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April 16, 2024
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Recurring Meetings all but disappeared in V.6

  • April 16, 2024
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It seems to me that V6, grandly renamed Zoom Workplace, is a less than welcome regression as far as usability is concerned when dealing with recurring meetings.

 

Recurring meetings are hidden as a tiny afterthought at the bottom of the calendar tab, which, while bad, would not be too awful if Zoom could synchronise with a personal Outlook account.

 

Additionally, to add insult to injury, you cannot create recurring meetings with a No Fixed Time recurrence from the apps, and the ones that are created from the web show a daily recurrence.

 

So, I would suggest that

1) You separate again meetings from calendar

2) Fix the No Fixed Time recurrence

 

I am so peeved at the change that I have been looking for alternatives to use with my students.

 

Lorenzo

Best answer by dhughes

Fixed it:

Sign on via the website.

Goto "My Account" in upper right

Goto "Settings" on the left

Select the "Meeting" tab

Turn off "Merge Meetings and Calendar tabs"

Signout of website and app

Sign back in

 

19 replies

Newcomer
April 24, 2024

100% agree with previous comments.  All my meeting are recurring meetings and I now find it impossible to start a meeting from the app and must use saved URL links.  Very, very frustrating.

dhughesAnswer
Newcomer
April 25, 2024

Fixed it:

Sign on via the website.

Goto "My Account" in upper right

Goto "Settings" on the left

Select the "Meeting" tab

Turn off "Merge Meetings and Calendar tabs"

Signout of website and app

Sign back in

 

Newcomer
April 25, 2024

Also agree with previous comments. Some of my recurring meetings have completely disappeared. It is now a multi-step process to access the ones that do appear and to start their meetings. I tried to sync with calendar (which like above I don't myself need to do, I just need to access meetings quickly) but the sync failed. The UI changes make the app much less usable and desirable.

CarlaA
Community Manager
Community Manager
April 30, 2024

Hi everyone!

 

In your settings: https://zoom.us/profile/setting, you can disable the Merge Meetings and Calendar tabs. This will add a Meetings tab to your navigation menu in the Zoom app and allow you to view your upcoming meetings as before. 

 

 

 

Let me know if that helps!

Newcomer
August 7, 2024

Following your directions I find nothing that says Merge Meetings and Calendar.

 

Why was this change made? Frustrating and unnecessary.

Newcomer
September 19, 2024

Does anyone know if there is a new workaround? 

Newcomer
September 19, 2024

renatomen (user) gave me the perfect solution. I was able to fix the issue with just one little tweak:
1. Go to "meetings" in the left column
2. Select the "previous" tab at the top of the meetings list
3. Click on one of the previous recurring meetings, NOT on the edit button, on the meeting link itself
4. You should see a selection that says something like 'end recurring meetings on (a given date)
5. a calendar will pop up and you will have to scroll through the calendar to the date you want the meetings to stop recurring.
6. VOILA! the existing meetings reappear and you can now 'add a single session' just like you could before.
Thank you to rentamoen (user) for this fix.

CarlaA
Community Manager
Community Manager
September 19, 2024

Hi Zoom Community members! I sincerely apologize for the delay in my response to your posts.

 

I’m sorry to share that my previously accepted solution is now outdated. The setting for merging the Meetings and Calendar tabs was removed from the Web portal on September 16, 2024. For Zoom Workplace app version 6.2.0 and higher, the tabs are now permanently merged to enhance visibility of calendar views and meeting details. More details on this change are available in our support article: Using the merged Meetings and Calendar tabs. Using the "Agenda" option will provide a view that is more similar to the previous Meetings view, rather than a full calendar view

 

 

I understand this change may be frustrating for your unique use cases and I promise to do my best to deliver your feedback to the relevant product teams. Thank you for your understanding. 

LnzMrtAuthor
Newcomer
September 30, 2024

Dear Carla

I need the recurring meetings to be clearly visible. I do not need calendar integration.

All my meetings are recurring meetings and having to hunt for them is totally silly.

I don’t get why the Zoom team keeps on adding "improvements" clearly targeted to large corporate users, and removes what works!

Having the list of recurring meetings did not hurt anybody.

Is there a way to downgrade to a previous version?

 

Newcomer
September 24, 2024

Thank you Carla for listening to feedback and letting us know the  old workaround is no longer available. Since the Zoom team started messing around with the visibility of recurring meetings I have, like many other users going by these message boards, regularly had to find workarounds to get to my recurring meetings. The problem I think is rooted in the Zoom team's strange obsession with integrating Zoom with calendars. I want Zoom for meetings. I will sort out my calendar myself. I always use recurring meetings and never use the calendar in Zoom. I've seen that comment from other users. If Zoom could stop trying to be everything for everyone, this kind of UI problem might stop. Not wanting to integrate Zoom with a calendar is not a "unique" use case. I suspect it's quite common.

 

Newcomer
September 24, 2024

I would like to be able to use recurring meetings without calendar integration, as well.  It used to be easy and very functional. 

 

Furthermore, I use some standard lines repeatedly (scheduled and non-fixed-scheduled) and didn’t enjoy how the calendar integration led to my room names being changed.  

Newcomer
October 14, 2024

I think you can still do that on the website. It at least has the no fixed time option that was removed from the app for some reason several versions ago, if that helps.

Newcomer
September 30, 2024

Hi

Newcomer
October 1, 2024

This is really annoying, I am really trying hard to understand why Zoom is trying to hide away reoccurring meetings so badly.

 

A big part of my meetings are reoccurring ones, and Zoom hides these in a way that I could easily miss them by using the Zoom Client. This drives me away from using the Zoom client because it makes me feel like I can not rely on it. I assume that was not the intention here.

We need the option back, I don't want these meetings to me "merged" or "grouped". These are meetings which happen on a specific date at a specific time, and that is what Zoom should be showing!