I have to admit, this has been an ongoing problem for me that I have really been too lazy to figure out. Every time I went to send someone an iCal invitation by right clicking on the event and hitting “Mail Event”, the email would show up with “(null) invites you to…” and the person on the receiving end would not be able to open up that iCal invite.
I basically thought, “Well, I did send the invite; they can just add it to their own calendar!” No one really said anything… until Kali spoke up! She was telling me she couldn’t add my events and had to add them on her own, just an extra step for everyone.
I was playing around in my Address Book today and noticed that my “Personal Card” in Address Book did not show my email address. I then added my email address to my personal card and randomly sent another iCal event. It was like magic—Kali could open it and it no longer said “null” it read “Katie invites you to…”!
Moral of the story is that if you are seeing (null) in the subject line when you are sending iCal events, add your email address!
Sometimes these SIMPLE things can really throw you for a loop. I guess have to start showing up for meetings now!