A common scenario is removing an empty topic from a minutes which was injected automatically because the topic was not closed in the previous minutes. When deleting this topic it will also be deleted from the meeting series topcis list together with all information which might be added in previous meetings.

To solve this problem we will close the topic in the topic list of the series automatically when removing the topic. Additionally we will display a hint together with the confirmation dialog which is shown before the topic will be actually deleted. Plus an auto-generated info item will be appended to the topic (living in the series) which makes clear that the topic was removed.

Scenario

• A topic with infos/actions was added in minutes #(n-1)
• The topic will be removed in the following minutes #n
• If #n will be finalized: The representation of Topic T in the parent series will be closed and the recurring state will be removed. This leads to the fact that the topic will not be carried to the follow-up minutes #(n+1) even if it contains sticky info items or open action items. The state of the info items (sticky or not) as well as the state of the action items (open / closed) will not be modified.

ACs

• Write an E2E-Test which reproduces this scenario
• Make sure that the topic will be closed instead of deleted when finalizing the minutes, iff the topic contains items displayed in the meeting series
• Make sure that the topic will not be injected into the minutes when un-finalizing it
• Display a hint which explains this procedure, iff the topic contains items displayed in the meeting series
• If the topic was created within the current minutes it will be deleted silently

Question

• Is it necessary to remove the "recurring" attribute of a deleted topic while setting it to "closed"? --> Yes, it is! When removing a topic the user made the decision that he do not want this topic anymore so we remove the recurring "recurring" attribute, too.
• How should we handle the case if the "to-be-deleted"-topic contains open action items (from previous minutes) ? --> This is not allowed!

Problems with this approach

• By auto-closing a topic the topic will be marked as closed in the meeting series but is not closed in any protocol. This make the impression that an finalize-error might have occurred. --> We solve this problem by adding an auto-generated info item which explains the situation.