Request Cancellation of Event Option When User is Scheduler and Event Owner

14 votes

It would be nice if there were an option for users who are both the scheduler and event owner to request their event be cancelled. Users can currently request to cancel their event, but not if they are the both the scheduler and event owner. The assumption may be that the user would have access to cancel their own event by changing the event state if they are the owner. However, there may be cases when we don't want users to change the event state, but we do want them to have the ability to request that their event be cancelled. We generally avoid allowing users to cancel their own event, as cancelling the event impacts locations, reseources, etc. Most of our users submitting the event form would be both the scheduler and owner, so the current request cancellation feature wouldn't apply in most cases.

Under consideration ** Workflow Suggested by: Anthony Willard (27 Jan, '22) • Upvoted: 07 Dec, '23 • Comments: 2

Comments: 2

05 Jan, '23
Alex Gentry
This is exactly the case at Penn State. We cannot use the request to cancel functionality because our end users are always the event owner + the scheduler and none of them have the rights to cancel their own events.
This is the most requested end-user functionality and would be a big improvement for a decentralized approval structure, allowing all approvals/cancellations to happen within the platform rather than having to resort to emails.
23 May, '23
Julie Hoyenski
We are mainly centralized with a few satellite schedulers for specific locations. I would definitely prefer these schedulers could request cancellation (as opposed to having access to that event state) so we can ensure everyone needing to be notified is in the loop. Our service providers are not yet users/approvers within 25Live.