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#UpdatingEvents
>
> 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

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