Exporting GroupWise to iCal
Technology April 1st, 2007I have a client that uses Novell’s GroupWise (GroupWise!) and its one of those “we schedule it on your calendar and expect you to show up” shops, so I have to make reviewing GroupWise part of my workflow.
The OS X (Java-based) client is so painful, and my life already so organized around Apple’s iCal, that I found it much more convenient to aggregate GroupWise into iCal. Lacking the capability of exporting to iCalendar format, I wrote my own exporter that scrapes the “low-bandwidth” web interface and converts it, serving it up via an embedded web server.
I released it to a few people, but have never made the code broadly available. So, I’ll announce here that its available, and if anyone wants it, let me know and I’ll post it publicly.
(Just to clarify, this is not an April Fool’s joke.)


April 4th, 2007 at 7:17 am
I’d love to have a look at this Ben, I’ve got hundreds of GroupWise/Entourage/Mail-app users!
Many thanks!
April 11th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
[…] I’ve received a few emails and at least one comment on my earlier blog entry about my GroupWise to iCalendar converter, so as promised, I hereby release GroupWise Exporter 1.0. Its a Java application, but I only support it on the Mac. Sorry. If anyone has a desire to use it on non-OS X machines, let me know. Wouldn’t be that hard to get it working cross-platform. Enjoy, and let me know if you have any problems running it. […]
April 24th, 2007 at 6:55 am
I am a newbie at Java, but very frustrated with having to use Groupwise and will do anything to modify your code and allow most of us in the PeopleSoft team to import the calendar into our own iCal apps.
May 9th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
Would that timezone thing be fixable with an applescript or a folder action or something else hack-esque? Either way, looking forward to any updates.
Chris
May 28th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Hi,
I am also thrilled that you have an application that will export my GW to Ical but I live in Georgia and although I’m able to get my Ical to grasp the time change, all of my appointments get synced to my Iphone two hours later…
Any help would be greatly appreciated