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Calendar Invites - Sharing / Forwarding

DrewAment

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If you are a vender - why in the world would you send out a calendar invite that is locked from being forwarded/shared - or lock the ability to invite other people by your attendees?

Imagine sending a calendar invite to a IM or MM. Who does some "pre-recon" on your pitch and thinks the GM should come. If he forwards a "locked invite" to the GM, that GM is unable to add it to there calendar by just a click. And, in some cases he wont even see the date/time info -- just a bunch of links (zoom, webex, etc) -- and he now has to manually add to his calendar, if he even wants to take the time.

We are not the NSA, and nothing we do in the car dealership world is a secret, security risk, or "special" -- even if you think your AFD and widget are going to revolutionize the business.


I hereby declare that all meeting invites should be sharable and open to forwarding and invites - STOP THE MADNESS!


** too many programs, calendar, email -- (Outlook, gMail, GoDaddy, etc etc) -- to go into how to "unlock" in each. If you don't know if/how - google it, or run tests on your meeting invites by sending one to OUTSIDE your org, then trying to forward that invite to someone else outside your org.
 

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A vendor complained that some salespeople send calendar invites with restrictions that prevent attendees from forwarding them to others or adding additional participants, which creates friction when team members like inventory managers want to loop in their GM. The thread revealed that many industry professionals were unaware this feature existed, and the consensus was that such restrictions are unnecessary and counterproductive in the automotive industry where information sharing is standard practice.

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