Forum Discussion
Julia Foran
Microsoft
MicrosoftAccept & 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...
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
It appears Microsoft Finally Resolved this issue this year.
According to the Microsoft Support page Shared Calendar Updates in Outlook for Windows under 'Long awaited improvements':
Accept a meeting without having to send a response
If you select Accept > Do Not Send a Response, others can still see your response in the Tracking tab. Previously, the organizer would not see your response if you did not explicitly send a response email. This improvement also applies if you chose not to send a response if you Tentatively Accept or if you Decline.
- What is actually happening, this still hasn’t been fixed for the huge majority of invites that are sent out daily. When is Microsoft going to fix this, after all it’s only been open for 6 years???
Stefan Tucny I disagree that is not resolved, that is a small part of the fix. The majority send invites from an individual email account so this is just the first step to resolving this issue that has been open for years now!!!!
- I think that deciding whether a problem is "resolved" or "not resolved" depends on one's perspective. For the great majority of the users (including me), some of whom who started reporting this problem to Microsoft nearly 10 years ago, the problem is clearly not resolved. I still regularly point out to my colleagues that when they accept my meeting invitation and specify "Do not send a response", I have no way of knowing whether they even opened the invitation.
This "first step" *is* a positive one. But it doesn't yet fix the problem.- Could not agree more and given the majority do send individual invites, Microsoft needs to lift their game. It is a positive step although given it was raised years ago, they are addressing the hardest piece last, which is a shame but hopefully they are closer to closing this out.
Stefan Tucny so this is for shared calendars and not for individuals who set meetings?
I tested this by setting a meeting in my calendar and invited a person. They chose accept and do not send a response and decline and do not send a response (after rescheduling the meeting). Both times the response showed none in the tracking tab.
Brandon Little - I concur. I recently invited a person to a meeting, which he accepted with "do not send a response". Same as before: his acceptance did not appear on the Tracking tab for the meeting. So... was this fix only for *shared* calendars?
- OMG!!!!! Finally!
