Correlating a file hosted at a file hosting server with a meeting object

A method executed at a file hosting server that executes a file hosting application, the method comprising:

• receiving, from a scheduling application executing on a server computing device:
• an identity of a file referenced in a meeting object generated by way of the scheduling application, the meeting object representative of a meeting that includes attendees, the file hosted at the file hosting server;
• identities of attendees in the meeting object;
• and
• a time specified in the meeting object, the time indicating when the meeting represented by the meeting object is to begin;
• assigning metadata to the file that is hosted at the file hosting server, the metadata comprises the identity of the file, the identities of the attendees in the meeting object, and the time specified in the meeting object;
• and
• at a threshold time prior to the time specified in the meeting object, causing a notification to be transmitted to a client computing device, wherein credentials of an attendee in the attendees have been received from the client computing device, and wherein the notification is caused to be transmitted to the client computing device based upon the metadata assigned to the file at the file hosting server.

A computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform acts comprising:

• at a file hosting server that executes a file hosting application, receiving data from a scheduling application that executes on another server computing device, the file hosting application provides access to files hosted at the file hosting server, the data comprises:
• an identity of a meeting object created by the scheduling application, the meeting object representative of a meeting that is to be attended by attendees;
• an identity of a file referenced in the meeting object, the file hosted by the file hosting server and accessible by way of the file hosting application;
• identities of the attendees specified in the meeting object;
• and
• a time specified in the meeting object, the meeting is to begin at the time specified in the meeting object;
• at the file hosting server, in response to receiving the data, correlating the meeting object with the file;
• and
• responsive to correlating the meeting object with the file, updating an activity feed for the file for each attendee in the attendees, wherein when a user who is identified as an attendee in the meeting object is presented with the activity feed, the activity feed includes an entry that corresponds to the meeting object, and wherein when a user who is not identified as an attendee in the meeting object is presented with the activity feed, the activity feed fails to include the entry that corresponds to the meeting object.