https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/attaching-an-ics-event-file-with-textcalendar-mime-type-help Gravity Support Forums Topic: Attaching an ics (event) file with text/Calendar mime type - help? en-US Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:11:17 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/attaching-an-ics-event-file-with-textcalendar-mime-type-help#post-105005 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:46:02 +0000 Chris Hajer 105005@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>The only option for email notification format in Gravity Forms is HTML or text which can be controlled by the gform_notification_format.</p> <p><a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_notification_format" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_notification_format</a></p> <p>To have complete control over the email notification format, you might have to craft your own notification with the proper Content-type, using phpmailer. Here is how one person did it:</p> <p><a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/send-from-field-on-notification-setting-page-doesnt-work#post-77233" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/send-from-field-on-notification-setting-page-doesnt-work#post-77233</a></p> <p>You could turn off the default admin notification, and use the gform_after_submission hook to send your own notification.</p> <p><a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_after_submission" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_after_submission</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/attaching-an-ics-event-file-with-textcalendar-mime-type-help#post-104553 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:28:53 +0000 Ben Hutchings 104553@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>I'm tying to attach a .ics file to an admin notification email. I can do this fine in that when the email arrives it has the file attached. However it doesn't behave the same way that an invitation from GCal/Outlook/iCal would, i.e. letting you add the invitation/appointment to your calendar directly from the mail client.</p> <p>It looks like the reason is down to the 'Content-Type' in the email. When I send one from GCal/Outlook/iCal that works fine, this is what I see in the bottom of the email source: </p> <pre><code>--[mesage id here] Content-Type: text/calendar; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot;; method=REQUEST Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 [encoded string here]</code></pre> <p>When I attach a file with this code:</p> <pre><code>add_filter(&quot;gform_admin_notification_attachments_4&quot;, &quot;add_attachment&quot;, 10, 3); function add_attachment($attachments, $lead, $form){ $doc = &#39;/invite.ics&#39;; $upload = wp_upload_dir(); $upload_path = $upload[&quot;basedir&quot;]; $attachments = array(); $attachments[] = $upload_path . $doc; return $attachments; }</code></pre> <p>I get this in the email:</p> <pre><code>--[mesage id here] Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=&quot;invite.ics&quot; Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=&quot;invite.ics&quot; [encoded string here]</code></pre> <p>Any ideas how I can enforce the correct content type so the mail clients know how to handle it?</p> <p>Thanks,<br /> Ben </p>