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Julia Foran
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Feb 03, 2018
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Accept & Do Not Send a Response

Hi Calendar Community, We'd like your feedback & reactions to a change we're considering:   Current experience: When attendees receive a meeting invite, they are provided with 3 response opti...
  • JackSmith's avatar
    JackSmith
    Jul 25, 2019

    Julia Foran 

     

    What's the status of this change to allow for tracking the response if the user selects "Accept Do Not Send a response"?

     

    Thank you - Jack

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askun
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May 23, 2023
The expectation is that this option does not "send" an email response. If it's supposed to hide the response for some reason (to which I see no point at all), it should've said do not "show" the response. This option should be removed until it is fixed as it's causing huge problems with event planning.
So yes, do not send a response should prevent triggering an email but absolutely display the response in the tracking list.
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    swadegeiger
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    Jun 02, 2023
    FYI, as others have pointed out, certain client applications are starting to "work as expected" in that the option to Do Not Send a Response is not sending an email, but is updating the Tracking status. erikj_UA is reporting success on iOS, Android, and with the Outlook Web app.

    I'm also seeing this "working" in the "New Outlook" desktop app (which is just the web app packaged for Windows desktop - though there are currently loads of other issues there). In fact, it looks like Microsoft have changed the response options, to Yes, I'll attend, I might attend, and No, I won't attend, each with an checkbox option for "Email organizer" (vs. the more confusing "Response" verbiage. Unfortunately, it seems like Teams doesn't have an option for sending a response / email, and always seems to email the organizer.

    In summary, it seems like progress is being made across a large issue, spanning multiple applications, and the terminology is being made more clear in how each of the options will behave.
    • Lucien Riviere's avatar
      Lucien Riviere
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      Jun 02, 2023

      swadegeiger well, hello. this is all very odd. I tracked back to the first entry in this conversation, and I have NEVER seen Julia Foran's 'initial' request for feedback on this. I think I posted a query back in 2016 and about twice a year someone pops up with a response and is just discovering that the Meeting Invite Response system (as it was) didnt/doesnt really work. And I know, I, and other regular contributors over the years, never heard from Julia ever again. I only hope nothing untoward happened to her!

       swadegeiger I am yet to experience of what you write but it sounds positive. Of course, it should always have been a fix in 10 or 11 anyway but I am still on 10. Thank you, and everyone, for looking out for this. Let's put it to bed. Either MS will see sense and fix it properly in the way that the people who actually use the software will benefit or, well, we've managed to get this far, now we know! 

      Be well, take care. Lx

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