This is _still_ the same general set of functionality encompassed by 
the other ticket. Continuing to update this one isn't really helping.

OK, I've checked with some of my users to get some more feedback on 
things. In most cases, they say they are accustomed to checking 
freebusy or looking at the calendar directly. The situation they 
experience happens something like this:



The owner of the calendar is adding an event to his calendar, and 
meanwhile his secretary is on the phone with someone else asking to 
schedule the same time. On of them beats the other to the punch, and 
one of them submits a short time later... now there's a conflict.



In the process, they both checked their availability (calendars are 
side-by-side in Horde), saw nothing was scheduled, and proceeded 
believing all was fine.



For that reason, primarily, they really prefer it if saving the event 
resulted in a quick check and a prompt if it conflicted with another 
appointment. From the prompt they could choose accept or decline... 
accepting would create as it does now, decline would take them back to 
the edit event page and allow them to pick a new time.



Any thoughts? I'm very willing to consider alternative ideas if you have any.

Hmm, it would be acceptable to me, yes... I'll run it by those who 
asked me about it and see what they think. I'll post again this 
afternoon.



Not trying to be difficult, I just want to make things easy for users.

You are always shown your own f/b info, so that should do it, right?

Actually, I just read 2127 again... that functionality is suitable for 
scheduling meetings with others... but what happens when it's your own 
calendar and you forget that you have an appointment because you 
(conveniently) "forget" to actually go to the day and visually confirm 
you're free?



I was disturbed at the number of secretaries who "memorize" their 
staff's schedules and encounter this problem. Clearly, I'm working to 
try to retrain them to do it right, but sometimes these little things 
have big benefits.

duplicate of ticket 2127

I have had requests from users to provide some sort of conflict 
management for new events.



Ideally, they would like to have options to either allow conflicts, 
disallow them, or prompt if a conflict and give them the choice to 
back out of the new event.