Bug - cancellation message sent for saved calendar event w/oinvitations being sent earlier

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Bill Bryson

MacBU:

Entourage is sending a cancellation message when I remove an invitee to a
meeting that I've saved previously in which I have NOT sent any invitations
(Send Now) out yet. This appears to be a bug since why send a cancellation
when no invitations have been sent.
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Entourage is sending a cancellation message when I remove an invitee to a
meeting that I've saved previously in which I have NOT sent any invitations
(Send Now) out yet. This appears to be a bug since why send a cancellation
when no invitations have been sent.
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How do you have an "invitee" whom you have not invited?

This feature is designed to work as a combined calendar+email feature: the
only way to get an "invitee" listed is to click Invite and enter a (name+)
email address, or contact with an email address. Then it's quite clear
you're supposed to click Send or Send Later. If you simply Save, it';s like
a Draft message - and you'll note there's no way to get Attendee status,
since there's no attendees because no one has been invited. I suppose that
if you already have some bona fide invited attendees and "save" another
without sending, maybe s/he gets added? Shouldn't be added to attendees,
though.

"Cancel Invitations" means just that: send out emails to attendees
canceling. What you should be able to do with "saved recipients" of draft
messages to whom you haven't invited yet is select them, and click "Remove".
But when you re-save, _that_ also sends out a Cancel Invitation email! I
agree that that is a bad bug.

But the real problem is that you're using the feature in a way that was not
intended: do not add a recipient if you don't invite him by email. Do not
Save without sending. Perhaps Entourage shouldn't let you do so if it's not
going to let you Remove the recipient silently.

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Paul Berkowitz
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Bill Bryson

Paul,

I used the Save feature because I was testing the broken free/busy problem
when creating an event on a shared calendar (not the attendee status
problem) when adding an event on a delegated calendar.

I do use the Invite button to add people so I can check the free/busy of
each individual. However, I used the Save feature rather than invite people
to a test meeting and peppering them with email invitations. However, when
I decided to remove someone from the list, a cancel message was sent even
though NO invitations were sent. This is NOT correct behavior regardless if
I was or was not using the problem "properly". Besides, I disagree in that
a person could be distracted while composing the invitation list and use the
save and then need to remove someone later from the list (less likely). In
any case, Entourage does not need to send cancel invites to people who never
received the invite to begin with. A minor bug but a bug nonetheless.

Bill
 
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