Sending meeting request with recurrence

With Aspose.Email, it is possible to generate a meeting request with recurrence. This article explains how a meeting request can be generated with specific recurrence. Appointment Unique Id can be saved for later use for sending any update to appointment.

Generating Meeting Request with Recurrence

The following code sample shows how to achieve this.

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
String szUniqueId;

// Create a mail message
MailMessage msg1 = new MailMessage();
msg1.getTo().add("[e-mail]");
msg1.setFrom(new MailAddress("[e-mail]"));

// Fill appointment object
Date startDate = sdf.parse("2013-12-01 17:00:00");
Date endDate = sdf.parse("2013-12-31 17:30:00");

// Create appointment object
Appointment agendaAppointment = new Appointment("same place", startDate, endDate, msg1.getFrom(), msg1.getTo());

// Create unique id as it will help to access this appointment later
szUniqueId = UUID.randomUUID().toString();
agendaAppointment.setUniqueId(szUniqueId);
agendaAppointment.setDescription("----------------");

// Create a weekly reccurence pattern object
WeeklyRecurrencePattern pattern1 = new WeeklyRecurrencePattern(14);

// Set weekly pattern properties like days: Mon, Tue and Thu
pattern1.setStartDays(new int[3]);
pattern1.getStartDays()[0] = CalendarDay.Monday;
pattern1.getStartDays()[1] = CalendarDay.Tuesday;
pattern1.getStartDays()[2] = CalendarDay.Thursday;
pattern1.setInterval(1);

// Set recurrence pattern for the appointment
agendaAppointment.setRecurrence(pattern1);

// Attach this appointment with mail
msg1.getAlternateViews().addItem(agendaAppointment.requestApointment());

// Create SmtpCleint
SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com", 587, "[e-mail]", "your.password");
client.setSecurityOptions(SecurityOptions.Auto);

// Send mail with appointment request
client.send(msg1);

// Return unique id for later usage
// return szUniqueId;

Send Appointment Update Request

For sending an update for previous appointment, unique id is required. Following sample code shows how this appointment update request can be sent

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
Date startDate = sdf.parse("2013-12-12 17:00:00");
Date endDate = sdf.parse("2013-12-12 17:30:00");
Appointment appUpdate = new Appointment("Different Place", startDate, endDate, new MailAddress("[e-mail]"),
        MailAddressCollection.to_MailAddressCollection("[e-mail]"));
appUpdate.setUniqueId(szUniqueId);
WeeklyRecurrencePattern pattern3 = (WeeklyRecurrencePattern) appUpdate.getRecurrence();
appUpdate.setSummary("update meeting request summary");
appUpdate.setDescription("update");
MailMessage msgUpdate = new MailMessage("[e-mail]", "[e-mail]", "06 - test email - update meeting request", "test email");
msgUpdate.addAlternateView(appUpdate.updateAppointment());
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("server.domain.com", 587, "username", "password");
smtp.send(msgUpdate);