If the event is at the person’s house or work, you type their name in both the location and invitee fields. If the event is with the person but at some other location, you just type their name in the invitee field. Adding the person as an invitee means that person will receive an invitation to the event, and will receive updates if you change any event details such as time, date or location. It also gives you a handy button to send mail to invitees, and lists each invitee. If you tap on an invitee on the iOS Calendar app you see their contact details and can text or call them. Adding them to the location field means Calendar knows you will want to travel to their address, will let you know when you need to leave in order to reach their in time and shows you a map of the location of the event. So you can use both the location and invitee fields depending on exactly what you want to achieve.
> On 15 Jan 2015, at 1:27 pm, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > > I assume you mean I should type the name in the Location field, not the > Invitees field. If so, will that then know I'm meeting with John? That is, > could I bring up his contact card and text or call him? >> On Jan 14, 2015, at 6:21 PM, Nicholas Parsons <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Yes, absolutely. In the event inspector you can select add invitees. This >> allows you to add people from your contacts. If the event is taking place at >> John’s house, you can type, “John” in the location field, and Calendar will >> pop up suggestions of places you might mean. You can navigate between the >> suggestions using the up and down arrows with QuickNav turned off. One of >> the suggestions will be “John’s Home” or “John’s Work”, if you have those >> addresses in contacts. You press return on the one you want and it will >> insert the address. It will then know where you are going for that event, >> will calculate the travel time for you and can alert you when it’s time to >> leave your current location etcetera. >> >>> On 15 Jan 2015, at 8:13 am, Alex Hall <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> I have a question about calendar events: can I somehow tie contacts to >>> them? For instance, if I have John in my contacts and I set up an event for >>> next week, which is a meeting with John, can I tell that event which John I >>> mean? That way, as I'm looking at the event, I could contact John directly, >>> look up his address as I'm heading over, that kind of thing? I'm not >>> talking about inviting people, I mean indicating to the Calendar app that >>> this event will take place with a particular contact, so I can then quickly >>> access that contact from the event. Thanks, and I hope I'm making sense. >>> >>> -- >>> Have a great day, >>> Alex Hall >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >>> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex Hall > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
