# Tell cancellation apart from normal completion

Notetaker endings gained a clearer distinction between a user cancellation, a normal departure and a failure\.

- Schema version: 1
- ID: meetso\-2026\-04\-24
- Slug: 2026\-04\-24\-cancelled\-means\-cancelled\-normal\-meeting\-endings\-are\-treated\-as\-completion
- Period: 2026-04-24 to 2026-04-24
- Published: 2026-04-24
- Updated: None
- History: Development history

Dates describe development history and do not verify when changes became available.

- Banner asset: notetaker\-outcome
- Banner alt: A session leading to separate completion and cancellation markers

![A session leading to separate completion and cancellation markers](/_next/static/media/notetaker-outcome.2macis9row-fh.svg)

## Report a cancellation as a cancellation

- ID: cancelled\-means\-cancelled
- Type: fixed
- Area: notetaker
- Availability: unverified

Cancelling a notetaker was recorded as cancellation instead of failure\.

Already completed, failed or cancelled attempts could not be cancelled again\.

## Treat normal departures as normal endings

- ID: normal\-meeting\-endings\-are\-treated\-as\-completion
- Type: fixed
- Area: notetaker
- Availability: unverified

Leaving after everyone had gone, or after the inactivity timeout, no longer counted as a failure solely because of that ending\.

The activity history still recorded the reason for leaving\.

### Technical notes

- A normal\-completion classification did not by itself confirm that a recording had been uploaded or saved\.