Re: Question regarding sending updates to all attendees when event is copied

Jens Grüntjes <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.horde.kronolith
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Zitat von Michael J Rubinsky <[email protected]>:

> Quoting Jens Grüntjes <[email protected]>:
>
>> Hello list,
>>
>> someone sends an invitation to several attendees and a colleague of  
>> mine accepts the invitation so that the event is created in his  
>> calendar. I have read access to my colleagues calendar and want to  
>> copy that event into my calendar. When I click on "Save as copy"  
>> (hope this is the original English message on the button) every  
>> attendee gets an email from me that the event has changed. This is  
>> a bit annoying (not as much for me as for the other attendees).
>>
>> When I change an event in my calendar and I have to change  
>> something I'm asked if every attendee should be informed about my  
>> modifications. Do I make a mistake when copying the event so that I  
>> did not see a checkbox that asked me if I wanted to notify the  
>> other attendees or is this by design? If the latter applies do you  
>> think it's worth filing an improvement at bugs.horde.org?
>
> I'm not sure if the behavior is actually wrong. Saving an event as a  
> copy saves the event as a completely new event. If there are  
> attendees on this new event, then they would get a meeting notice  
> just as if you just created the event manually. The only part that  
> doesn't sound right is the part about the notices saying the event  
> was updated, as opposed to a new one.
To clarify what I said and to prevent you from digging into the Horde  
code: One of the attendees sent a mail to me (from Outlook I guess)  
which said that I wanted to notify him about the event. After reading  
your comment I maybe have to correct my first post where I said that  
the event *changed*. At http://picpaste.com/event-4gL9jTtr.png I  
uploaded a screenshot from the (Outlook) mail from the attendee.  
Unfortunately it's in German. (Literally?) translated the bold line  
says: "Jens Grüntjes wants to call your attention to 'Sitzung am …'" I  
don't know how Outlook makes a difference between new events and  
modified events, but it might be a new event.
>
> It sounds like what you are trying to do is accept/add this event on  
> your own calendar as if you were one of the original attendees, but  
> without actually being one.
Yes, that's true. But this also holds if I am an original attendee and  
make a copy of an event and put that into a shared calendar.
>
> That being said, I could see adding an extra step when the event  
> being copied still contains attendees - to verify that you really  
> want to copy the event with the attendees or not.
Yes, that would be really helpful. Maybe something like the question  
that shows up when I modify an event with attendees. Kronolith asks if  
I want to send the modifications to all attendees after submitting the  
modifications.

Thanks for your help
Jens

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