[CAL-815] Automatically add calendar invitation to user's calendar

[joaomelorodrigues]

Not sure if this is implemented. But every calendar confirmation received in the email is not automatically added to the user's calendar (e.g: Outlook) and they forget the meeting.

I've seen something here that could be a solution? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49354486/how-to-get-ics-calendar-invitation-to-automatically-add-to-calendar

_CAL-815

[zomars]

This will vary on each calendar app and would need to investigate/implement individually.

[joaomelorodrigues]

People are failing our booked meetings almost everytime because they said it didn't show up in their calendar...so this is a huge issue and important feedback.

[joaomelorodrigues]

Would be very very useful, right now every one says they booked but nothing shows on their calendar, so I have to message everyone with a remember notice 😅

[Udit-takkar]

tried bunch of things like

attachments: {
        filename: "event.ics",
        content: this.getiCalEventAsString(),
        contentType: "text/calendar: name=event.ics; component=VEVENT",
        contentTransferEncoding: "7bit",
        contentDisposition: "attachment",
      },

and

 headers: {
        "Content-Type": ["text/calendar", "name='event.ics'", "component='VEVENT'"],
        "Content-Transfer-Encoding": "7bit",
        "Content-Disposition": ["attachment", "filename='event.ics'"],
      },

but not working

[zomars]

Let's put it on low priority for now

[joaomelorodrigues]

Hope to get it fixed soon!

[oliviertassinari]

I seem to systematically experience this issue with people that book in my calendar, while their email is on Microsoft Outlook & Team (I'm on Google Workspace). So far it happened:

• Feb 22, two staffs remember at Orrick didn't get a confirmation or an event in their calendar.
• Two other times in Jan I don't remember exactly.

I will keep this list up to date with more occurrences, as they happen, it will help debug.

[PeerRich]

escalated to medium priority

[Udit-takkar]

@PeerRich the PR has been approved by @joeauyeung. can you also test it or ask anyone else to test and merge it ?

[PeerRich]

@G3root can you test?