Reply To: Post Appointments to a Shared Calendar

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Sorry for the delay in our response.

It looks like you can achieve your enhancement request using Formativ. You can write a function to create and send an Appointment when the user being prompted to “Would you like to book an appt now?” and pressed the ok button. If you are using GroupWise 7 then you can create a sub-calendar and share the calendar with other users. Select Calendar folder and choose “New Calendar” popup menu option to create a new calendar. Choose “Sharing…” popup menu option to provide the share users list. You can use the Formativ to create posted Appointment into this shared sub-calendar. Please see below an example to create posted Appointment into a sub-calendar.

See the Object API (http://developer.novell.com/documentation/gwobjapi/index.html?gwobjenu/data/h7ikbsqg.html), Formativ Language Guide and Developers Guide for more information.

  
'-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
' This sample code create a posted Appointment into a sub-calendar called
' "Prenatal Calendar". The idea is to share the sub-calendar with other users so
' that shared users can add or modify the calendar items. This sub-calendar
' option is only available in GroupWise 7 or later version.
'-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sub Main(Client, GWEvent)

  CreateAppointment("Prenatal Calendar")

End Sub



' Create posted appointment in sub-calendar folder. You can share this sub-calendar
' folder with others users so that shared users can view the calendar messages.
sub CreateAppointment(aSubFolderName)

  dim oAppt
  dim oFolder
  dim oSubCalendar

  set oSubCalendar = nothing

  for each oFolder in groupwise.account.calendar.folders
    if (ucase(oFolder.name) = ucase(aSubFolderName)) then
      set oSubCalendar = oFolder
      exit for
    end if
  next

  if (oSubCalendar is nothing) then
    exit sub
  end if


  set oAppt = nothing
  set oAppt = oSubCalendar.messages.add("GW.MESSAGE.APPOINTMENT", fgwPersonal)
  oAppt.StartDate = now
  oAppt.EndDate = DateAdd("h", 1, now)
  oAppt.Place = "Office"
  oAppt.Subject.plaintext = "Test Appointment: " & now
  oAppt.BodyText.plaintext = "Test appointment. Please ignore."


  set oAppt = nothing
  set oFolder = nothing
  set oSubCalendar = nothing

end sub

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Advansys Support