Accepting external .ics invitations

so, this may have been covered here or elsewhere, but i have a client looking for an answer.
accepting an invitation to an event sent as a .ics attachment from somewhere outside the company (using ical server internally) will only show up on a local calendar, not a shared ical server based calendar. is this the way it's supposed to work?
i noticed also that it wasn't possible to copy the event to one of the shared calendars, either. it seems to require a local calendar or nothing.
please post any hints or workarounds you may have used.

One workaround (that's pretty unsatisfactory)…
You can 'cut' the event from one calendar and paste it into the 'ical server' one.
However, as far as I can tell:
- it then looks for attendees from your Open Directory list and shows any external contacts up with an exclamation mark.
- I don't think you can reply to the original invite
- it thinks you are organising the event, instead of being invited to it.
So, you can get it into your server-based diary, which at least shows your non-availability to others on your system, but it's pretty useless in terms of a diary system if you want to work with others from beyond your network.
If your internal users use the Server based account, then you don't get emailed invites (all info comes through the iCal server), which at least makes this less of a problem.
Sorry I can't offer any more help, but if anyone else has any ideas please share them with us.
Kenny

Similar Messages

Timezone in .ics invitation incorrectly taken into iCal

Hello,
With my iPad I receive .ics calender invitations. The invitations that I send from my company computer to my iPad are all 6 hours off.
So I receive an invitation for a meeting 2-3pm EST and it displays at 8-9pm in my iPad when I am about to accept it. So the iPad is in middle-european time. I have checked and tried all the settings for calendar, and I haven't seen any improvent.
Oddly, when I open the same calendar invitation on my Mac, it is put correctly at 2-3pm in my calendar.
Does anyone know what is going on?
Thanks!

I have the same problem. When I accepted an ICS invitation from Kansas, it went onto my cal in their time (one hour behind me); when I accepted an ICS invitation from Spain, it went into my calendar in their time (six hours ahead of me).
This happens from both my iPhone (IOS v6.1.3) and iMac (OSX v10.8.3).
I see similar but not this exact problem spread around the different Apple Communities.
Is there any resolution to this?

Accepting .ics invitations

Does anyone know how to accept .ics invitations in iCal?

Hi everyone,
This is an older thread but I am still having the same problem.
I am using Lion with latest updates and iPhone 4 with latest updates.
We use Google Apps mail for our work email server. I have MAIL 100% working with my email address, and iCal is also synched with my Google Calendar on my MBA and iPhone.
I am one of the few people at my office that uses a Mac, and most use OUTLOOK.
Whenever I get a meeting invite, it shows up in MAIL as an attachment. I double click on it and it auto-adds to the right iCal Calendar, however it gives me no option to accept the meeting.
I have attached photos for how the meeting shows up in my iCal (as you can see, my name still has a question mark and no forms of clicking it allow me to ACCEPT/DECLINE etc.). I have also attached photos from the iPhone (shows the meetings show up, but only in grey-dashed-format)
Hopefully someone can help/advise!
Thanks!

Can't accept .ics invitations in iCal

Hi,
Since I moved to iCloud I have a problem with accepting .ics invitations, which I receive as attachments in Mail. Double clicking a "Mail Attachment.ics" file in Mail adds it to iCal, which after a moment responds with the following dialog: "https://p-02.caldav.icloud.com:443/102203399/principal/ is not a location that supports this request." Two buttons: "Go Offline" or "Revert to Server"
Clicking either puts the invite into the calendar, but not up to iCloud. Taking iCal offline and then back will trigger a sync ("updating…" shows in iCal title bar) but event will still not show on iPhone or on iCloud.com
After approx. 15 minutes the invitation disappears from iCal on the iMac - which brings the desktop calendar into sync with iCloud but without the invitation I tried to accept....
This behaviour has been consistent since I moved to iCloud, for every .ics invitation I have received....
Is there a resolution for this issue?
BR, Ivo

I have the same issue...

Add alarms to accepted ics invites in iCal?

