Location context, supplemental information, and suggestions for meeting locations

摘要

Enhanced input field features and techniques for displaying and resolving location information in meeting items are provided. In response to a user's interaction with a place name displayed in the location field of a user interface for a meeting item, up to date information is retrieved about the location associated with the place name from a web service and displayed. The display can include a map image tile. In addition to enabling the displaying of up to date information, during creation of the meeting item, the location input field of a meeting item can present location suggestions from within the location input field, for example, as a drop-down listing of possible locations. The suggestions for completing a user's input text string to the location input field can be obtained from sources such as a web service, a mailbox, a managed database/directory service, a history cache/database or a combination thereof.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
displaying a location field of a meeting item to a user, wherein the location field is represented in a graphical user interface and configured to display a place name, the place name comprising a character string; receiving an interaction, in the location field on the graphical user interface, with the place name displayed in the location field of the meeting item, wherein the interaction with the place name comprises: touching of the displayed place name or clicking or moving of a mouse over the displayed place name; and in response to receiving the place name from the interaction with the place name, retrieving information about a location associated with the place name from a web service; and displaying mapping information about the location, wherein the meeting item comprises a meeting item form and the location field comprises a location input field, wherein the place name is one of at least one location suggestion for input to the meeting item form.