Several reasons. 1. I may accept the invite and then choose to forward it on to someone else in my group. Now I have to go into my trash to find it. 2. I save all invites in a special folder. Often times it is useful to go back and pull info out of them. To do this now, I have to find it in the trash and then move it. 3. I use my inbox as my To-Do list. The reminder of a meeting there can be helpful. 4. The fact that it works differently with an attachment vs not is odd. I hadn't realized this was causing the differences in behavior. Why the inconsistency? 5. When it first started, I had no idea where the invite went. The lack of feedback made me think the system had encountered some sort of error. 6. I think of the invite as another email. No other kind of email that I know of automatically moves itself (that's what filters are for). 7. Sitting here right now, I am wondering what will happen if instead of accepting, I tentatively accept or decline? I can't predict what will happen, so I would think that is generally not a good thing for a UI. 8. What if I accept an invite, but at a later time want to decline it? What if I have emptied my trash in the meanwhile?
Basically, I don't like interfaces that try to guess what I will be doing. If they do insist on guessing, there has to be a setting somewhere in the UI that will let me turn off the guessing if I don't like it. The select whole word vs partial word copy/cut option is an example of a guessing behavior I don't like, but that can be mercifully shut off. On 1/14/09 2:34 PM, "Nadyne Mielke" <[email protected]> wrote: > Why do you want to keep the original invite? > > Regards, > Nadyne. > > Nadyne Mielke | user experience researcher > Microsoft Corporation | Macintosh Business Unit > http://blogs.msdn.com/nadyne/ > > > On 1/14/09 6:31 AM, "Bob Virzi" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Turning off Office reminders also disables email notification, which is not >> what I want. All I want to do is turn off calendar alerts, because I use >> iCal as my alerting mechanism. A while back disabling the demon was >> recommended (by Diane I think) as a solution to the calendar alert problem. >> >> I am still annoyed by the deleted, or as you call them, moved, invites. I >> think this is a case of Entourage trying to be smart, but being annoying. >> I've sent in a suggestion to MS to change this behavior. >> >> Thanks for the input, though. -Bob >> >> >> On 1/13/09 9:51 PM, "William Smith" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Tuesday 1/13/09 12:27 PM, "Bob Virzi" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> This is En¹rage 2008 connected to an exchange server. >>>> >>>> When I get meeting invites, and accept them, En¹rage immediately deletes >>>> the >>>> invite. Doesn¹t even ask me if I am okay with that, and I am not. I often >>>> want to keep a meeting invite around, or possibly even forward it to >>>> someone >>>> else. But I can¹t find any setting that will just leave the messages in my >>>> inbox, allowing me to dispose of them as I choose. >>>> >>>> Any ways to effect this behavior? >>> >>> Entourage 2008 will *move* the invitation to your calendar after your accept >>> it unless it has an attachment. If it has an attachment then it will get >>> *copied* to your calendar sans attachment and the original invitation will >>> be left in your Inbox. >>> >>>> (and I still get notified by the Entourage calendar even though I stopped >>>> the database demon from running on start up. I thought I had fixed this in >>>> the past, but it seems to have come back for some unknown reason. Is there >>>> something else I have to do so I am only notified by iCal?) >>> >>> Don't disable the daemon. That's part of Entourage's functionality that you >>> shouldn't touch. Instead select Entourage menu --> Turn Off Office >>> Reminders. >>> >>> Hope this helps! >> >> YouTalk mailing list >> List address: [email protected] >> List information: http://entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html >> List moderator: [email protected] >> > > YouTalk mailing list > List address: [email protected] > List information: http://entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html > List moderator: [email protected] YouTalk mailing list List address: [email protected] List information: http://entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected]
