4.8.4.3 Organizer

Basic Definition | Description| | Example

Basic Definition

Property Name
ORGANIZER
Purpose
The property defines the organizer for a calendar component.
Value Type
CAL-ADDRESS
Property Parameters
Non-standard, language, common name, directory entry reference, sent by property parameters can be specified on this property.
Conformance
This property MUST be specified in an iCalendar object that specifies a group scheduled calendar entity. This property MUST be specified in an iCalendar object that specifies the publication of a calendar user's busy time. This property MUST NOT be specified in an iCalendar object that specifies only a time zone definition or that defines calendar entities that are not group scheduled entities, but are entities only on a single user's calendar.

Description

The property is specified within the "VEVENT", "VTODO", "VJOURNAL calendar components to specify the organizer of a group scheduled calendar entity. The property is specified within the "VFREEBUSY" calendar component to specify the calendar user requesting the free or busy time. When publishing a "VFREEBUSY" calendar component, the property is used to specify the calendar that the published busy time came from.

The property has the property parameters CN, for specifying the common or display name associated with the "Organizer", DIR, for specifying a pointer to the directory information associated with the "Organizer", SENT-BY, for specifying another calendar user that is acting on behalf of the "Organizer". The non-standard parameters may also be specified on this property. If the LANGUAGE property parameter is specified, the identified language applies to the CN parameter value.

Format Definition

The property is defined by the following notation:

  organizer  = "ORGANIZER" orgparam ":"
               cal-address CRLF

  orgparam   = *(

             ; the following are optional,
             ; but MUST NOT occur more than once

             (";" cnparam) / (";" dirparam) / (";" sentbyparam) /
             (";" languageparam) /

             ; the following is optional,
             ; and MAY occur more than once

             (";" xparam)

             )

Example

The following is an example of this property:

  ORGANIZER;CN=John Smith:MAILTO:jsmith@host1.com

The following is an example of this property with a pointer to the
directory information associated with the organizer:

  ORGANIZER;CN=JohnSmith;DIR="ldap://host.com:6666/o=3DDC%20Associ
   ates,c=3DUS??(cn=3DJohn%20Smith)":MAILTO:jsmith@host1.com

The following is an example of this property used by another calendar
user who is acting on behalf of the organizer, with responses
intended to be sent back to the organizer, not the other calendar
user:

  ORGANIZER;SENT-BY="MAILTO:jane_doe@host.com":
   MAILTO:jsmith@host1.com