Public Calendar Events

[jeremyoniel]

In our company we have a public calendar set up for all company appointments. If someone schedules an appointment on the public calendar and invites a person to that event, the person receives a notification that they have been invited, but is unable to accept that item so that it shows up on their personal calendar.

The options "Accept", "Decline" and "Accept Tentatively" do not show up on the invite. I even tried right clicking on the messaging and choosing accept from the list, but the event still doesn't show up on my personal calendar.

Has anyone run into this issue?

Thanks,
Jeremy

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

In our company we have a public calendar set up for all company
appointments. If someone schedules an appointment on the public calendar
and invites a person to that event, the person receives a notification
that they have been invited, but is unable to accept that item so that
it shows up on their personal calendar.<br> <br> The options "Accept",
"Decline" and "Accept Tentatively" do not show up on the invite. I even
tried right clicking on the messaging and choosing accept from the list,
but the event still doesn't show up on my personal calendar.<br>
<br> Has anyone run into this issue?<br>

I've never seen that. I always get the options to accept or not for
invitiations I receive, but I have to admit that they usually don;t come
from a Public calendar: they usually come from someone else's calendar.

Do you also get the problem if the invite comes from someone's calendar?

Corentin

 

[jeremyoniel]

If someone sends an invite from their personal calendar, it comes through just fine with the "accept" options. It's only when the invite originates from a public calendar that it doesn't have those options.

Jeremy

 

[Barry Wainwright]

Not what I am seeing ­ invitation from a public folder comes through with
accept buttons.

What versions of entourage and exchange server are you running?

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From: <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:54:34 -0800
Subject: Public Calendar Events

In our company we have a public calendar set up for all company
appointments. If someone schedules an appointment on the public calendar and
invites a person to that event, the person receives a notification that they
have been invited, but is unable to accept that item so that it shows up on
their personal calendar.

The options "Accept", "Decline" and "Accept Tentatively" do not show up on
the invite. I even tried right clicking on the messaging and choosing accept
from the list, but the event still doesn't show up on my personal calendar.

Has anyone run into this issue?

Thanks,
Jeremy

 

[jeremyoniel]

Exchange Server 2003 with SP3 or 4 and I'm using Office 2008.

 

[cybrguy]

In our company we have a public calendar set up for all company appointments. If someone schedules an appointment on the public calendar and invites a person to that event, the person receives a notification that they have been invited, but is unable to accept that item so that it shows up on their personal calendar.
The options "Accept", "Decline" and "Accept Tentatively" do not show up on the invite. I even tried right clicking on the messaging and choosing accept from the list, but the event still doesn't show up on my personal calendar.
Has anyone run into this issue?
Thanks,
Jeremy

I am the IT guy at Jeremy's company and I wanted to elaborate a bit.

If someone schedules an appointment on the public calendar and invites
a person to that event, the Sender of the event receives a
notification that they have been invited, but is unable to accept that
item so that it shows up on their personal calendar. Other people
invited to the event recieve the invite and can accept it, at which
point it is added to their private calendars. In other words the
creator of a public calendar event cannot have it transfer to his/her
private calendar without re-creating the event manually.

Another problem we have had is when you create a public calendar
event, you have to manually save it to the public calendar for it to
show up, you cant just create an event, select the attendees, and send
it as you can in outlook. Since you can manually save it we can do
that for now, but the extra step is annoying.

Thank you,
Steven

 

[jeremyoniel]

One correction I have is that it doesn't work for anyone who is invited from the public calendar. both the inviter and the invitee aren't able to accept the meeting request from the public calendar.

Jeremy

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

from the public calendar. both the inviter and the invitee aren't able
to accept the meeting request from the public calendar.

Could it be somehow related to the rights people have on this public
calendar??
Can everybody read and write for instance??

Corentin

 

[jeremyoniel]

I found the issue. If the person I invited was not listed in my address book, they were unable to accept invites to appointments from a public calendar. Once I added their name and email to my address book, I was able to invite them from the public calendar and they could accept it.

I'm not sure why they are required to be in my address book, but it seems to have done the trick.

Jeremy