Meeting invite does not show date/time before it is accepted
My thunderbird system got upgraded to 91.2.0 (64 bit).
Now when I receive meeting invites (probably through *.ics files) they are displayed without any indication of the meeting date/time time (see attached screenshot). For a new meeting I can accept/tentative/deny them but not see details, and once I've done that there is a details button that will actually show me the proposed date/time but no way of denying it. This makes it almost impossible to decide whether I need to accept or deny the request.
The only way around I have found so far is to look at the message source, figure out the date/time from there, but that is very, very awkward and time consuming.
I found out that when you click the triangle before the inviters name, the actual request is shown, with the date/time information. This makes it workable, but the question remains why a lot of meeting information is shown, but not the time. My guess is only the description is shown and not the important additional meta data.
I do like the fact that the links are now actually clickable in the actual meeting entry, that is a huge usability improvement.
The actual meeting request (sensitive info removed/replaced with dummy info:
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Chosen solution
Hi, I had the same issue, but I think that I found the solution now: you just need to click on the small arrow '> Paul' in your case and then it will expand the invitation.
Cheers
Andi
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Chosen Solution
Hi, I had the same issue, but I think that I found the solution now: you just need to click on the small arrow '> Paul' in your case and then it will expand the invitation.
Cheers
Andi
Have the same issue but have just upgraded to 91.3.0 and does not fix it. As Andi states, you can get click on the small arrow to expand the invite but until I read this above, had no clue how to show the invite date/time.
Must be a simpler way to expand the invite for Microsoft Teams invite. Gerry
I have the same problem and I am now glad to have found a workaround solution here. But I agree with the others that there needs to be a more user-friendly way to display the invitation date.
The UI for this most certainly needs to be improved. I almost missed a meeting because the contents of the email had very little content. Some sort of differentiation between the meeting and the contents of the email needs to be there. Personally I'd put it on the level right below the bar that you can accept on, or put another button that allows you to view the details on the same level.