The fact that invitations disappear from the Inbox as soon as you responded to them is standard-behaviour for all eMail-Software and is not related to Cisco, Webex etc. Or perhaps the host uses an invitation-template thats causing issues?Īt home I am using an eMail-application called "eM Client" and even this lesser known application isĬapable to handle webex-invitations properly = transferring all content from the invitation-message into a new calendar-item. If your setup does not handle invitations properly by losing information this may be a software-/configuration-issue It does not matter if it´s a "real life" meeting in room 123A, just a phone-call or a webex-meeting. The contents of an Invitation-message does not influence how your eMail-application handles such meeting-invitations. on your smartphone you will very likely use 2 apps: one for emails, another for calendar. It´s obvious that this requires that the email-application "knows" that there is something like a calendar - either as part of the own feature-set or as a separate application. Meeting-Invitations are very similar: they are just eMail-messages with a special formatting/hidden markers that help the eMail-application to understand "ah! this is a calendar-thing". To stay compatible with eMail-applications which are not capable to display HTML-formatted messages, it´s still common practise to additionally include the message in plain text-format.
HTML makes it possible to send plain text - but with some "markers" in it that may say: "display the next word in bold" etc.Īs soon as this HTML-feature was embedded into email-applications, we were able to send formatted messages with colors,īut the contents of the messages is still only plain text - it´s just interpreted by the eMail-application and displayed accordingly. With the success of Webbrowsing the technology "HTML" gained popularity. Long long ago, eMails had no formatting (italic, bold, colors etc.) but just plain text. in handling meeting-invitation - regardless of the type of english is not my native language, my explanation may be a bit cumbersome - allow me to try again:ĮMail-applications (gmail, Outlook. Is copied/merged/converted to a new meeting-event-entry in your default-calendar - therefore the invitation-message will disappear from your Inbox.Īll this is standard-behavior of email/groupware-applications like Outlook, Lotus/IBM/HCL Notes, etc. If you accept the invitation, a positive message is sent to the host AND the contents of the invitation-message That you declined he will see a summary of all answers in his meeting-status-info.ĪND: the invitation-message is automatically moved from your Inbox to the trash. If you decline the invitation, an eMail-message is sent to the host, telling his eMail-application Your eMail-application recognizes this and offers buttons to accept or decline this invitation.Īs soon as you click one of them, some things happen automatically:
EMail-application I have ever used works the way you described:Įvery meeting-invitation is just a special type of eMail-message.
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