I am able to import this .ics file in to Lotus Notes. But when I open it, it is opening as appointment instead of meeting. What changes do I need to do for opening it as Meeting. I am using Lotus Notes Client 8.5.2.
This is working as expected. Per the following doc (Reference #:1288239), Imported calendar entries display in the user’s Notes calendar as appointments, all-day events, anniversaries, or reminders.
However, if the iCalendar was changed to METHOD:REQUEST, then Notes would interpret it as an invite, and when you opened it it would be converted to an invite, added to your inbox, and opened so that you could accept and put on the calendar.
What I need is when I double click on the ics file then Lotus Notes should open it as Meeting draft by preloading Subject, location, time and attendee’s information from the ics file. User just hits the send button so that all the reciepients should get the meeting request.
The best you could probably do is to create a button that has Lotuscript that creates the draft meeting and opens it, but that requires you to construct the note item by item…
If you wanted to explain your use case in more detail, we could consider it while planning future functionality in Notes Next.