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Web-based Outlook meeting Invite converter

Submitted by: mdconrad
Created: Nov 1, 2007, 10:51 am

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The Elevator Pitch

For small-to-medium sized businesses who use iCal to manage their schedule the event request converter is a service that automatically convertes forwarded meeting requests to a .ics format. Unlike the clunky option of sending request in non-native formats from Outlook our product is a simple one-step process that requires no work on behalf of the event requestor..

The Idea

You love your mac, iCal's simplicity just "does it" for you - but your co-workers or clients are using Outlook. So, you get those pesky Outlook meeting invites that you can't do anything with. This service would provide users with an email address which they could forward their invites to. Then they would received a reply from the service with the meeting info converted to .ics so it could be added to their calendar. As a bonus, it would work the other direction (.ics to Outlook) and supply your response to request.

I thought of this idea when I was...

I get this all the time from clients who use Outlook/Exchange and it turns into multi-step process to get it on both my calendar and their calendar.

Comments Posted

Kevin_Cox Posted: November 2, 2007, 10:43 am

Get a Trio like me problem solved.

ccozad Posted: November 7, 2007, 12:29 pm

I believe GMail can already do the conversion... so it is Apple's problem...

darlinglilred Posted: November 7, 2007, 2:54 pm

Yes CCozad Gmail is already set for this I just tried it to see.

arthaus Posted: November 10, 2007, 9:44 am

Gotta love GMail. Great idea nonetheless for people who either refuse to use GMail, and love their Macs. But yeah, a lot of Mac programs are ignorant of the fact that most of the general population use PCs.

CyberCerberus Posted: November 13, 2007, 9:05 pm

Not everybody should have to use Gmail to get a function. I use Gmail. I love it. I swear by it. But people shouldn't HAVE to use it to do something like this on their Mac.

mdconrad Posted: November 16, 2007, 8:59 am

Just to clarify on ccozad - it's not really Apple's problem, it's my problem. :)

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