I am writing calendar events from an external system and sending them to users as an iCalendar SMTP message. This works OK to setup a meeting, but when I want to update, the reschedule notification comes up with a Note Item not found error when I open it.
A further message then comes up: tmpUseLongDate - Incorrect data type for operator or @Function: Time/Date expected. and the reschedule seems to fail.
Any one got any ideas?
Subject: Update to the issue.
The tmpUseLongDate issue is caused by the failure of the iCalendar conversion utility to convert the DTStart & DTEnd components into the StartDateTime and EndDateTime notes fields.
The iCalendar message sent originally looked like this:
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//TS//NONSGML JavaxMail//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:REQUEST
BEGIN:VEVENT
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;RSVP=FALSE:MAILTO:email@Address.com
ORGANIZER:MAILTO:otheremail@address.com
DTSTART:20101209T093000Z
DTEND:20101209T100000Z
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
SEQUENCE:0
UID:d66287a4
DTSTAMP:201011206T120102Z
CATEGORIES:Meeting
DESCRIPTION:This the description of the meeting.
SUMMARY:Test meeting request
PRIORITY:5
CLASS:PUBLIC
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
It creates the calendar entry correctly without any issue.
The update looks like
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//TS//NONSGML JavaxMail//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:REQUEST
BEGIN:VEVENT
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;RSVP=FALSE:MAILTO:email@Address.com
ORGANIZER:MAILTO:otheremail@address.com
DTSTART:20101309T093000Z
DTEND:20101309T100000Z
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
SEQUENCE:1
UID:d66287a4
DTSTAMP:201011206T120102Z
CATEGORIES:Meeting
DESCRIPTION:This the description of the meeting.
SUMMARY:Test meeting request
PRIORITY:5
CLASS:PUBLIC
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
As you can see the DTSTART & DTEND components are there, it is just that they have been uodated to a new date. The SEQUENCE is correctly incremented. So IBM, why is this giving issues?
Subject: Format of dates is backwards
If you look at the invite it happens on 12/9, or December 9th. However, the update is scheduled for 13/9, and there is no month, so the date doesnt get populated, hence the error.DTSTART:20101309T093000Z
DTEND:20101309T100000Z
I believe you meant to schedule this on 9/12 and then to 9/13, which should look like:
DTSTART:20100913T093000Z
DTEND:20100913T100000Z
Thanks
Nate
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