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I have a person field in SharePoint form and want to send outlook meeting request to person entered in Person field.

**Note:**I want to this through JQuery/JavaScript/SharePoint client object model only.

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  • Following Url might help you.

    http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/92062/how-to-send-email-in-sharepoint-hosted-apps-2013-for-sharepoint-foundation

     – Prasad Oct 31 '14 at 11:14
  • Above url is for sending mail only. I need to create meeting request! – ateet Oct 31 '14 at 11:41
  • I tried using REST API SP.Utilities.Utility.SendEmail. It work for semding mail to user but I need meeting invites! Which is not happening! – ateet Nov 03 '14 at 05:56

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The way to send a meeting request to Outlook (and have it recognized) goes like this:

prepare an iCalendar file, be sure to set these additional properties, as Outlook needs them: UID SEQUENCE CREATED LAST-MODIFIED DTSTAMP prepare a multipart/alternative mail: Part 1: text/html (or whatever you like) - this is displayed to "ordinary" mail readers or as a fall-back and contains a summary of the event in human readable form

Part 2: text/calendar; method=REQUEST, holds the contents of the ics file (the header method parameter must match the method in the ics). Watch out for the correct text encoding, declaring a charset header parameter won't hurt.

Part 3: Optionally, attach the .ics file itself, so ordinary mail readers can offer the user something to click on. Outlook does not really require the attachment because it just reads the text/calendar part.

Send the mail to an outlook user. If you got everything right the mail shows up as a meeting request, complete with attendance buttons and automatic entry in the users calendar upon accept.

Look this stackoverflow question for details.

As SharePoint has no services to send email message with custom structure, I believe it is not possible to send meeting invite via client API. But if your organization use Exchange Server as mail server then you can use EWS API

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  • :- I'm already doing that thing, using activexobject for IE and setting all the attributes in chrome. But it create only ics file correspondingly, i need to send it to user without server side object. Any possibility with SharePoint new REST API – ateet Nov 02 '14 at 10:13
  • If you can use outlook ActiveX APi why not to create appointment through it? Like in this example? – Ruslan Dayanov Nov 02 '14 at 11:09
  • ActiveXObject feaislity is possible in IE only not in other browser. I need to send meeting invites through chrome where it only download ics file not send it. I can't use HTML5 too ! – ateet Nov 03 '14 at 09:06