Property Name
CONTACT
Purpose
This property is used to represent contact information or alternately a reference to contact information associated with 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
This property can be specified in a "VEVENT", "VTODO", "VJOURNAL", or "VFREEBUSY" calendar component.
Description
The property value consists of textual contact information. An alternative representation for the property value can also be specified that refers to a URI pointing to an alternate form, such as a vCard [RFC2426], for the contact information.
Format Definition
This property is defined by the following notation:
contact = "CONTACT" contparam ":" text CRLF
contparam = *(
;
; 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 referencing textual contact information:
CONTACT:Jim Dolittle\, ABC Industries\, +1-919-555-1234
The following is an example of this property with an alternate representation of an LDAP URI to a directory entry containing the contact information:
CONTACT;ALTREP="ldap://example.com:6666/o=ABC%20Industries\, c=US???(cn=Jim%20Dolittle)":Jim Dolittle\, ABC Industries\, +1-919-555-1234
The following is an example of this property with an alternate representation of a MIME body part containing the contact information, such as a vCard [RFC2426] embedded in a text/ directory media type [RFC2425]:
CONTACT;ALTREP="CID:part3.msg970930T083000SILVER@example.com": Jim Dolittle\, ABC Industries\, +1-919-555-1234 The following is an example of this property referencing a network resource, such as a vCard [RFC2426] object containing the contact information:
CONTACT;ALTREP="http://example.com/pdi/jdoe.vcf":Jim Dolittle\, ABC Industries\, +1-919-555-1234