- Issue created by @kopeboy
- 🇺🇸United States mark_fullmer Tucson
Thanks for asking about this! A bit of research confirms my impression that a direct hyperlink to an ICS file is not commonly supported. Rather, the prevailing way to share ICS files via email is to attach them to the email.
For example, both https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-an-add-to-calendar-lin... and https://answers.laserfiche.com/questions/119723/How-do-I-attach-a-direct... suggest exporting the file and then either attaching it to the email or storing the file in a cloud service like Google Drive and linking to that.
That being said, I think it's certainly theoretically possible that this module _could_ provide the equivalent of a direct link to the ICS file. In order to support this, the business logic would need to be changed so that the hyperlink presented to users is not the data of the ICS itself, but rather, a relative link to a new Drupal Controller route, such as
/events/ical/[UUID of event].As a maintainer, I'm not opposed to changing the business logic along the lines outlined above, but I'd like to get more confirmation from other maintainers and the community that this seems like a valuable and standards-compliant thing to do.