When I get a meeting (appointment) invitation in my GMail inbox from another Google Apps user, there are links embedded in the message that I can use to indicate my meeting attendance: "Going? Yes - Maybe - No"
Are there keyboard shortcuts that I can use to activate each of these links ("Yes", "Maybe", "No")?
I'm quite sure there aren't any specific ones. The ones you could use are tab and enter.
The only e-mails in which Gmail offers specific hotkeys are the Google+ "e-mails" that are actually Google+ posts in Gmail.
There's no way to to this out of the box. I added custom search engine with keyword "yes" and search string
javascript:[...document.querySelectorAll('div[role="button"]')].filter(i => i.textContent === 'Yes')[0].click()
and named it 'Say "yes" to Google Calendar invitation'.
And the other one with keyword "no" and search string
javascript:[...document.querySelectorAll('div[role="button"]')].filter(i => i.textContent === 'No')[0].click()
and named it 'Say "no" to Google Calendar invitation'.
You can also create "Maybe" if you want to.
To run it you should focus URL panel (Ctrl + L or Cmd + L) and they type "yes" or "no" depending on your decision.
How does it work?
Instead of loading search engine URL, this custom engine will execute a small piece of JavaScript. This piece of JavaScript first searches for a button with the appropriate text on the page and then clicks it.
An AutoHotkey shortcut, sending the necessary keystrokes, may be an alternate solution. FWIW, an AutoHotkey shortcut is called a Hotkey.
AutoHotkey is a Windows OS solution. For alternative solutions you may find help here.
