ncal2gcal

This lib/tool syncs your IBM Lotus Notes calendar with your (private) Google calendar. The synchronisation is only one-way: Lotus Notes events are pushed to your Google Calendar. All types of events (including recurring events like anniversaries) are supported.

Installation Instructions

gem install ncal2gcal

Usage

Usage: ncal2gcal <command> <opts>

Commands: sync

Specific options:

-u, --notes-username USERNAME    Lotus Notes user name
-p, --notes-password PASSWORD    Lotus Notes password
-d, --notes-database DATABASE    Lotus Notes database (.nsf file)
-U, --gmail-username USERNAME    Google user name
-P, --gmail-password PASSWORD    Google user password
-C, --gmail-calendar CALENDAR    Google calendar (default: 'LotusNotes')
-D, --days DAYS                  Do not sync events older then DAYS days
    --sync-desc                  Sync event description (default: no)
    --sync-alarm                 Sync event alarm notification (default: no)
    --sync-names                 Sync attendees (default: no)"

Example:

ncal2gcal sync -u user123 -p secret123  -d mail123.nsf -U [email protected] -P 123secret -C LotusNotes -D 14

Common options:

-?, --help                       Show this message

Prerequisites

1. Ruby 1.8.6 or later
2. Lotus Notes 
   * your .nsf file must be a local copy (replica) of your mail database stored in the data-folder 
      of your lotus notes installation. 
3. Google Account 
   * use your gmail-account or create a new one  
   * create an additional calendar for your LotusNotes Calender entries. Name it as you like 
      (i.e. LotusNotes) but do not use whitespaces or any other special characters.

Supported Platforms

This library is supported on Windows 2000 or later.

Used libs:

  • gcal4ruby

  • win32ole

  • datamapper

  • do_sqlite3

  • log4r

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Licence/Copyright

Copyright © 2009, 2010 Elias Kugler

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