Meeting Requests

[Question Boy]

Hello,

I created a meeting request and e-mailed it out to different people. A
couple people said they got garbage which I checked and is the coded version.
Instead of getting a nisely formatted e-mail with voting buttons they got

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 11.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:REQUEST
BEGIN:VEVENT
and so on

I then checked and found out they use Thunderbird to check e-mail. Is there
a way to send a meeting request that is universally accepted? Is there a
work around? or are meeting requests limited to Outlook only (which mean not
useable outside my own organization)?

Thank you,

QB

 

[Brian Tillman]

I created a meeting request and e-mailed it out to different people.
A couple people said they got garbage which I checked and is the
coded version. Instead of getting a nisely formatted e-mail with
voting buttons they got

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 11.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:REQUEST
BEGIN:VEVENT
and so on

I then checked and found out they use Thunderbird to check e-mail.
Is there a way to send a meeting request that is universally
accepted?

Use iCal format instead of vCal.

 

[Question Boy]

Brian,

How?

Under Tools the 'Send as ICalendar' is checked. Am I missing something?

I also noticed that in the Action menu there is an option 'Forward as
ICalendar'. What is the diff between the Tools and the Action versions?

Thank you,

QB

 

[Brian Tillman]

How?

I'd save it as a file and then attach it.

Under Tools the 'Send as ICalendar' is checked. Am I missing
something?

I don't know. I do this so rarely that I'm not familiar with the vagaries
of the various methods.

I also noticed that in the Action menu there is an option 'Forward as
ICalendar'. What is the diff between the Tools and the Action
versions?

I don't know.