When a internal user, external user or participant is invited to a meeting, an email containing details of the meeting is sent to the invitee. The meeting functionality uses iCal, a standard for calendar data exchange, to send meeting requests to all meeting invitees via email. An iCal is also generated and sent to all invitees if the meeting is updated or cancelled. When a invitee is invited to a meeting the invitation is displayed in their calendar. For each invitee invited to a meeting the status of their reply e.g. Accepted, Declined, and their attendance is captured.

Example

Linda Smith is a 31 year old single parent. She has a 10 year old son, Robert Smith. Linda Smith is out of work and is having difficulty finding a job, as a result she claims of being stressed and not having enough money to provide for herself and her child. A Child Welfare social enterprise folder (SEF) is created for Linda and Robert Smith and a multidisciplinary team is assigned. The multidisciplinary team assigned to Linda and Robert Smith's Child Welfare SEF consists of external users such as Robert's teacher and internal users such as an agency worker. A new meeting is scheduled from the SEF's calendar by Robert's teacher, all invitees are informed of the meetings details by email. Personal information manager (PIM) integration with Curam meetings is provided so that meeting requests will appear in the invitees PIM. This means that users can view meetings scheduled in Curam in their PIM calendar and accept or decline meetings using their PIM calendar without having to log into Curam. The user's acceptance through their PIM calendar will be saved on the Curam calendar so that the meeting organizer can view all acceptance responses.