I found several discussions regarding editing .ics invitations in iCal but all were several years old. Here's hoping that there is something more recent.
Most of the time, I simply want to add an alarm to the invited event. I cannot: drag the event to the desktop, as suggested in one answer, because "only the organizer can edit this event"; duplicate the event without sending notifications to everyone else invited; and of course, there is no 'edit' button available.
Is there any solution out there that is quicker and simpler than creating a dummy event for just adding a separate alarm?

Hi John,
I never expected to get the developer on here!
Here's how I've got it set up...
General tab
I've got the Sync Address Book dates to iCal checked.
For Birthday events and Anniversary events I've got the text "Birthdays and Anniversaries" so that they both go into the same calendar.
I've left only sync for group blank as I want it for all.
Titles tab
For both Birthday and Anniversary I've got the the same fields, set to...
First name | Last name | : | type | age
Alarms tab
In this tab I've got
Email: 5 days before at 08:00 ticked for Birthdays and Anniversaries
Message: 4 days before at 10:00 ticked for Birthdays and Anniversaries
I've got no other alarms set.
I've got the email set to my personal email address.
The path for the alarms to my Home folder
Sound for alarms as Basso
When I then close Dates 2 iCal it creates the events in iCal, but not the alarms.
One further query, I've just done a reinstall of my system and since reinstalling Dates 2 iCal the Buy/Register button is greyed out, so I'm unable to reregister it, I purchased it a good while back as I've found it a really useful tool.
Many thanks
Steve

ICal - incoming Mail ICS invites go to wrong calendar - or go to no calendar

My default calendar invites coming in on email (most often through Lotus Notes or Outlook) aren't going to the correct calendar, even though I have my defaults set up. I've reviewed some threads on this and there appears to be no easy resolution: it sounds like an ICS invite will go to the FIRST calendar in your calendar list, not the "default" (only invitations created manually seem to go there). Since I have one "on my Mac" calendar , which always appears above iCloud, incoming mail ICS invites always go there. On Yosemite.. My scenario is:
1) I have one "on my Mac" calendar that I use because there are many reminders I only really need when at the home iMac; otherwise my phone is popping up annoying reminders when my Mac is already doing that (and if Apple had more "sleep" options I wouldn't even have to do this!).
2) In Mail, default calendar is "Work" (in iCloud).
3) Creating new invitations from iCal work fine: they go to "Work" calendar.
4) Any invitations auto-accepted by Mail, however, go to the On My Mac. Thus the suggestion of ordering the calendars won't work unless I can get "on my Mac" below the set of iCal calendars, which doesn't seem possible.
So if there's a way to move "on my Mac" DOWN I guess that would fix it. But really, a default calendar is a default calendar: why would incoming Mail ICS invitations not use it?? Any resolutions?
On another note, the "Auto Accept" option in mail doesn't seem to work consistently. I haven't tested this, but it may only be from Lotus Notes emails, of which I get a lot.
Thank you, Ron

anyone seen this…?

Outlook Users Can't Accept iCal event invites

Microsoft Outlook users can't accept my event invites from iCal.
I already searched through all the possible prefs and settings... at least I think I have.
Can anyone help?
THX!
A.Che

To clarify this issue - (as I am having a similar issue)...
From iCal I can easily accept and respond to meeting requests sent to me from a person using Outlook 2003
The problem is the other way round - My meeting requests from iCal do not seem to be accepted by Outlook. I am generating an email that has a *.ics file extension and it is being sent via mail, but when the recipient (using Outlook 2003) receives the email, it is formatted as plain text and does not have a file attachment.
When that person forwards the message back to me, it DOES have the attachment still attached (which I can open on my own PC).
What is the trick to sending an iCal meeting request to an Outlook user so that they can add it to their calendar (and respond to the request)?? Apparently they receive a plain text email with an attachment that is named "Untitled Attachment" which is then empty (~200 bytes)
Here is a picture of what I am talking about (that they receive in Outlook):
http://screencast.com/t/HntfLYYF5cf
Thanks

How to accept family sharing invitation on windows

how to accept family sharing invitation on widows

Hello Spiky.saeed,
Based on your post it seems you would like to access Family Sharing via a Windows PC. That is possible, using iCloud for Windows:
iCloud for Windows
Thank you for contributing to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Bobby_D

ICal Server external Email Invitations Not working for names with umlauts!!

