I see several problems...

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There are certain items that need to be on most workflow messages. From, Chair and Principal are 3 of them. I do not see them on your note dumps.

Since you are creating a request you do not put on $BusyName. RnRMgr will do that once it actually accepts your request.

Your NoticeType is empty. It should be "I" for an initial invitation or "U" for a reschedule notice.

All R&R requests MUST be given an RQStatus = "T" so that RnRMg will properly process it. Once your request is accepted, RnRMgr will change it to an "A". Since you are "direct booking", if RnRMgr declines your request it will be changed to an "R".

You probably should also have a $CSFlags = "w" to indicate the message is workflow-enabled. You are after all generating workflow for RnRMgr to process.

You should include a meaningful _ViewIcon value. 0 is undefined. You want something like 133 for the Invitation. (Check the Appendix of the C&S Schema doc mentioned at the bottom.)

You are missing an UpdateSeq item. You should add one and it MUST ALWAYS be greater than or equal to the SequenceNum item. On that same vein, you are also missing the $CSWISL item. For more info on that see the C&S Schema doc (ref at bottom).

The Event Descriptor is an in-memory structure we use to track the request and all kinds of info about it (and the entity the request is for). We do not have any external documentation on it that I know of. For now it is simply best to say "RnRMgr had a problem initializing the event description data block because something was missing." In your case it was several items.

Although the currently published C&S Schema doc does not have a ton of R&R data in it (the revised one we have been working on does), you can still use it as a very helpful reference tool. You can find it at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/documentation/dw-l-calendarschema.html

Bruce
IBM