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I have an org-file with entries of the form

* Abel's birthday party
  <2023-11-13>

and with entries of the form

* Abel Jacobi
%%(org-anniversary 1978 11 11) Abel %d

When I export to ics (e.g. org-export-dispatch > [c] Export to icalendar > [f] Current file), only the former type of entries is included in the resulting ics-file. How can I also include the latter entries?

(Both types of events show up in my agenda view in emacs.)

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  • One of the two should be "the former": they cannot both be the "the latter". Please fix. – NickD Jul 16 '23 at 00:32
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    Does it work if you use `diary-anniversary` instead? (Important -- use the correct argument order for your value of `calendar-date-style`). I can see `icalendar--convert-to-ical` attempting to handle that, but maybe the export code just doesn't know about `org-anniversary` (which would seem weird, granted; but worth testing). If it's that, please report it as a bug. – phils Jul 17 '23 at 12:35
  • Yes! If I use `diary-anniversary` then the event gets exported correcty to icalendar. But it no longer shows up in my agenda view in emacs, and `%d` gets exported verbatim rather than converted to the appopriate integer. Where exactly should I file a bug report? – Communicative Algebra Jul 19 '23 at 08:50
  • This looks org-mode specific (I suspect it should be supported by `ox-icalendar.el`), so refer to https://orgmode.org/manual/Feedback.html and https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html#org0ba954b (and it would be worth checking whether there are other org-specific diary-style forms lacking support which can be addressed at the same time). – phils Jul 19 '23 at 22:32
  • n.b. `C-h v org-agenda-include-diary` *might* solve the "no longer shows up in my agenda view" part. I think by default that's only going to pull things from `diary-file`, but see also the notes on `#include` syntax in `C-h f diary-include-files` and `C-h i g (emacs)Importing Diary` and `C-h i g (emacs)Fancy Diary Display`. (Hopefully including the org file wouldn't make that a recursive loop.) – phils Jul 19 '23 at 22:50

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It appears that the behaviour I reported was a bug/missing feature in Org version 9.5.5. This is fixed in Org 9.6.

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