**As** an organizer of meetings
**I want to** prepare my meeting in quiet
**so that** I do not accidentally send out invites while I'm not ready

**Acceptance criteria**

* When creating a new meeting, you end up in draft mode. Begin of the insertion

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End of the deletion * Begin of the insertionIn draft mode, meeting status indicator does not have a drop-down.

* End of the insertion No email notifications or invites are being sent out in this mode

* You can invite participants, and prepare the agenda

* A Begin of the insertionnfoEnd of the insertion Begin of the deletion warning/infoEnd of the deletion banner will tell you that you are in draft mode, and that no emails invites are being sent or updated

* Once ready, you Begin of the insertionopen the meeting.

* To 'open' the meeting, the user needs to either click on:

* The "Open meeting" primary action in the Page Header

* The "Open meeting" action in theEnd of the insertion Begin of the deletion changeEnd of the deletion meeting status Begin of the insertionin the right pane

End of the insertion Begin of the deletion to "Scheduled"

End of the deletion * A dialog asks if the user wants to send invites Begin of the insertion(enabled by default)End of the insertion

* The email updates mode selector Begin of the insertionthenEnd of the insertion Begin of the deletion nowEnd of the deletion appears on the right Begin of the insertionsideEnd of the insertion Begin of the deletion side, enabled by defaultEnd of the deletion

* Begin of the deletion \[open\] Can you go back from Scheduled to Draft??

* End of the deletion It Begin of the insertionisEnd of the insertion Begin of the deletion shouldEnd of the deletion not Begin of the deletion beEnd of the deletion possible to go back to draft mode Begin of the insertion


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End of the deletion **Technical notes**

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**Permissions and visibility considerations**

* _To whom is this feature visible?_

* _When is it not visible?_


**Translation considerations**

* _Key terms and phrases in the key languages_&nbsp;


**Out of scope**

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_Set the_ **To be informed/consulted teams** _field to include all teams necessary to be informed of the changes._