How can I add an email to an iCal event?

[orbdrums]

I am trying to add an email to an iCal event so that I can pull up the email from an appointment and I am having no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Clark

 

[calsci]

if you are accessing the appointment from an iphone or ipod touch iphone 3.0 has an auto link feature i believe. you could add the email address in the note section. or you could add the physical email for for word as a note for the appointment. not sure if you meant full e-mail or some ones e-mail address. when the appointment rolls around click on the address or email. hope that will work.

 

[orbdrums]

Actually I created an iCal event and I received an email that pertains to the event. I just want to link to the email from the iCal event so I can open the email from the iCal event. Maybe it's something that can't be done but it's a rather common function in Microsoft Outlook. I'm new to the Mac so I'm trying not to sound stupid.

 

[calsci]

I never actually used the function in outlook. It seems like it would be a good idea to have. Are you using ical on a mac or the iphone? When I am on my mac and I need an e-mail i just open mail and get it (I never turn off mail or safari). I end up putting a reminder to look at the e-mail in the note with the subject line in bold so i can remember to look at it. Then I go to mail open it up and type in the subject line bam there is my email.

short one now that feature would be really nice to have on my iphone.

 

[RumMunkey]

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Does iCal support data detectors? Type the email address in the "Notes" (or is it "Comments"?) field. Close the event, then re-open it and see if you can click the email address.

I have no idea if this works, but I would think so.

 

[orbdrums]

Okay all, here we go. I got this to work by opening an iCal event and clicking on edit. I then dragged an email to the URL input and let it go. The URL now displays "Show in Mail" and when I click on that, it brings up the email. Now I need to find out how to delete the link to the email in the iCal event. I might have to delete the entire event but at least I found out how to make this feature work. I hope this helps.

Clark

 

[woondig]

I've been wanting to do this same thing. I tried what you said orbdrums, and it shows like it's a link when I drop it in the url field, but it does nothing if I try and click it. Plus when I close it and reopen the iCal event, it is no longer in the url.

Figured out anything else?

Thanks.

 

[ignazio.viola]

Thank you

Just to say thank you guys for posting this, I was really waiting for that! Cheers.