[MacTUG] icalc / exchange / importing of events

[William Lewis]

I think this happens because the .ics file refers to you as the organizer of the meeting, using your information from Bookit -- something like Glenn Anderson <anderson at uwaterloo.ca>. Exchange sees this as an external address, so not you and so it's not for your calendar. I think .vcs files work better because there is no attendee information, but of course then you lose the information about who else was invited to the meeting.

This is one of the reasons we are hiring a 3rd party to move Bookit data to exchange. A major task is matching users in Bookit to users in Exchange so that all of the attendee information for meetings can be updated.

I think cut and paste works because your client software is changing the organizer of the meeting.

Will

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn Anderson [mailto:glenn.anderson at uwaterloo.ca]
> Sent: October-28-10 10:17 AM
> To: Glenn Anderson
> Cc: MacTUG; William Lewis
> Subject: Re: [MacTUG] icalc / exchange / importing of events
> 
> A little bit more on this issue...
> 
> If I cut one of these events and then paste it in, it does appear
> properly in my exchange calendar.
> 
> On 2010-10-28, at 9:17 AM, Glenn Anderson wrote:
> 
> > I have icalc setup to support connect.uwaterloo.ca ( exchange 2010 )
> and if I create events in icalc they do appear in my exchange calendar
> ( viewed via the web ).
> >
> > However, when I imported a list of events ( exported from bookit ),
> the events get added to the connect calendar in icalc, but don't get
> upload/transferred to the exchange calendar and thus don't appear on
> the web.
> >
> > Has anyone else tried importing events into their icalc calendar in
> such a fashion? If so did it work?
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