Can't manually change response

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Hi,&nbsp;I'm not sure what happened with my Outlook as this feature worked before and it is still working for my other colleagues who I assume run the same version of Outlook as me as it is pushed out centrally.&nbsp;The thing is that when I open an already existing meeting in a shared calendar and switch to the "Tracking" tab I can't manually change peoples responses anymore. Before I could just click on the word "None" in the "Response" column and I got a drop down list with response options like declined, accepted, tentative etc.But now nothing happens when I click on the word "None". Right click does nothing and double click just opens the profile of the person that is invited.&nbsp;This is very annoying as I am working quite a lot with this and many times find myself in situations where I need to change this manually.&nbsp;Outlook version: 2303 (Build 16227.20258 Click-to-Run)&nbsp;

svhelden · Answer

RiDELL&nbsp;Not sure what you mean. So, there is a meeting, and you want to change someone else's response?

ridell · Answer

svhelden&nbsp;Yes, that is exactly what I want to do.And like I said, it worked before and it still works for my colleaugues.&nbsp;The reason why I want this feature to work is that we are booking meetings for other users in our business and sometimes they just reply on Teams that they will join. Then we need to set the person as Accepted manually so that my other colleagues can see that a certain user accepted.&nbsp;&nbsp;In a perfect world I would not have to do this if everyone just answered their invites in a timely manner. 🙂

svhelden · Answer

Ok, so you book a meeting with me, I decline, and you change my answer to "Accepted"? Interesting concept. Personally I'd consider it a bug that it has worked before 😉

My guess would be that either your assumption that everyone would run the same Outlook version is wrong, and the behavior has been changed (I'd call it "fixed") in a recent update, or it has something to do with permissions (like you had full access to the invitee's mailboxes before.)

ridell · Answer

svhelden&nbsp;why would I changed a declined invitation to accepted? Sometimes we have lazy technicians that just wont act on the invitation. But this is not really the point here.&nbsp;&nbsp;I think your reply is pointless as you are just assuming. I wrote here hoping that someone that actually knows could give me a suggestion what could be wrong based on whether the function should work or not.&nbsp;

svhelden · Answer

All I can say is that if what you want works, I would consider it a bug. The "Response" column should show what the invitee responded. If the invitee did not respond then it should show "None".Maybe someone else can comment on this topic, I'm out. I initially commented because I wasn't sure if I understand what you want. Now I do.

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