Notification with Calendar Attachement

So you are sending an order confirmation to your meeting attendees when they register (using Personify's Notification Services) and you want to attach an Outlook ICS file to put the meeting in their Outlook Calendar. All you need to do is have a notification event for that meeting and attach the ICS file to the notification email.

An ICS file is a simple file defining you event. Details can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar.

Create you event on your calendar, then click on Actions, Forward as iCalendar. The file in the email is an ICS file that you can attach to your notification emails.

If you open the ICS file in NotePad it will look something like this:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 11.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:REQUEST
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20081112T140000Z
DTEND:20081114T210000Z
LOCATION:Somewhere Sunny
TRANSP:OPAQUE
SEQUENCE:0
X-MICROSOFT-DISALLOW-COUNTER:TRUE
UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E008000000008014BB16AD44C9010000000000000000100
000002EA11601D9E28D4A9CEE04CA5EDE5162
DTSTAMP:20081112T151124Z
DESCRIPTION:Here are the details of my Annual Meeting\n
SUMMARY:Annual Meeting
PRIORITY:5
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1
CLASS:PUBLIC
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Not to complex.

Applies to: Personify

The Personify OPEN Summit

So have you been wondering what I've been doing since joining TMA Resources? Well now is your chance to see: come to the Personify Open Summit, December 1st & 2nd in Washington, DC at the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center.

If you were at the ASAE annual meeting in San Diego back in August, you saw the launch of Personify Open, which promoted the open API model, the Personify platform, and our partners who are integrating their products with Personify. The Personify Open Summit takes things a step further by providing association professionals the opportunity to learn how the open API model is revolutionizing the way associations conduct business.

Keynote speaker JP Morgenthal, tech evangelist and emerging technologies thought leader, will kick off the Open Summit with a presentation on the value of the open API model and how this model is revolutionizing the way associations conduct business.

Then several TMA Resources’ solutions partners will demonstrate how they have used this model to build out-of-the-box integrations between their products and Personify. As the Partnership Manager, my job is to get partners to build standard out-of-the-box integrations with Personify. We will have partners show their integrations with content management systems, email marketing, exhibition management, social neworking applications, and online customer support.

The second day of the Personify Open Summit is designed for developers and those interested in getting into the nuts and bolts of the Personify platform. Similar to the Developer Day held at the TAUG conference in Louisville, this course will provide a hands-on, in-depth technical tour of Personify. There will be intro and advanced tracks.

You can register for just the first day or for both. Learn more at http://www.tmaresources.com/opensummit.

Hope to see you there!

Applies to: Personify