Pocket Informant 2007 Help Please

[Steve-C]

Hi,

I'm using Pocket Informant 2007, but I can't seem to get it to send meeting requests.

If I cancel a meeting that has attendees, it will put an cancellation email in Pocket Outlook ready to forward to my PC for sending at next Activesync connection, but I can't seem to find a setting that will allow it to send requests to new meetings.

If I use the standard calendar it does send requests. It even lets me chose which email account to use.

Is this a feature that Pocket Informant doesn't support? Rather glaring ommission if it doesn't! I have searched Google, the Pocket Informant manual, the settings and Google searched the forum, but can't seem to find any information either way. This seems to suggest it's a feature that Pocket Informant 2007 doesn't support. Anyone know if v8 supports it if 2007 doesn't?

Thanks

Steve

[MACkjam]

I use PI v8.51. It definitely lets you choose contacts to invite and sends email to them confirming appointment. I think that this is also supported in PI 2007. It is a basic Outlook function.

You need to open calendar, new appointment, then it will display tabs at the bottom. One of them is for inviting contacts. It wil also ask you if you want them to be notified. It also alllows you to select a category for meeting etc. and to make notes.

Check it out and let me know if you come right.

Regards,

MAC

[Steve-C]

Hi MAC,

Thanks for the reply. You are right, there is a tab for selecting invitee's. But, when I select a contact, it doesn't give me the choice to send a notification. If I check the outbox (or inbox, sent etc) on Outlook E-Mail there is no email waiting to be sent. If I cancel the meeting, a meeting cancellation email does plonk itself in the Outbox ready to send next time I use Activesync.

The only way to send a meeting invite using PI2007 seems to be to create a meeting with attendee's, sync with my PC, then open the appointment in Outlook on my computer and send the invites from there (it does helpfully tell me that invites haven't been sent). Which seems a bit of a faf!

If I use the default Calender that comes with WM6, and I create a meeting with attendee's, it asks me how I want to send the meeting invite. Just seems strange that such a killer app like PI2007 doesn't have this function and I felt I must be missing something! Maybe that was a short coming of PI2007....

[MACkjam]

Hi MAC,

Thanks for the reply. You are right, there is a tab for selecting invitee's. But, when I select a contact, it doesn't give me the choice to send a notification. If I check the outbox (or inbox, sent etc) on Outlook E-Mail there is no email waiting to be sent. If I cancel the meeting, a meeting cancellation email does plonk itself in the Outbox ready to send next time I use Activesync.

The only way to send a meeting invite using PI2007 seems to be to create a meeting with attendee's, sync with my PC, then open the appointment in Outlook on my computer and send the invites from there (it does helpfully tell me that invites haven't been sent). Which seems a bit of a faf!

If I use the default Calender that comes with WM6, and I create a meeting with attendee's, it asks me how I want to send the meeting invite. Just seems strange that such a killer app like PI2007 doesn't have this function and I felt I must be missing something! Maybe that was a short coming of PI2007....
It definitely places an email in outbox on mine. Perhaps you need to check on email account to be used in PI.

[Steve-C]

Perhaps you need to check on email account to be used in PI.

I can't even find an option to select an email account! :confused:

However I can find options for just about everything else....so I guess it's back to searching.

Thankyou for your help though.

Regards
Steve

[PiperD]

It definitely places an email in outbox on mine. Perhaps you need to check on email account to be used in PI.
Sorry to hijack the thread - but I've got PI 8.51 and can't find the setting to tell PI which Outlook account to use to send attendee updates. You seem to be suggesting that such a setting exists - if so, would you mind giving me some direction? :)

[MACkjam]

Sorry to hijack the thread - but I've got PI 8.51 and can't find the setting to tell PI which Outlook account to use to send attendee updates. You seem to be suggesting that such a setting exists - if so, would you mind giving me some direction? :)

The option is in Menu>My Informant>Settings>General Application>Send Meeting Requests Via...then select accordingly. On mine only Pocket Outlook is available as an option. I hope this helps.

Regards,

MAC

[PiperD]

The option is in Menu>My Informant>Settings>General Application>Send Meeting Requests Via...then select accordingly. On mine only Pocket Outlook is available as an option. I hope this helps.

Regards,

MAC
Thanks - the option is there, but as with yours it only shows Pocket Outlook on mine as well. Oh well!

[bigchrizzieboy]

I can send them through Flexmail (also from Webis). I think that's why they created the option (i can choose)...

[Steve-C]

Hi all,
Thanks for your help. I finally found the option under settings > Warnings > Update meeting attendees. There are a lot of setting to trawl through!