flight itinerary appear as meeting request not appointment

[ERG]

When I download a flight itinerary to my Outlook 2007 calendar, it comes in
as in .ics file and creates a green meeting requests calendar, paralel to my
regular blue calendar - I can overlay it, I don't want the extra calendar -
is there a setting or something I can change so the itinerary will download
as a normal appointment/event in my regular calendar?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Try dragging it from that calendar to the correct one. (Drop on the calendar
folder, not on a date.)


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[ERG]

Diane Thanks!
That certainly worked!
Any idea why/how it comes in as a meeting, or should I not try to figure out
these types of issues and just move on with the next thing?

Try dragging it from that calendar to the correct one. (Drop on the calendar
folder, not on a date.)


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When I download a flight itinerary to my Outlook 2007 calendar, it comes
in
as in .ics file and creates a green meeting requests calendar, paralel to
my
regular blue calendar - I can overlay it, I don't want the extra
calendar -
is there a setting or something I can change so the itinerary will
download
as a normal appointment/event in my regular calendar?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Move on... Outlook is interpreting the ics as an internet calendar file,
not as an appointment because of the way the ics is written. I'm not sure
exactly what goes wrong - whether its multiple stops/dates or something else
that causes the problems. It's nothing you are doing 'wrong'.

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Diane Thanks!
That certainly worked!
Any idea why/how it comes in as a meeting, or should I not try to figure
out
these types of issues and just move on with the next thing?

Try dragging it from that calendar to the correct one. (Drop on the
calendar
folder, not on a date.)


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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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When I download a flight itinerary to my Outlook 2007 calendar, it
comes
in
as in .ics file and creates a green meeting requests calendar, paralel
to
my
regular blue calendar - I can overlay it, I don't want the extra
calendar -
is there a setting or something I can change so the itinerary will
download
as a normal appointment/event in my regular calendar?

 

[Ken]

Hi all,

I'm trying to figure out why this worked in Outlook 2003 and it no longer
works in Outlook 2007. When I receive a meeting request with a .ics
attachment it automatcially would be added to my calendar in 2003 but in 2007
it open a brand new calendar. How can I set it up to work the old way?

Ken

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

I'm trying to figure out why this worked in Outlook 2003 and it no longer
works in Outlook 2007. When I receive a meeting request with a .ics
attachment it automatcially would be added to my calendar in 2003 but in
2007
it open a brand new calendar. How can I set it up to work the old way?

Are you saying that the meeting request is added to a new calendar or that the
ICS attachment on that request is added? Why would a meeting request need an
ICS attachment in the first place? If you click the Calendar button, what
calendar shows?

 

[Ken]

It's added to a new calendar instead of being added as an appt in the default
calendar in 03. I'm actually surprised this hasn't come up before.

Ken

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

It has, a few times. But it seems to be limited to just one, maybe two,
carriers. It happened to me once or twice but my last flight reservation
worked just fine.


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[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

It's added to a new calendar instead of being added as an appt in the
default
calendar in 03. I'm actually surprised this hasn't come up before.

You didn't answer my questions: what gets added, the meeting request or the
ICS that you say is attached to the meeting request? And why are they
attaching an ICS to a meeting request anyway?

 

[Ken]

:

You didn't answer my questions: what gets added, the meeting request or the
ICS that you say is attached to the meeting request? And why are they
attaching an ICS to a meeting request anyway?

Brian,

From the users standpoint they receive a message (meeting request) with an
attached .ics. Double clicking the .ics opens into a new calendar, side by
side with their default Outlook calendar. They can drag the appt request that
is on this new calendar over to their outlook calendar but prior versions
just automatically added the appt request to their outlook calendarn.

There may be some confusion here (partly mine). They just want things like
travel schedules etc...to automatically be added to their calendar. They were
used to how it worked in outlook 03 and 07 it doesn't work the same so that's
the reason for the post.

I have no idea why you would attach a .ics to a meeting request but I'm all
ears as to what they should be sending it that way. This is a travel agency,
you'd figure they'd know this stuff..

Ken-

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

From the users standpoint they receive a message (meeting request) with an
attached .ics. Double clicking the .ics opens into a new calendar, side by
side with their default Outlook calendar. They can drag the appt request
that
is on this new calendar over to their outlook calendar but prior versions
just automatically added the appt request to their outlook calendarn.

There may be some confusion here (partly mine). They just want things like
travel schedules etc...to automatically be added to their calendar. They
were
used to how it worked in outlook 03 and 07 it doesn't work the same so
that's
the reason for the post.

A meeting request and a mail message with an ICS attached aren't the same
thing. A meeting request would go into the personal calendar by default. An
attached ICS file should as well, but perhaps you and I are differing in our
understanding what "personal" calendar means. I mean the delivery location
Calendar. Plus I tested this on Outlook 2007 and 2003 yesterday and they both
behaved the same for me. Opening an ICS file did not open a calendar window,
but a new meeting window, which was stored in my delivery location Calendar
folder when I clicked Save and Close. Is there any other information you can
describe which might let someone reproduce the behavior?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

It's really not something your can repro at will - in my experience, it only
happens with some of the 'add to calendar' links that are generated on the
fly when you make reservations.

SP2 fixed a lot of calendar issues, so that should be installed, if its not
installed already.

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