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3.8.6.1. Action

Property Name

ACTION

Purpose

This property defines the action to be invoked when an alarm is triggered.

Value Type

TEXT

Property Parameters

IANA and non-standard property parameters can be specified on this property.

Conformance

This property MUST be specified once in a "VALARM" calendar component.

Description

Each "VALARM" calendar component has a particular type of action with which it is associated. This property specifies the type of action. Applications MUST ignore alarms with x-name and iana-token values they don't recognize.

Format Definition

This property is defined by the following notation:

 action      = "ACTION" actionparam ":" actionvalue CRLF

 actionparam = *(";" other-param)

actionvalue = "AUDIO" / "DISPLAY" / "EMAIL" / iana-token / x-name

Example

The following are examples of this property in a "VALARM" calendar component:

 ACTION:AUDIO

 ACTION:DISPLAY

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