Meetings.AddMeetingFromICal Method

Associates a meeting represented in Internet Calendar (iCal) format with the Meeting Workspace site on the specified server running Windows SharePoint Services.

Web Service: MeetingsWeb Reference: http://<Site>/_vti_bin/Meetings.asmx

Syntax

<SoapDocumentMethodAttribute("http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/meetings/AddMeetingFromICal", RequestNamespace:="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/meetings/", ResponseNamespace:="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/meetings/", Use:=SoapBindingUse.Literal, ParameterStyle:=SoapParameterStyle.Wrapped)> _
Public Function AddMeetingFromICal ( _
    organizerEmail As String, _
    icalText As String _
) As XmlNode

Dim instance As Meetings
Dim organizerEmail As String
Dim icalText As String
Dim returnValue As XmlNode

returnValue = instance.AddMeetingFromICal(organizerEmail, icalText)

[SoapDocumentMethodAttribute("http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/meetings/AddMeetingFromICal", RequestNamespace="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/meetings/", ResponseNamespace="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/meetings/", Use=SoapBindingUse.Literal, ParameterStyle=SoapParameterStyle.Wrapped)] 
public XmlNode AddMeetingFromICal (
    string organizerEmail,
    string icalText
)

Parameters

• organizerEmail
  The e-mail address, specified as email_address@domain.ext, for the meeting organizer.

• icalText
  The iCal representation of the meeting that will be associated with the Meeting Workspace site.

Return Value

A Microsoft.SharePoint.SoapServer.SoapXml object that contains the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope 
   xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" 
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
   xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

<soap:Body>

<AddMeetingFromICalResponse xmlns=
   "http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/meetings/">

<AddMeetingFromICalResult>

<AddMeetingFromICal Url=
   "http://server_name/Test Meeting(2)?InstanceID=1" 
   HostTitle="Team Web Site" UniquePermissions="true" MeetingCount="1" 
   AnonymousAccess="false" AllowAuthenticatedUsers="false" />

</AddMeetingFromICalResult>

</AddMeetingFromICalResponse>

</soap:Body></soap:Envelope>

Url  The URL to the Meeting Workspace site that you added the meeting to. It contains a query string that gives you the InstanceID of the meeting that was added. InstanceID  Identifies this meeting instance in the site that contains single instance meetings. If the site contains a recurring meeting, '?InstanceID=' is not appended to the URL. 'AdMode=1' may be appended to the URL as a query string if this site is configured in AdAccountCreation mode. HostTitle  The title of the parent site; if the title of the parent is an empty string, this returns the URL of the parent. UniquePermissions  true or false, indicating whether this site was created with unique permissions. MeetingCount  Returns the number of meetings associated with this workspace. If this workspace contains a recurring meeting, this returns -1. AnonymousAccess  true or false, indicating whether the Allow Anonymous Access feature is enabled on this workspace. AllowAuthentictedUsers   true or false, indicating whether Allow Authenticated Users feature is enabled on this workspace.

Exceptions

Remarks

The organizerEmail parameter is used in delegate scenarios to indicate the organizer of the meeting. If the meeting organizer is not a delegate, it is an empty string.

To access the Meetings service and its methods, set a Web reference to http://Server_Name/[sites/][Site_Name/]_vti_bin/Meetings.asmx.

Example

SOAP Request Format  Following is a sample SOAP request. Replace the placeholders shown with actual values.

POST /_vti_bin/meetings.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: server_name
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length
SOAPAction: "http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/meetings/
   AddMeetingFromICal"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
    xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soap:Body>
    <AddMeetingFromICal xmlns=
        "http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/meetings/">
      <organizerEmail>string</organizerEmail>
      <icalText>string</icalText>
    </AddMeetingFromICal>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

SOAP Response Format  Following is a sample SOAP response. Replace the placeholders shown with actual values.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soap:Body>
    <AddMeetingFromICalResponse xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/meetings/">
      <AddMeetingFromICalResult>
        <xsd:schema>schema</xsd:schema>xml</AddMeetingFromICalResult>
    </AddMeetingFromICalResponse>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

See Also

Reference

Meetings Class
Meetings Members
Meetings Web Service