meetelement

Meetelement is a software abstraction used in calendar and scheduling systems to represent a single meeting instance. It encapsulates the data and behavior required to schedule, display, and manage meetings within applications.

A typical meetelement contains: id, title or subject, start and end timestamps, time zone, location (physical or virtual), attendees (with statuses), organizer, recurrence rules, agenda, reminders, and a status field (tentative, confirmed, canceled). Optional fields may include notes and attachments.

Common operations include calculating duration, checking for overlaps with other meetelements, serializing to JSON or ICS, adding or removing attendees, updating times (rescheduling), and changing status.

In practice, meetelement objects form the core unit in calendar APIs and meeting-management workflows. They are mapped to calendar events, integrated with time-zone data, and exchanged via REST or GraphQL interfaces.

As a term, meetelement is not a formal standard; it appears in documentation and sample code as a generic representation of a meeting object across platforms.

See also: calendar event, iCal, event, scheduling API.