The labeling of the links and form fields is confusing. "Create RSVP" doesn't make sense to a user who's familiar with paper RSVPs -- at best, they'd puzzle over it for a second and then think, "oh, this must be how I respond" when in fact it's how they invite others to respond.

Proposed changes:
"create RSVP" -> "invite others"
"update/delete RSVP" -> "update/delete invitation"
"RSVP name" -> "invitation subject"
"RSVP message" -> "invitation message"

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michelejohnston’s picture

michelejohnston commented

I agree. I went through the whole module and switched around the "invitation" and "rsvp" terms because its utterly confusing. You send an invitation to another person, and they RSVP back to you. Your wording is reversed throughout this whole module.

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DeVill-1 commented

I'm a newbie, but I think it should be noted that you should do all your necessary patching to the module BEFORE switching words as suggested in this thread.

I mean, won't it be difficult to find the lines that need to be patched if the words in those lines have been changed?

Or am I totally wrong?

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owahab commented
Version: 4.6.x-1.x-dev » 4.7.x-1.1
Assigned: Unassigned » owahab
Category: feature » bug
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owahab commented

RSVP from Wikipedia is the French phrase "Répondez s'il-vous-plaît" also substituted by "Response Shall Verify Presence".
This was necessary to explain:
You RVSP people, i.e. you request them to confirm their presence in an event. Consequently the naming isn't mistaken, IMHO.

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owahab commented
Version: 4.7.x-1.1 » master
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owahab commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)
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wsuucmedia commented

Your opinion is neither humble nor standard usage of the term. "Répondez s'il-vous-plaît" literally translates to English as "Respond please". You don't send people requests to respond, you send people invitations. Go pick up any book on etiquette to verify. You are going exactly opposite of proper and customary usage of the abbreviation RSVP. Technically, NO ONE sends an RSVP, they send a response as requested to indicate acceptance of the invitation OR inability to attend. Invitations are sent, sometimes requesting a response (aka RSVP) sometimes without (open invitation, such as a larger open-to-the-public party that an exact headcount isn't necessary). Invited persons who mind their manners, when an RSVP is requested, respond with an affirmative or negative regarding their attendance. If it's an open invitation, no RSVP is required. Hence your wording is entirely flawed in the case of an open invitation and your entire effort is of questionable usage when we could just send out an email manually to those we wish to invite with a link to a static page on our Drupal sites and tick the little "read receipt" option in our email client to get more information than your module provides. You may also look it up on http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rsvp (which wikipedia directs you to check anyway):

Verb [another point: one cannot grammatically send a verb anyway, there is no noun subject in the sentence]

rsvp

1. (informal) To respond to an invitation, usually to indicate that one will be coming to the corresponding event.
[snip]
Usage notes

Generally one rsvps to invitations and rsvps for events, as in the example sentences provided.