having 2 calendars with one merging into another dynamically

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We need to 2 calendars, one for our customer and one for us. Our calendar
will have all the customer calendar info plus more info so we want to make
the customer calendar, which can be a public folder or a shared Calendar only
account. the base calendar should merge (ex/import or forward calendar
events, etc) to our calendar. When I do the export to csv and then import
from csv I can select to not have duplicates. This works fine.
However, I'm setting this up for a Senior Executive of the company and I
can't ask this executive to ex/import every time since the customer calendar
changes often so I somehow need to automate the process by having a batch
file on her desktop or any other way.
Another alternative I'm looking at is that when an entry is made to the
customer folder, a forward e-mail is sent to the shared folder calendar
account, i.e, our calendar which has more info than the customer calendar.
This, however, ends up with the message being received in the Calendar only
account Inbox with the meeting request as an attachment and our calendar NOT
being updated.
I've spent 2 full days trying to find a solution but not yet come up with
one which is better than manual ex/import.

Help help help...
 
Hi Sue,
Thanks for your reply. I've already checked those but there doesnt seem
to be anything that matches what I really need. Maybe if I tweak this a bit
I could get it to work. The customer calendar is now set up as a public
folder. I tried to set up a forward email address but when I posted an event
to the folder the forward email did not go. So I manually forwarded the
event. It went into second calendar (the one which should have more
information than the customer calendar) as an Inbox attachment even though I
set the Calendar options to auto accept meeting requests on the second
calendar.
Could this be made to work?
 
Not without a fair amount of programming.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
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Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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