A magazine complains about Notes calendaring
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From Computerworld NZ comes the following: Last week we detailed our problems with invitations and Notes propensity for deleting them inappropriately. It seems we're not alone in our loathing.
Now we all know Notes does not just delete your invitations. You have a thing called Preferences for what you want to do with them. It is called workflow and removing clutter from your inbox. If I respond to an invite, why wouldn't I want it to add it to my calendar, let the chairman know and then remove it from my inbox in one click? Do I need a mail message in my inbox to remind me of a calendar entry I already responded to? Oh wait, they discover their complaint later in the article: However, another E-Taler, Mac this time, says our invitation problem occurs somewhere between the desk chair and the keyboard. But he's put us right.
Mac does agree that this might not be the most intuitive place to oput such an option, and that few people need to have it switched off in the first place. He also, quite pleasantly, points out that Notes is designed with security rather than openness in mind. He's also offered Notes counseling should it all get too much for us again.
So we know he is referring to user preferences in the mailfile (I had to shrink down the text). After some careful searching, I found out the origination of his complaint. He had not turned the preference either way, and the admins did not set any policies to help, so everytime he deleted it from his inbox it removed the entry.
See Notes is a mail-based calendaring product. Which makes it work so wonderfully well. It took time for some other vendors to catch up in being able to send invites over the Internet. A little training and exploration goes a long way in a mail client that you have been using for quite soime time from reading back.
As for the statement that Notes is based on security rather than openness has nothing to do with his issue. Nor is it a point to address in this posting. Security and how a calendar invite is handled have no bearing on each other. Sorry you are secure, let me do exactly what I told you to do in preferences? Huh?
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On Wednesday, April 12th, 2006 by Chris Miller
