Property Name
SUMMARY
Purpose
This property defines a short summary or subject for the calendar component.
Value Type
TEXT
Property Parameters
IANA, non-standard, alternate text representation, and language property parameters can be specified on this property.
Conformance
The property can be specified in "VEVENT", "VTODO", "VJOURNAL", or "VALARM" calendar components.
Description
This property is used in the "VEVENT", "VTODO", and "VJOURNAL" calendar components to capture a short, one-line summary about the activity or journal entry.
This property is used in the "VALARM" calendar component to capture the subject of an EMAIL category of alarm.
Format Definition
This property is defined by the following notation:
summary = "SUMMARY" summparam ":" text CRLF
summparam = *(
;
; The following are OPTIONAL,
; but MUST NOT occur more than once.
;
(";" altrepparam) / (";" languageparam) /
;
; The following is OPTIONAL,
; and MAY occur more than once.
;
(";" other-param)
;
)
Example
The following is an example of this property
SUMMARY:Department Party