LO41101: ENHANCEMENT REQUEST - ALLOW MEETINGS GREATER THAN 24 HOURS DURAT ION

APAR status

• Closed as duplicate of another APAR.

Error description

• We understand that currently Lotus Notes/Domino does not support
  
  meetings/appointment entries that lasts longer than 24 hours and
  that
  current functionality is provided by "All Day Events" type of
  entries.
  We have users requesting for this functionality as All Day
  Events do
  not allow for calendars to be blocked out with specific start &
  end
  times while meetings cannot be longer than 24 hours.
  
  The current workaround we are using is to create multiple
  calendar
  entries for the different days we want to block out. For
  example:
  Creating an entry called "Annual Academic Conference" starting
  at 12pm
  (1 June 2009, Mon) to 4pm (3 June 2009, Wed) the user will have
  to
  create 3 different calendar entries:
  
  1. Meeting from 12pm (1 June 2009) to 12am (2 June 2009)
  
  2. Meeting from 12am (2 June 2009) to 12am (3 June 2009)
  
  3. Meeting from 12am (3 June 2009) to 4pm (3 June 2009)
  
  This will create the effect of creating a single meeting entry
  that
  spans multiple days giving the user control over start and
  finish times
  as well. We also observed that Microsoft Outlook 2007 allows for
  such
  functionality without the need of creating 3 multiple entries as
  it
  does not have a 24 hour duration limitation for meetings.
  
  Please view the attached screenshots for better understanding of
  the
  situation:
  
  notes_24_meeting_error.jpg: Error seen when creating a meeting
  longer
  than 24 hours
  
  notes_24hr_meeting_parts.jpg: Screenshot showing workaround to
  create
  meetings longer than 24 hours in parts (3 independent entries)
  
  outlook_24hrs_meeting.jpg: Screenshot showing entry created in
  Outlook
  2007 spanning more than 24 hours without needing to create in
  parts.
  The feature to create meetings longer than 24 hours allow staff
  to
  block out times (e.g. during conferences, equipment booking) on
  their
  calendar generally without the need to create finer grained
  entries of
  sub-events.
  
  We appreciate your consideration to implement this enhancement
  in
  upcoming revisions of Lotus Notes/Domino.
  

Local fix

• Create repeating entries - customer does not want to use the
  workaround.
  

Problem summary

Problem conclusion

Temporary fix

Comments

• This APAR is associated with SPR# DLUI7PNAVY.
  This APAR is a duplicate of LO31760
  

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