janfromfalls church

Q: Work around for the Ical not sending invitations problem

If I understand the problem, ical will not send an email invitation to someone it detects has an ical account. People don't know they have an invitation or they are using Google or Outlook for their calendars. Regardless, they just don't get invitations to your meetings. For whatever reason, Apple is not changing the rules.

 

I was going to start using my Google calendar and just invite myself but I used my Gmail account as my ID for Apple. Ah, the tangled web we weave when we try to be cute with Apple products.

 

Anyway, I wondered if anyone had a work around to this "iCal does not send invitations" problem. I just want the people I work with in volunteer organizations to get an email with the invitation attached. Has anyone found a way around this? I am about to go to Evite!

 

Thanks

Mac OS X (10.7.1)

Posted on Jul 17, 2016 10:43 PM

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  • by appreciate,

    appreciate Jul 17, 2016 11:04 PM in response to janfromfalls church
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    Jul 17, 2016 11:04 PM in response to janfromfalls church

    You can invite people to events using their names or their email addresses. To invite people by name, they must be in your Contacts app with an email address, or they must use the same CalDAV or Exchange calendar service as you (for example, employees at your company).

    Invite people using the Address panel

    1. Choose Window > Address Panel.
    2. Search for people, then drag them to the event.

    Send an email or message to invitees

    1. Control-click the event.
    2. Choose Email All Invitees or Message All Invitees.

    Add invitees to Contacts

    1. Double-click or force click an event.
    2. Hold the pointer over an invitee, then click the pop-up menu .
    3. Choose Add to Contacts.If you don’t see Add to Contacts, but you do see Show Contact Card, the invitee is already in Contacts.
    4. An apple article is there : Calendar (El Capitan): Invite people to events
  • by janfromfalls church,

    janfromfalls church janfromfalls church Jul 18, 2016 4:39 AM in response to janfromfalls church
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    Jul 18, 2016 4:39 AM in response to janfromfalls church

    I am reminded of an old joke about the Microsoft helpdesk where the punchline is "You covered all the facts, your answer is correct, but it does not solve the problem"

     

    Check the treads and you will find "invitations not being delivered" going back to 2011 at least.  This is not a problem with my understanding how to send. It is that recipients are not receiving emails with invitations in them.  I spent an hour on the phone with support on this.  Now, I am a very, very powerful and influential guy (??) but if they have not looked into the problem after all that, they aren't going to look into it for me.

     

    I know you had to post the instructions but I need to find a way for the recipients to receive the invitations and I would prefer to stay with the icalendar because it is so cool.

     

    Thanks.

  • by chwmilcon,

    chwmilcon chwmilcon Aug 9, 2016 5:52 AM in response to janfromfalls church
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    Aug 9, 2016 5:52 AM in response to janfromfalls church

    I would agree that using the "Send email" option isn't an option.  The email that's sent generally isn't formatted so that other email/calendars can easily parse it and make an event.  You end up having to retype the pertinent information.

     

    I have found that if you look in the console that many, but not all times, that invitees don't get their invitations that the calendarAgent is timing out trying to send.   It has been the general suggestion of support in the end to delete the calendar after backing it up and reloading it.  Support has even gone as far as having me re-upgrade El Capitan, which also hasn't fixed the issue.

     

    Support & Community have suggested it's because my invitees were using Outlook, which they aren't they are all other Mac's.

     

    I've also been told that it's because I am using or not using iCloud.

     

    I share this not as a solution, but in the hopes that others see that there are and have been systemic problems with the Apple calendar software.