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When students book in for a careers event, the confirmation email gives them the option of accepting or declining the event on Outlook. This is double handling, as we are using Abintegro as the booking system for events. Responses then come through to the organisers own work Inbox and Outlook calendar. It would be preferrable that students did not have this option, or that it was optional for the organiser at least when creating the event.
The ability to share a created event to the organisers own Outlook calendar is a great feature though, just not for the student side!
Hi everyone, we are actively developing this feature and hope to deploy it to production shortly. There are some caveats for Google Calendar, but in Outlook the feature to send a response to the organiser should be removed. In addition, we are also removing the calendar invitation from other event emails where they weren't required.
I'd like to provide some additional context for this feature request and how we would go about implementing it.
The accept/decline functionality within Outlook is part of Microsoft Office and we don't control this. Meeting invitations may look different depending on the user's calendar application, but most of them work in a similar way. Here's an image from Outlook:
When an attendee is added to an event, we send an email that includes a calendar invitation. To implement this idea, we would remove this calendar invite attachment from the email.
We already have a feature in Events Manager that allows end-users (or admins) to download a calendar invitation to add an event to their own calendar application:
It would be good to know if this feature should be affected.
Yes, make it optional and don't make it an invitation that the student may or may not accept - just add to calendar. I like the feature that adds the appointment into the staff calendars.