[Bug 810622] Re: Invites can only be accepted into local calendars

Fri Jul 15 07:09:05 UTC 2011

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On 2010-05-07T15:50:23+00:00 Puzzles wrote:

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Lightning 1.0b1

Use case:
I set up Lightning to be integrated with Google Calendar. I have two calendars in Google, but have none locally in Thunderbird. I expect to be able to respond to event invitation letters by accepting, declining, etc. and saving said events to one of my calendars (provided by Google).

The problem:
When I receive an event invitation letter, the toolbar showing the Accept, Decline, etc. buttons is missing (it's there if I have a local calendar). This prevents me from sending out automatic responses and saving the event to one of my calendars.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up a Google Calendar and integrate the service with Lightning.
2. Delete your local calendars.
3. Receive an event invitation letter.
Actual Results:  
The Accept, etc. buttons are not shown for the event.

Expected Results:  
I would expect the Accept, etc. buttons to be shown, as normal.

The issue can be worked around by dragging the letter to the Today pane,
but in this case Lightning sends out invitations to this event to the
other attendees! The Notify attendees checkbox can't be unchecked. The
other attendees can be manually deleted, but that's tedious work for
simply accepting an invitation...

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/810622/comments/0

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On 2010-05-07T15:51:11+00:00 Puzzles wrote:

There might be a connection to the following bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=543471

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/810622/comments/1

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On 2010-05-07T16:19:19+00:00 Ssitter wrote:

Are you using the Provider for Google Calendar? If yes: please read
<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4631/#release-
notes>.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/810622/comments/2

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On 2010-05-10T07:43:28+00:00 Puzzles wrote:

Thank you. I am indeed using Provider and I apparently I missed the
comment about accepting invitations. My bad.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/810622/comments/3

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On 2011-05-27T00:37:38+00:00 Jim-qp wrote:

Sorry if this has been answered long ago, but I feel like I have the
same issue still, and the above answer didn't really address the
underlying problem.

It seems like the main issue is that Provider for Google Calendar /
Lightning can't accept an Outlook/.ics invitation into anything except a
Local Calendar.  Is that correct and by design?

My problem is that the invitation isn't being sent to my gmail account,
so having gmail automatically accept invitations doesn't help.

The invitations come into a work account (we're not allowed to use gmail
for work), and I need to get them accepted into my gmail calendar (which
I can use...).

Currently, I can accept an incoming invitation using
Lightning/Thunderbird, but it saves it to my Local Calendar.  Then, I
have to copy the event into my gmail calendar (in
Lightning/Thunderbird).

What I don't understand is why there's not an option, or it's not
possible, to just configure Lightning to accept the invitation directly
into the gmail calendar?

Thanks very much.

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On 2011-06-23T11:37:35+00:00 M-barrows wrote:

I would second, third and fourth the above comments.

THIS ISSUE STOP LIGHTENING BEING A USEFUL SOLUT|ION FOR ME

We have company calendar's on google
I "see" all those I wish in TB/Lightning - saves me logging into Google
I can accept invites from company employees - event shows in google calendar
However when I accept an invite it's added to the local calendar so

1) The event is not visible to other employees
2) My diary is split over two calendars

point 1 and 2 MAKE THE WHOLE THING POINTLESS

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On 2011-06-23T12:22:08+00:00 Philipp-bugzilla wrote:

I'm sorry this is bugging you, but this is really an issue that should
be fixed at Google first, otherwise its a fight against windmills. I've
referenced the google issue many times before.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/810622/comments/6

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On 2011-06-23T21:08:35+00:00 Dean-2 wrote:

I think I can help.

First, create a new CalDAV Calendar in Lightning that points to your
Google calendar using the following when prompted:

https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/ [ your Google Calendar ID ] /events

Where [ your Google Calendar ID ] occurs above, use your Gmail login
name. Continue through the setup, and you'll eventually be prompted for
your password etc.

Now, your Google Calendar should show-up in Lightning. To accept the ics
file, YOU MUST have Thunderbird Email client set to view attachments
INLINE. If you do so, the Accept Decline ect buttons will show when you
open the email.  ALSO, I've found that you must actually open the email,
not just look at it in the preview window. Hope this helps - it's
working for me.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/810622/comments/7

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On 2011-06-24T16:14:03+00:00 M-barrows wrote:

Dean
Thanks for the reply - tried your suggestion but something it not working correctly. 
1) THe calendar, in TB had warning icon, tip says calendar is momentarilty unavailable
2) The new dav calendar is constantly popping up reminder boxes for ALL items in the calendar. I dismiss all and then they re-appear
3) A warning, saying modification failed, is also appearing when trying to dismiss the reminders. 

On the positive side appointemtns appeared in TB and new events were
created. I didn't get around to teting the original problem until I can
get the calendar working properly

any thoughts

thanks
Malcolm

(In reply to comment #7)
> I think I can help.
> 
> First, create a new CalDAV Calendar in Lightning that points to your Google
> calendar using the following when prompted:
> 
> https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/ [ your Google Calendar ID ] /events
> 
> Where [ your Google Calendar ID ] occurs above, use your Gmail login name.
> Continue through the setup, and you'll eventually be prompted for your
> password etc.
> 
> Now, your Google Calendar should show-up in Lightning. To accept the ics
> file, YOU MUST have Thunderbird Email client set to view attachments INLINE.
> If you do so, the Accept Decline ect buttons will show when you open the
> email.  ALSO, I've found that you must actually open the email, not just
> look at it in the preview window. Hope this helps - it's working for me.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/810622/comments/8

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On 2011-07-11T14:53:52+00:00 Kent-n wrote:

Just upgraded to Thunderbird 5 from 3 and to lightning 1.0b4.  We use
CommunigatePro for our email server which has a CalDAV calender.
Everything worked great in older version, could accept invitations,
saved properly to our calendar.  Now when I hit the accept button, it
just goes away.  If I add a local calendar, it pops up the calendar
selection and if I select local, it works, but if I select my network
calendar, nothing happens...  I can drag the  invitation into the today
panel and that works....

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On 2011-07-12T12:38:37+00:00 M-barrows wrote:

(In reply to comment #6)
> I'm sorry this is bugging you, but this is really an issue that should be
> fixed at Google first, otherwise its a fight against windmills. I've
> referenced the google issue many times before.

Can you reference it again for tose who a new to this - please

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On 2011-07-12T19:14:40+00:00 Philipp-bugzilla wrote:

http://code.google.com/a/google.com/p/apps-api-
issues/issues/detail?id=1079

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/810622/comments/11

** Changed in: thunderbird
       Status: Unknown => New

** Changed in: thunderbird
   Importance: Unknown => Medium

** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #543471
   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=543471

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