Thanks for the reply, Ray. Hopefully this is something Google can correct soon (or come up with a workaround). As it stands, this is preventing me from going any further on my development. I can't reset everyone's response whenever I make a simple change to an event.
Furthermore, a lot of the events I'm dealing with will have external attendees. I also need to be able to modify their response via the API. http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=55816&topic=10365 suggests that I should be able to, but this is not working. Perhaps someone from Google can comment on this problem and status? Thanks! -Tim On Jul 26, 12:57 pm, Ray Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > biotech wrote: > > I'm able to consistently reproduce this behavior. Following the > > example on how to update an event: > >http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/developers_guide_php.html#Updati... > > > If I use the sample code posted to change the event title, all of the > > attendees (with exception of the organizer) will be reset to 'awaiting > > response' (<gd:attendeeStatus value="http://schemas.google.com/g/ > > 2005#event.invited"/>). > > > However if I make the same change via the GUI, the attendee status > > remains intact. > > Yes, I can reproduce it also. > > If I change the title or time of an event through the GUI, I see a > pop-up, "Would you like to send updates to existing guests? Send|Don't > Send|Cancel" If I click "Send" the an updated invitation is sent to the > attendees, immediately but the attendee status is not changed from "Yes" > to "Awaiting Response". > > If I change the title or time of an event thought the Java API, the > attendees are changed to "Awaiting Response," but e-mail is not > immediately sent to the attendees. > > > Can someone else give this a try and see if they can reproduce the > > behavior? I'm using PHP, btw. > > Yes. > > I believe that the correct default response should be to change the > attendee status when the title or other information for the event > changes, *and* to send an updated invitation to the attendees unless the > organizer indicates that it doesn't matter. As an attendee, it makes a > difference to me that the title of the event has changed from, "Using > Google Calender Effectively," to "Wasting Time in Meetings" or that the > event has changed from Wednesday to Tuesday. > > The GUI behaves properly, allowing the organizer to make minor changes > to the event without notifying every one if the change is minor. The > organizer knows enough to know what is minor, the API does not. > > I am holding out some possibility that changes made through the API are > batched up and sent though e-mail after some delay, but I haven't seen > them so far. This would be a sensible thing to do. You don't want to be > notified every 5 minutes as the organizer runs though a series of > changes perfecting the event details, but you do want to be notified. > > Ray --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Calendar Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-calendar-help-dataapi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
