For a long time I have battled to understand how Outlook treats Notes invitations (especially Outlook 2003). I think I finally know “what” it is doing, but now I need to work around its “features”.
Case 1 - from Native Notes, send a meeting invitation to an Outlook user. Outlook gets an email (shows in Inbox as mail), with .ics attachment as well as a .html attachment. .html has a copy of the body field content of the Notes form. To activate the .ics, they have to click on it, then say “OK” to Windows pop-up security message, finally they get the choice to accept, reject etc.
Case 2 - from my application (grafted onto Native Notes mail template). I get the same effect - two attachments, and Outlook user has to click 3 times to get to the invite.
BUT …
Case 3 - from the same application, if the sender has attached anything, then Outlook sees it as Calendar item in the Inbox, and when you open it, you are in - you can accept, reject etc.
BUT …
Case 4 - This doesn’t happen in Native Notes - invites with extra attachments still show up as email and require the 3 clicks.
I think this has something to do with a “feature” of Exchange that I found in an earlier post here …
From what he is saying, Exchange looks for attachments and when it finds one it does something clever. So the fact that I’m attaching a file seems to trigger it off.
But I need to have this effect in Outlook all the time.
Any ideas?