Repeating meetings

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Repeating meetings

With repeating meetings when you first create a recurring meeting there is a parent document and a response document.

When you make a change to an instance of a meeting you break out the response document into multiple documents with the $REF pointing to the parent document.

Some date / time fields in the parent and response documents need to stay in synch with the original date / time of the meeting while other fields get updated with the new date / time values.

If a single recurring response document has 5 repeating instances in it and you update say the 3rd one here is what you should do:
* Instances 1 and 2 stay in the original response document.
* Instance 3 gets put into a new response document.
* Instances 4 and 5 get put together in a new response document
* The $REF for each document should point to the parent document.

I wrote a Lotus Notes email & calendaring application using C/C++ and I can tell there's lots & lots of rules regarding creation and changes to recurring meetings.

A great resource which will help you is the following link:
http://www-12.lotus.com/ldd/doc/uafiles.nsf/docs/WPNotesCSSchema/$File/csschema.pdf

It's a fairly complete listing of the Lotus Notes calendaring schema, what fields you need to set and when, and what values should be put into the various fields.

Good luck!

Alex
http://www.agecom.com.au

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