Sounds good, but often, these people (clients I work with) aren't iCloud users, so an invitation wouldn't work. Perhaps just adding them to the location field will work well enough. > On Jan 15, 2015, at 6:42 AM, Nicholas Parsons <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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] >> <mailto:[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] > <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>.
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