Hi,
I was testing external email invitations with iCal Server on Lion Server and encountered that if a Name that can Be resolved via iPhone or mac addressbook or even the sending iCal Account contains an umlaut something like this show up in iCal Server error log:
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway] 2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [twext.web2.server#error] [Failure instance: Traceback: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 90: ordinal not in range(128)
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python /twisted/internet/defer.py:388:errback
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python /twisted/internet/defer.py:455:_startRunCallbacks
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python /twisted/internet/defer.py:542:_runCallbacks
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python /twisted/internet/defer.py:1076:gotResult
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      --- <exception caught here> ---
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python /twisted/internet/defer.py:1018:_inlineCallbacks
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python /twisted/python/failure.py:350:throwExceptionIntoGenerator
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twistedcaldav/resource.py:310:renderHTTP
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python /twisted/internet/defer.py:1018:_inlineCallbacks
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python /twisted/python/failure.py:350:throwExceptionIntoGenerator
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twext/web2/static.py:127:renderHTTP
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python /twisted/internet/defer.py:1018:_inlineCallbacks
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python /twisted/python/failure.py:350:throwExceptionIntoGenerator
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twext/web2/resource.py:109:renderHTTP
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python /twisted/internet/defer.py:1020:_inlineCallbacks
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twistedcaldav/mail.py:334:http_POST
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twistedcaldav/mail.py:958:outbound
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      /usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twistedcaldav/mail.py:1199:generateEmail
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [mailgateway]      ]
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [caldav-1] [AuthorizedHTTPGetter,client] [twistedcaldav.scheduling.imip#error] Could not do server-to-imip request : <twistedcaldav.scheduling.imip.ScheduleViaIMip object at 0x103c65ed0> 500 Internal Server Error
2011-09-26 17:01:18+0200 [-] [caldav-1] [AuthorizedHTTPGetter,client] [twistedcaldav.scheduling.scheduler.ScheduleResponseQueue#error] Error during PUT for mailto:someemailaddress@yourdomain: iMIP request failed
And No Email is send!
If changing the Umlaut ü to something like ue in the Sender or Receiver Name everything is alright!
Thank you Apple for obviously Not testing Lion Server for international use :-/
Maybe this help someone else who is using umlauts with iCal Server external Email invitations
Regards
Eldrik

Hello Daryn,
Thinks for commenting. I am very upset that Apple just said "No" when I asked for this to be fixed. There appears to be no way to submit this as an official bug that keeps ical from running.
Apple actually had me reinstall my whole server and the issue was still there and then they just said "Oh, well I will email someone about it.".
This is the first time Apple has stunk it up in my books. This is bad support for Server.
Brad

Cant open meeting.ics invites

Suddenly my iPhone, iPad and Macbook can't add meeting.ics invites to the iCloud calendar. Anyone else seen this? Was working fine a week or two ago.
Running iOS 8.1.3 and Yosemite.

Hi NHC2365,
I'm sorry to hear you are having these issues with your devices. If you are having issues adding event invites to your iCloud Calendar, you may find the information and troubleshooting steps outlined in the following article helpful:
iCloud: Troubleshooting iCloud Calendar - Apple Support
Regards,
- Brenden

ICloud not accepting Google Calendar Invites

I am having problems accepting invites received from Google calendar in iCal on my iMac. Every time I recieve an invitation in Mail and try to add it to iCal, I receive the error below. The invite will be added to my calendar but will not sync back to iCloud and is eventually deleted from iCal on my iMac. The only way that I can get these invites to work is to accept them on either my iPad or my iPhone. Invitations that I create on my iMac sync to iCloud with no problems. How do I get this to work properly?

