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Bug 705700 - Allow editing of response when accepting or declining meeting invitation
Allow editing of response when accepting or declining meeting invitation
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Calendar
3.10.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: evolution-calendar-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks: 703515
 
 
Reported: 2013-08-08 21:49 UTC by PJ Waskiewicz
Modified: 2021-05-19 11:46 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description PJ Waskiewicz 2013-08-08 21:49:10 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.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2013-08-09 04:32:10 UTC
Why exactly does hitting Ctrl+R" and sending a text reply to the invitation email not work?
Comment 2 Tobias Mueller 2014-07-24 12:00:31 UTC
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.
Comment 3 kaare 2016-05-23 07:42:40 UTC
I need this feature as well.
Comment 4 Marc Lang 2016-05-23 08:54:28 UTC
This feature would be highly appreciated, if added.
Comment 5 André Klapper 2016-05-23 09:36:37 UTC
The best way to move forward is to provide a patch. Please check https://wiki.gnome.org/Git/Developers if you are interested. Thanks!
Comment 6 Don Pellegrino 2017-10-18 16:13:37 UTC
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.
Comment 7 Milan Crha 2017-10-19 07:19:27 UTC
(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.
Comment 8 Don Pellegrino 2017-10-19 13:59:36 UTC
(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.
Comment 9 Paul Stejskal 2018-04-10 21:42:40 UTC
I agree this should be a feature add.
Comment 10 André Klapper 2018-04-11 09:35:59 UTC
Please avoid adding "me too" comments. Thanks for your understanding!
Comment 11 Paul Stejskal 2018-04-11 14:20:38 UTC
My apologies.
Comment 12 André Klapper 2021-05-19 11:46:46 UTC
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org. 
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org (resources are unfortunately quite limited so not every ticket can get handled).

If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent
and supported software version, then please follow
  https://wiki.gnome.org/Community/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines
and create a new enhancement request ticket at
  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/

Thank you for your understanding and your help.