dolittle\, ABC Industries\,
+1-919-555-1234
The following is an example of this property with an alternate
representation of a MIME body part containing the contact
information, such as a vCard [RFC 2426] embedded in a [MIME-DIR]
content-type:
CONTACT;ALTREP="CID=<part3.msg970930T083000SILVER@host.com>":Jim
Dolittle\, ABC Industries\, +1-919-555-1234
The following is an example of this property referencing a network
resource, such as a vCard [RFC 2426] object containing the contact
information:
CONTACT;ALTREP="http://host.com/pdi/jdoe.vcf":Jim
Dolittle\, ABC Industries\, +1-919-555-1234