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I'm new to LotusScript. I need to write an agent to create a calendar entry or appointment. How do I go about this? I have searched on LDD and OpenNTF but can't find an example. Do you know where I can find a snippet?

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ANSWERED July 2004:
If you were to use Java, there's an API called Domino Collaboration Objects (DCO), which you can download from the IBM website as part of the Domino Java Toolkit. For LotusScript, I don't know of a corresponding utility. However, all DCO is, is an extension of the normal Notes functionality. A calendar entry is just a NotesDocument in the user's mail file, with certain field values. Here's sample code for creating them:

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/46dom.nsf/0/b3db80db49c254728525688d0040a321?OpenDocument
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/46dom.nsf/0/55f043373393c2c285256b7a00651b00?OpenDocument
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/46dom.nsf/0/f3f81e989e596ef285256e4e005c9238?OpenDocument

Many more examples can be found by searching for appointment and notesdocument in either the Notes 4/5 forum or Notes 6 forum on IBM/Lotus DeveloperWorks (a.k.a. LDD).

An easy way to find out what fields need to have what values for the particular style of calendar entry you want to create: create one using the Notes client user interface. Then, from the Calendar view, open the Document Properties dialog and use the second tab to see the names, datatypes and values of all the fields.

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