If a person enters "Tentative" in the meeting invite, will that be included in the "meeting hours" and/or "collaboration hours" metrics?

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If a person enters "Tentative" in the meeting invite, will that be included in the "meeting hours" and/or "collaboration hours" metrics?

Demirkaya, Abraham [JJCUS] 1

In the WPA tool, if a user answers "tentative" in the meeting invite, will that be captured in the metrics that measure collaboration hours? Such as, "Meeting Hours", "Collaboration Hours", "Multi-tasking hours", etc. Or does the system recognize if the user is actually attending the meeting or not? Appreciate any help or guidance on this one, thank you!

Regards,
Abe

Yuki Sun-MSFT 41,376 Reputation points Moderator

2021-11-17T06:12:54.783+00:00

Hi @Demirkaya, Abraham [JJCUS] ，

By the "WPA tool", are you referring to the Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA) tool? If this is the case, please understand that under the tag "office-outlook-itpro", we mainly focus on general questions related to the Outlook desktop client and actually WPA is currently not supported in the Q&A forum. Given this, I'd recommend going through the documentation for WPA and see if any relevant information can be found. If there's no document stating this, personally I'd suggest having some tests on your side to see how it's measured.
Demirkaya, Abraham [JJCUS] 1 Reputation point

2021-11-17T13:04:51.917+00:00

HI @Yuki Sun-MSFT , I was actually referring to Workplace Analytics (WPA), apologies for not being clearer in my question. It is a tool used for ONA (Organizational Network Analytics) where we can look at an organizations focus vs. collaboration time by analyzing an employees Outlook calendar and meetings that have been scheduled. Here is a link to some documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/insights/Use/Metric-definitions
Yuki Sun-MSFT 41,376 Reputation points Moderator

2021-11-19T01:32:41.037+00:00

Hi @Demirkaya, Abraham [JJCUS] ，

Thanks for the clarifying and sorry for my misunderstanding about WPA in my earlier post. From the document you shared, seems like the issue is more related to Viva insignts, so I'll change the tag to “viva-insights” instead.
Kael Yao 37,751 Reputation points Moderator

2021-11-19T08:26:56.767+00:00

Hi Abe.

According to this link: Query designer

I suppose by default "Tentative" would also be counted as the user attended the meeting.

It can be excluded from the analysis data.
Please refer to this link: Attendee exclusions
Kael Yao 37,751 Reputation points Moderator

2021-11-24T08:55:23.663+00:00

Hi @Demirkaya, Abraham [JJCUS]

I am writing here to confirm with you how thing going now?
If you have any questions or needed further help on this issue, please feel free to post back.
Demirkaya, Abraham [JJCUS] 1 Reputation point

2021-11-24T13:23:06.997+00:00

THANK YOU! This was super helpful @Kael Yao ! This answer was what I was looking for.
Kael Yao 37,751 Reputation points Moderator

2021-11-25T01:07:20.143+00:00

Glad to hear it helps :)

Your answer

Yuki Sun-MSFT 41,376 Reputation points Moderator

2021-11-17T06:12:54.783+00:00

Hi @Demirkaya, Abraham [JJCUS] ，

By the "WPA tool", are you referring to the Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA) tool? If this is the case, please understand that under the tag "office-outlook-itpro", we mainly focus on general questions related to the Outlook desktop client and actually WPA is currently not supported in the Q&A forum. Given this, I'd recommend going through the documentation for WPA and see if any relevant information can be found. If there's no document stating this, personally I'd suggest having some tests on your side to see how it's measured.
Demirkaya, Abraham [JJCUS] 1 Reputation point

2021-11-17T13:04:51.917+00:00

HI @Yuki Sun-MSFT , I was actually referring to Workplace Analytics (WPA), apologies for not being clearer in my question. It is a tool used for ONA (Organizational Network Analytics) where we can look at an organizations focus vs. collaboration time by analyzing an employees Outlook calendar and meetings that have been scheduled. Here is a link to some documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/insights/Use/Metric-definitions
Yuki Sun-MSFT 41,376 Reputation points Moderator

2021-11-19T01:32:41.037+00:00

Hi @Demirkaya, Abraham [JJCUS] ，

Thanks for the clarifying and sorry for my misunderstanding about WPA in my earlier post. From the document you shared, seems like the issue is more related to Viva insignts, so I'll change the tag to “viva-insights” instead.
Kael Yao 37,751 Reputation points Moderator

2021-11-19T08:26:56.767+00:00

Hi Abe.

According to this link: Query designer

I suppose by default "Tentative" would also be counted as the user attended the meeting.

It can be excluded from the analysis data.
Please refer to this link: Attendee exclusions
Kael Yao 37,751 Reputation points Moderator

2021-11-24T08:55:23.663+00:00

Hi @Demirkaya, Abraham [JJCUS]

I am writing here to confirm with you how thing going now?
If you have any questions or needed further help on this issue, please feel free to post back.
Demirkaya, Abraham [JJCUS] 1 Reputation point

2021-11-24T13:23:06.997+00:00

THANK YOU! This was super helpful @Kael Yao ! This answer was what I was looking for.
Kael Yao 37,751 Reputation points Moderator

2021-11-25T01:07:20.143+00:00

Glad to hear it helps :)

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