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