Same problem here. iCal seems to completely ignore my default calendar setting. I have yet to discern a pattern as to when it decides to use my default and when it decides to use my google calendar as the default. I think that when I receive an invitation on my google email id, it decides to use the corresponding calendar.
I've turned off all of my auto-accept settings in both mac mail/ical and in google calendar. So I now accept all of my invitations manually. Every time I accept I have to go and open it to see what calendar it ended up on and change if necessary. But then I get the error you reported. And I then often end up with 2 entries. One on my iCloud calendar and another on my google calendar which I can't delete.
Drives me crazy. Next step, I think I'll try accepting all my invitations on my iPhone.

When accepting a meeting invitation, I get a completely different meeting

Macbook Pro running Mountain Lion (OSX 10.8.1)
When I try to accept a meeting invitation, it gives me a meeting from over a year ago to accept. This meeting has nothing at all to do with the current meeting or event, yet I constantly get it no matter which invite I open and accept. It is infuriating. I've deactivated the iCloud. I've deleted all my calendars and put in new calendars. No luck. I get the same two meetings randomly when I accept an invite. Doesn't matter if I've already accepted one of the two meetings, those are my only choices.
I have searched and searched and found nothing.
Please help! My calendar is useless. I may as well go back to stone tablets at this rate. ;-)

I would love a solution, too. This issue came up as soon as I updated to the mobileme beta in october. First, all my "on my mac" calendars were deleted with years of needed historical data. Luckily I restored them via Time Machine backup. Then I talked in depth to multiple levels of AppleCare support and they were beyond perplexed. Any calendar invites I receive into iCal will automatically go into the first "on my mac" calendar, and cannot be moved to the mobileme calendars. The only bad solution is to "duplicate" the calendar event, and then move it to whatever calendar you want. Then delete the original event. Unfortunately, even if you select "delete and don't notify" the original event sender will receive a notification. I've also had problems with calendar invites in ical I accepted into mobileme syncing to my iphone and ipad in a format that does not allow me to edit.

Once I accept a calendar invite on my iPhone, I cannot delete or otherwise modify it. Even when it is updated or deleted by the invitor, it does not change on my iPhone. Is there a fix for this?

Once I accept a calendar invite on my iPhone, I cannot delete or otherwise modify it. Even when it is updated or deleted by the invitor, it does not change on my iPhone.

My husband and I both have iphone 4's and we both have this same problem. I have an open ticket with apple, but so far they haven't been able to figure this out. First, they told me the problem was the mail server I was using. So, I tried sending/receiving invites from gmail and yahoo which they told me should work. Neither did. It doesn't matter whether the original invite was created in iCal or in Outlook or Google, once I open the invite in my mail and hit "add to calendar" the event is locked into my calendar. If the originator sends an update or cancels the meeting, I will receive an email with the new info, but the event doesn't change in my iphone calendar. This is completely lame. Why bother putting a calendar app on the phone if it can't handle basic functions?
Did you ever get a response from anyone or figure out a workaround? I'll post if I hear back from Apple with a fix.

Someone created an account with my email, I can't accept a family invite due to country not matching

My email was already in use when I went to accept a family invitation. Someone else had used my email as my name is Laura, username was Lauren and birth date is different. I reset the password and updated my details, however I am still unable to accept the invitation as it says my country is different than my husbands, both USA. In account overview, my country says "us" husbands says "US" in caps. I tried to reset the country by signing up for spotify premium and entering US payment details, but then I was still unable to accept my husband's invitation. Please help. Thanks.

cKuan you din't understand, and please note its not a second hand device ,and even the apple says that the account @aple.com was not verified . Birth date is taking correctly and 1 answer is correct.
i have a simple question for you if i create an email account with apple id it needs to be verified ? right ! unless i don't verify my account i should not have access to my i cloud account and activate find my ipod.
Please not she was not aware about the email account that she needs to provide gmail or yahoo id instead she directly put used P****@aple.com and the id got created.
Thanks,
Sunil

Why can't we accept an ical invitation from a iphone or Macbook on the ipad?

Why can't we accept a ical invitation on the ipad coming from a iphone or a Macbook?

Hi, deemari.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
Here is a troubleshooting article that you may find helpful when experiencing this issue.
Messages (Mountain Lion): Fix video chat issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12060
Cheers,
Jason H.

Accepting external .ics invitations

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for