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Interim Meeting Request Tool cannot express requirements
Describe the issue
I don't understand how it's possible to request an in-person interim meeting that lasts more than 5 hours on multiple days.
The tool returns an error if one requests more than 300 minutes on a single session, so I have to split individual days into a morning and an afternoon session.
The tool also returns an error if days are not consecutive, so two sessions on the same day also returns an error.
What is the proper way to request an in-person interim with ~7 hours of meetings per day?
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if this an easy fix, I'll just wait. If it will take more than a few days, I'll just request four separate interims.
Request it as four separate interims.
The use-case for day-long in-person interims, especially on multiple days (and absolutely especially if the days are not sequential) is not addressed. Note also that there is a max length for sessions if you're using meetecho that is (IIRC ~4hrs).
On 2024-04-18, at 16:00, Robert Sparks @.***> wrote:
The use-case for day-long in-person interims, especially on multiple days (and absolutely especially if the days are not sequential) is not addressed. Note also that there is a max length for sessions if you're using meetecho that is (IIRC ~4hrs).
We got hit with that at one of the last T2TRG interims. I don’t think meetecho has a limit by itself here, but after the 5 hours that datatracker tells it are over, the existing participants can continue, but new participants are no longer accepted. Until this is fixed, I second the recommendation to do an interim per half-day.
Grüße, Carsten
Can we add a note to the interim scheduling page that says something like "Interims should be <= four hours; use multiple meetings if needed" ?
(Doing label cleanup, apologies that these weren't added mid april) - change here is still queued.
Request it as four separate interims.
The use-case for day-long in-person interims, especially on multiple days (and absolutely especially if the days are not sequential) is not addressed. Note also that there is a max length for sessions if you're using meetecho that is (IIRC ~4hrs).
As I'm once again having to post an agenda four times to four sub-meetings, my ask would be that the time limits be removed, with the API forcing multiple Meetecho sessions if that is appropriate. As it stands, corporate conference rooms are generally not wired for Meetecho, so for in-person meetings this is generally not a real issue.