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Property Name

LOCATION

Purpose

This property defines the intended venue for the activity defined by a calendar component.

Value Type

TEXT

Property Parameters

IANA, non-standard, alternate text representation, and language property parameters can be specified on this property.

Conformance

This property can be specified in "VEVENT" or "VTODO" calendar component.

Description

Specific venues such as conference or meeting rooms may be explicitly specified using this property. An alternate representation may be specified that is a URI that points to directory information with more structured specification of the location. For example, the alternate representation may specify either an LDAP URL [RFC4516] pointing to an LDAP server entry or a CID URL [RFC2392] pointing to a MIME body part containing a Virtual-Information Card (vCard) [RFC2426] for the location.

Format Definition: This property is defined by the following notation:

 location   = "LOCATION"  locparam ":" text CRLF

 locparam   = *(
            ;
            ; 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 are some examples of this property

 LOCATION:Conference Room - F123\, Bldg. 002

 LOCATION;ALTREP="http://xyzcorp.com/conf-rooms/f123.vcf":
  Conference Room - F123\, Bldg. 002

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