Enable an option to display declined meetings
Enable an option to display declined meetings in teh calendar (in settings). Often initially one is not available for a meeting, but then due to changes of schedule might be able to join, but since that meeting is not displayed in calendar, simply forgets about that. I found that option very helpful in Google mail that we used up to now in the company.
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Hello all,
While this request is being reviewed for future consideration please try this workaround solution:
• Click on the Deleted Items Folder
• Click on View tab on the command bar
• Choose “Change View – Manage View” command on the command bar
• Click “New” in the right to create a new
• Name the view “Calendar”
• Pick the Day/Week/Month “type of view”
• Click OK. Now you should get dialog that lets you customize the view.
• Now click on Columns –
Change the select available fields in bottom-left to All Appointments Fields
Select the “Start” field on the left and Click Start → on the right.
Select the “End” field on the left and Click End → on the right.
Click OK
• Click on Filter…
Click on the “Advanced Tab”
Click on the Field Drop Down – All Mails Field – “Message Class”
You should have condition as “Contains” .. in Value field type … “IPM.Appointment”
Click to Add to List (below value)
Click OK
• Click OK on dialog containing Columns & Filter button
• Make sure “Calendar” view you created is selected and click on “Apply View”
• By the way, you can use “Change View” to “Compact” to get back to normal look of the Deleted Items folder
421 comments
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Anonymous
commented
Thank you is a very useful and easy trick.
But I have an issue my "Declined meetings" go to Sent Items and I tried to do the same but doesn't work, is there something different to do?
Could you help me out?Thank you again.
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Stephen
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This "work around" is quite ridiculous and not a user-centered approach.
Please implement this. It is important to see invites of meetings you can't attend on the calendar. What was discussed? Who attended? Who should I follow up with? G Suite does this quite well.
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Pieter
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Please implement: Often I need to decline a particular meeting request, only to find my schedule then changes so I can actually attend the meeting - but once I decline the meeting it gets deleted and I no longer know about it or have the information.
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Duyen
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Maintaining declined events on your calendar. Sometimes I accidentally declined OR want to change my response to the event. It's SO annoying to search for it in the deleted or sent folder. Also, I CAN'T FIND IT EVERY TIME. It's VERY frustrating and causes embarrassment when I have to ask the host to resend the event. Please add this feature to Outlook Calendar. It will make everyone's lives easier. Thank you!
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Pam
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The work around doesn't work. If I decline a meeting due to conflict and that conflict is removed, there is no way to reconsider, and accept that meeting. Seems like a popular feature and can't be that challenging to create.
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Alexis
commented
Meetings that are declined should be displayed in the calendar.
Indeed, sometimes we decline because we are on planned Holiday and want the organizer to know we won't be attending for such reason.
Still, we might need to check if the meeting is still happening and contact attendees to provide an offline status (as we can't attend). -
Anonymous
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I also support implementation of such a feature
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Nick
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Many (many, many, many!) times I need to decline a particular meeting request, only to find my schedule then changes so I can actually attend the meeting - but once I decline the meeting it gets deleted and I no longer know about it or have the information. I would like to be able to decline a meeting, but still keep the request on the calendar in case it ends up that I can actually go to the meeting (so I can re-accept). You need three "meeting statuses" - accepted, tentative, declined - and show all of them on the calendar.
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graham.k.hill@outlook.com
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This would be so useful and surely not that hard to deliver.
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Matt Payne
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Can there be an option for the calendar to still show declined appointments but as free time. When I decline an appointment because I am on leave or have another meeting the invite disappears from my calendar. If the other meeting or my leave is then cancelled I do not know I was invited to another meeting which I would then attend. Also I may still need to ask a member of my team to attend and it would be useful to still be able to see the invite because I could make a note who I have asked to go.
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Anonymous
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Show a declined meeting on my calendar
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Anonymous
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I'd like to have the possibility to keep track of the meetings I declined in my calendar which would appear as free but striken down. It happened multiple times that some meetings moved or ended sooner so I could potentially join the declined ones.
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Nicolas
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As stated, the provided workaround on Apr 2 2020 does not work to recover declined instances in a meeting series. Those simply don't appear in the Deleted items view.
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Anonymous
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Fully agree with comment:
Please implement this feature by adding the option 'decline but keep in my calendar'. How hard can that be?
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Anonymous
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On the Outlook Calendar, it would be great to be able to opt for leaving an appointment on the calendar even if you have had to decline. Often I need to remember that the event is happening even though I can't attend.
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Anonymous
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Please implement this feature by adding the option 'decline but keep in my calendar'. How hard can that be?
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Anonymous
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a non-viable workaround before. I routinely get invitations that I can’t accept due to conflicts, but I want to know what I missed. The meeting invitation typically has the URL for notes, and sometimes has other materials attached. Having to search for them and pull them from the Deleted folder is ridiculous!
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Anonymous
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A "workaround" with over 15 steps! You must be kidding. Please implement this feature. My agency switched from Google to Outlook, and all of my colleagues hate the calendar for the reasons others have noted here. Nearly 6000 customers can't be wrong.
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Kevin Fargason
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please add this feature <3
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Sandra Vindelin
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This workaround is not helping if you are delegate to someone. Would be great to have the feature of "decline appointment, but keep in calendar" available. Would be of great help.
