GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 705700
Allow editing of response when accepting or declining meeting invitation
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:46:46 UTC
When accepting, marking tentative, or declining a meeting request, I can't find a way to edit my response. This is a feature parity request to match Outlook. This is useful to coordinate inline with the meeting instead of accepting or declining, then sending a separate email that isn't attached to that thread. If there is a way to do this in the existing UI, I'm not seeing it.
Why exactly does hitting Ctrl+R" and sending a text reply to the invitation email not work?
because then you cannot respond to the actual meeting request. You can write an email that appears to have nothing to do with the meeting request. Outlook lets you add a message to your response to the meeting request. That's quite handy when you decline a request saying that you won't have time the month or so.
I need this feature as well.
This feature would be highly appreciated, if added.
The best way to move forward is to provide a patch. Please check https://wiki.gnome.org/Git/Developers if you are interested. Thanks!
In addition, it seems that Evolution does not respect the "Request a response to this invitation" setting from Outlook. For reference, the Outlook feature is documented in step 5 at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb899621(v=exchsrvcs.149).aspx. It seems that if the meeting organizer sets the invitation to not send responses, Evolution sends the responses anyway.
(In reply to Don Pellegrino from comment #6) > In addition, it seems that Evolution does not respect the "Request a > response to this invitation" setting from Outlook. How do you connect to the server, please? Being it evolution-ews, then it's bug #786095.
(In reply to Milan Crha from comment #7) > (In reply to Don Pellegrino from comment #6) > > In addition, it seems that Evolution does not respect the "Request a > > response to this invitation" setting from Outlook. > > How do you connect to the server, please? Being it evolution-ews, then it's > bug #786095. Sorry, please disregard Comment 6. The behavior I experienced is exactly Bug #786095.
I agree this should be a feature add.
Please avoid adding "me too" comments. Thanks for your understanding!
My apologies.
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