That's a good point/question. We decided a long time ago to not have
the explicit "Accept/Tentative/Decline" buttons that most calendar/
invitation software has. We also aren't currently able to display/
keep track of Event status for each Event participant.
So perhaps the best thing to do is to make invites Tentative as you
suggested and give the user a chance to accept before it becomes a
permanent BUSY block in their free/busy.
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As for providing users with visual feedback so they know to answer
Invitations in the Calendar...
I think the Calendar Canvas itself would be a poor place to manage
invitations. If someone sends me an invitation for next month, unless
I browse to next month, I am unlikely to see it?
Users will more likely use the Dashboard (table view) as a way to
process new-unread-invitations items. OR
Go to the Inbox in the Calendar App area.
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However, I agree that something that shows "Unread-ness" would be
good even in the context of the calendar canvas...An item could be
"Unread" for several reasons in Chandler:
+ Newly arrived
+ Newly added by a sharee
+ Newly edited by a sharee
We could use the same syntax as proposed in the stamping storyboards.
+ /ED for edited
+ /UP for updated
And then use:
+ /IN for Invite
+ /OUT for Sent invitations
Ideally we could represent these as icons, but text should be OK in
the short-term.
*** We should also only display this stuff ONLY IF the event lozenge
is big enough to display 2 lines of Event Title.
Mimi :o)
On Apr 27, 2006, at 12:17 AM, Philippe Bossut wrote:
Mimi Yin wrote:
Here are 4 possibilities for Tentative (in clock-wise order,
starting with the Wed, 3:30PM event)
One question first: will incoming events (meeting requests received
as emails) be displayed as Tentative events? I'm assuming they do
and this is guiding my choice of design: incoming meeting requests
need to be easily viewed because I have to answer them asap. If
incoming events are not marked Tentative, well, we need a way to
visualize those.
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