The Calendar integration allows for visits to be scheduled for recipients of meeting invite from web based calender applications. To accomplish this an email special email address must be included within the meeting invite. The system will try to match attendees to visitors based on there email address. When this can’t be done, depending on how the system is configured GUEST will either:
In the GUEST > Configuration > System page under the Calendar Integration Settings heading, there are three settings that will affect how the calendar integration will work. These include:
To schedule a meeting using the calendar integration is the same as scheduling any meeting with your calendar application except for one additional step. In addition to needed attendees, you much include the email address obtained from the Outlook / Gmail calendar integration section of the Information dashboard widget.
That is all that is needed. When saving the invite, Symmetry GUEST will receive a copy and be able to begin to process the request.
If configured an Unknown Visitor email will send out
When doing any type of update to the meeting insure to include all recipients on the updates, other Symmetry GUEST will not received an update to process.
To make it easier to include, you can add a contact Named Symmetry Guest with the email address from the Outlook / Gmail calendar integration section of the Information dashboard widget.