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Edbrown · Guest

Hi All,

I notice Outlook has a feature to AutoAccept meetings for resources ... not
sure why it only works if the Resource Calendar is open in outlook....but
thats what I'm seeing. So what I'm looking for is a way to force an accept of
a meeting thru Webdav.... has anyone done this ? Would like to know how and
is some sample code was available that would be great.

Ed

Edbrown · Guest

Hi Glen,

Thanks for the response.....Again.......you have helped us so much in the
past. We are however, stuck with WebDav since we have no access to the
actual Exchange server. Since I have created and submitted the appointments
in Webdav already using the published Microsoft example, it shouldn't be too
much harder to accept the appointment then publish to the resource calendar.
The question what actual properties need to be set on this appointment in
order for it to be an accepted appointment before publishing to the resources
calendar. Any ideas ?

Thanks again,

Ed

"Glen Scales [MVP]" wrote:

Glen Scales [MVP] · Guest

There are few ways you could go about tackling this one way would be to
actually send that appointment invitation to the resource mailbox and then
use some code to connect to the resource mailbox and use the OWA accept
function which will process the appointment properly and send the response.
eg something like ive posted here
http://gsexdev.blogspot.com/2004/09/processing-meeting-requests-remotely.html
Doing it manually could work as well by just creating a copy of the
appointment in that mailbox it would be a little harder and actually getting
the attendee status to work properly might take a bit of time and
experimentation. Some (not a complete list) of the properties you would need
to set

urn:schemas:calendar:uid
urn:schemas:calendar:meetingstatus

<mapi:apptstateflags dt:dt=""int"">3</mapi:apptstateflags> (this will set
the meeting status to 3)

and there are a bunch of named properties
http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/id/{00062002-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}/0x8218
(set this to 3 to indicate an accept)
http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/id/{00062002-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}/0x8205
http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/id/{00062002-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}/0x8220

have a look at
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.win32.programmer.messaging/browse_frm/thread/d3df2646c8f922aa/d2efbf2ea19112c3?lnk=st&q=0x8218&rnum=2#d2efbf2ea19112c3
for a discussion on these

Cheers
Glen

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Glen Scales [MVP] · Guest

Oultook has a feature called Direct Booking which is what i think your
referring to have a look at
http://www.slipstick.com/calendar/skedresource.htm for more information.
With this feature an invite is never actually sent to the resource mailbox
outlook actually connects to that mailbox and creates the appointment.

You could code the same type of feature using WebDAV but you might be better
of just using one of the autoaccept event sinks either the Microsoft one
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3D0884E6-C603-491D-BF57-ACF03E046BFE&displaylang=en
or the open source one on sourceforge.
http://autoaccept-sink.sourceforge.net/

Cheers
Glen

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