4.8.1.2 Categories
Basic Definition | Description| | Example
Basic Definition
- Property Name
- CATEGORIES
- Purpose
- This property defines the categories for a calendar component.
- Value Type
- TEXT
- Property Parameters
- 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 list of categories separated by the COMMA character (US-ASCII decimal 44).
Format Definition
The 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
(";" xparam)
)
Example
The following are examples of this property: CATEGORIES:APPOINTMENT,EDUCATION CATEGORIES:MEETING