[dstevens]

I sync my phone to MS Exchange via MFE and when I look at calendar meetings I cannot see who the organizer is as well as attendees. This is a big deal as I have several meetings a day and sometimes double or triple booked. I need to see which meeting I must attend or can miss so knowing the organizer is a must. Am I missing something or is this a HUGE omission for a device that is marketed and sold as a business tool?

[jmills01]

I'm currently evaluating the E71 for a possible rollout to 1000+ users in the UK (currently Windows Mobile users).  I have also noticed the lack of any information on organiser or attendees.  I've researched this pretty thoroughly (I think) and I'm pretty sure you haven't missed anything and I can't find a way of seeing this either.  I'm at the latest firmware (110.07.127) and latest MFE version (2.7, or 2.07 - it can't quite seem to decide).

The closest I've managed to get was downloading a trial version of Papyrus Symbian S60 Calendar from www.sbsh.net.  This does show the attendees, although not the organiser.  Sadly, however, it also didn't work properly and resulted in loads of "memory full" errors and other issues.

As you say, if this is being marketed as a business tool it's an absolutely crucial and basic feature without which we can't really use it. And having to buy 3rd party software to get it is not the right solution.

I don't know if you've also noticed this issue but MFE doesn't seem to correctly or reliably synchronise all calendar items anyway.  I've had my device for 2 weeks and have missed 2 important meetings as they'd just not syncrhonised into the calendar, even though the synchs were marked as complete and successful and all the other meetings had synced.  Unless you can rely on all meetings consistently synching than you can't rely on the device at all.

I have also tried RoadSync to try resolve the above issue, although again, very grudgingly as I don't see why you should have to pay extra to get the basics working.  Others report better experiences but I couldn't get RoadSync to work at all on my E71 / Exchange 2003 backend, so that's another idea out of the window.

So, for me, E71 is a beautiful, generally smoothly working but fatally flawed device as it stands.

Calling all Nokia folks - you guys really need to sort this out urgently or we'll have to keep using Windows Mobile.

[pstensg]

Compared to MFE the Windows Mobile doesn't show your company adress list in mails. Neither the Windows Mobile nor MFE shows attendencees, but i still prefer MFE to WM because of the company adress list. Also the possibility to prevent mails etc. to pass through outside "office hours" is a very good "nice-to-have" feature.

[lampie]

I'm just new on the E71 platform. I just bought the device because of the poor reliability of WM devices. But What I miss most is creating an meeting request from the phone. Why is that feature not enabled on the Calendar / MFE. I tried several Exchange sync tools, but no one give me that feature. Another bad thing is, that while you viewing the email you can filter the mail by typing a character. These features make working with the Smartphone must nicer. But, above all, the create an meeting request and invite someone, is a primary feature which must available on this kind of phones. For now I'm very disappointed for the features which are basically available. 

[dstevens]

pstensg:

Not sure what WM phone you are using but you can see the organizer and attendees in WM calendar meetings.  You can also access the company address list when creating an email or scheduling a meeting.

[sujit_md]

It appears that the default calendar on e71 is not a native application but it works due to the fact that officesuite software is installed.

Nokia ships the e71 with a officesuite version of 4.5 where as the latest version is 6. It is quite possible that they could have fixed these issues in 6. Has someone tried version 6??

-Sujit

[xivius]

QuickOffice 6.0 does not provide this information.
There is no 3rd party application available at the moment to invited attendees for a meeting

[federyko]

I had a WM 6.1 Standard device for a couple of year and I can guarantee that:

1- attendees are managed on meetings

2- company directory is accessible

3- accept/decline on invitations in managed

Moreover, the support to attendees is full: I mean that I can add/remove attendees from meetings and the system notifies the change to all attendees vie email automatically.

It was a big disappointment for me to discover that S60 does not manages this...

Ciao