Re: [Evolution] feature request(s)

[Marc Williams <marcw onlymooo com>]

I understand.  But Non-Participant is (or can be) also used for CC'ing
someone about a meeting.  You want them to know about the meeting but
not require their participation.  This was a often used feature of
Groupwise, the hands down best Groupware app I've ever used.  No offense
intended.  :-)


On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 08:59, Dan Winship wrote:
> > Decline.  I think that Accept and Tentative should both have options for
> > the time being free or busy.  Furthermore, if the invitation was sent to
> > a Required Participant the default for the recipient should be
> > Accept/Busy.  If the meeting was sent to a Non-participant, the default
> > for the recipient should be Accept/Free.
>
> "Non-participant" is generally used for scheduling things like
> conference rooms, overhead projecters, etc. In Exchange, you can set up
> a mailbox for such a resource, and have it automatically accept or
> reject meeting requests based on its calendar. (I assume Domino lets you
> do the same thing.) So you want them to show up busy, so that when
> you're scheduling a meeting, you can check the free/busy time for that
> resource.
>
> -- Dan