While the meeting organizer is responsible for creating an agenda for the meeting, he or she may want you to approve the agenda to make sure that everybody agrees on the content of the meeting before starting it. Likewise, the organizer may want you to review and approve the meeting minutes to make sure that everything that happened during the meeting was recorded correctly. MeetingBooster includes an approval system for both agendas and minutes.
You can provide suggestions and comments for an agenda even when you have not been requested to approve it. For more information on doing so, see "Viewing and providing input on meeting agendas".
The number of meetings whose agendas or minutes are awaiting your approval is shown in red next to the Pending Approvals option in the menu of the main window.
Also, an exclamation mark is shown next to the meeting title under Upcoming Meetings, and you receive an email notifying you of the pending approval.
Do one of the following:
Click the link in the email.
Click Pending Approvals in the MeetingBooster main window to see a list of meetings whose agenda or minutes you have been requested to approve, and open the desired meeting for approval by clicking the meeting title.
Click the meeting title under Upcoming Meetings.
Review the agenda of the meeting.
(Optional) Click Approval Status to see a list of attendees requested to approve the agenda, and whether they have approved or rejected it yet.
(Optional) Click Provide Input to provide input before approving or rejecting the agenda. For more information, see "Viewing and providing input on meeting agendas".
(Optional) Click Show Changes to compare the current agenda with previous versions if available. Select the version you would like to compare with.
Changes are shown as follows:
identifies a new topic or a new attendee. In the case of an attendee, clicking the icon shows you a table with his or her attributes.
identifies a deleted topic or a removed attendee. Clicking the icon shows you the deleted topic or the removed attendee with his/her previous attributes.
identifies a topic that has been edited, or an attendee whose attributes have changed (for example because he or she is no longer required to approve the agenda) or another meeting change.
In the case of a topic, clicking shows you what parts of the text have been added, deleted or edited.
In the case of an attendee, clicking shows you a table highlighting the changes made to his or her attributes.
To approve or reject the agenda, click Approve/Reject , select Approve or Reject as appropriate, and click Save and Close. If you select Reject, you are taken to the Comments tab where you can add a note for the organizer explaining why you rejected the agenda.
The meeting organizer is notified of your actions. Depending on the input and approvals/rejections received from you or other attendees, the organizer may decide to edit the agenda and resend it to you for approval.
When the agenda is approved by all approvers, a check mark is shown in the list of meetings.