What is a location used for in iCal?

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What is a location used for in iCal?

Hi all,

When I enter a new event for iCal, the dialog box that is displayed has a field called "Location". However, anything we enter there results in an exclamation point shown in front of the entery like this: User uploaded file This suggest that the entry is invalid.

We might have use for this field, but I have no clue as to how a location is used, entered, or managed.

Could this be something needed in Open Director?😕

Anyone have a suggestion about this?

thanks

FYI

We use Lion Server. All clients are up on Lion as well all 4 clients and the server are up on the latest versions.

Posted on Apr 20, 2012 9:55 AM

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MadisonP

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Apr 21, 2012 11:05 AM in response to KenHiggins

Greetings Ken,

The location field in iCal is meant for use with a CalDAV server which has locations defined for clients to access. If you aren't using a server which has locations defined you get the exclamation mark. You can still use the field and type in a location manually (and ignore the exclamation point): http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2513

If you are using Lion Server, talk to your server admin to have them define locations for your purposes:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Server/10.7/en/t_ResourcesLocations _gui.html

Cheers.

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KenHiggins Author

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Apr 21, 2012 7:09 PM in response to MadisonP

Many thanks MadisonP -- this sorted things out.

Regards,

Ken Higgins

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Apr 25, 2012 2:58 AM in response to MadisonP

Hi Madison, thanks for this information. Does this mean that iCal will not have the support of knowing the location of appointments (i.e. "you are close to your 12.00 meeting. Take the next left turn"?).

That would be awesome....

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MadisonP

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Apr 25, 2012 7:33 AM in response to alessandrofromportland

iCal in Lion and earlier does not offer that feature.

Mountain Lion is coming out this summer and does have some new Calendaring / Reminder features so we'll have to see what the future holds: http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/features.html#reminders

Reminders under iOS 5 (for iPhones, iPads, etc.) does have something akin to what you describe: http://www.macworld.com/article/1164792/how_to_use_the_ios_reminders_app.html

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Apr 25, 2012 8:06 AM in response to MadisonP

Thanks a lot! The reminders feature is indeed quite useful. It'd be awesome if it had been integrated with the iCal one. One step at a time I guess....

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jflow

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Dec 17, 2012 1:32 PM in response to KenHiggins

Is the only solution here to ask Google to define the locations field as a locations field in their CalDAV server? If so, what is the best way to provide this feedback to Google?

I found this Google Group: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/calendar

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