Property Name
CATEGORIES
Purpose
This property defines the categories for a calendar component.
Value Type
TEXT
Property Parameters
IANA, non-standard, and language property parameters can be specified on this property.
Conformance
The property can be specified within "VEVENT", "VTODO", or "VJOURNAL" calendar components.
Description
This property is used to specify categories or subtypes of the calendar component. The categories are useful in searching for a calendar component of a particular type and category. Within the "VEVENT", "VTODO", or "VJOURNAL" calendar components, more than one category can be specified as a COMMA-separated list of categories.
Format Definition
This property is defined by the following notation:
categories = "CATEGORIES" catparam ":" text *("," text) CRLF
catparam = *(
;
; The following is OPTIONAL,
; but MUST NOT occur more than once.
;
(";" languageparam ) /
;
; The following is OPTIONAL,
; and MAY occur more than once.
;
(";" other-param)
;
)
Example
The following are examples of this property
CATEGORIES:APPOINTMENT,EDUCATION
CATEGORIES:MEETING