1359889 - Cannot add an invite *.ics to my Google calendar

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Calendar :: Provider: GData, defect)

Description

[Worcester12345]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0
Build ID: 20170424145525

Steps to reproduce:

Receive email containing the invite. (invite.ics)



Actual results:

Light blue bar, saying "No writable calendars are configured for invitations, please check the calendar properties".




Expected results:

Should have allowed me to add this invite to my calendar as it used to do.

Thunderbird:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.0.1 ID:20170413214957 CSet: 3b5381b7085b2edb9f4f8176d7f023cfd74e4f63

Lightning: 5.4.0.1

Provider for Google Calendar: 3.3

Comment 1

[[:MakeMyDay]]

Please make sure your calendar is writable and an email identity is associated to it - check the respective calendar properties [1]. Iirc, only the primary calendar would support invitations.

Philipp, does there exist an up-to-date documentation about invitation support for the gdata provider?

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/changing-calendar-preferences

Comment 2

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

There are not many docs about the gdata provider, especially not for this case. Indeed only the primary calendar can be used for accepting invitations. Worcester12345, are you using the primary calendar?

Comment 3

[Worcester12345]

(In reply to Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] from comment #2)
> There are not many docs about the gdata provider, especially not for this
> case. Indeed only the primary calendar can be used for accepting
> invitations. Worcester12345, are you using the primary calendar?

Where is this determined? If you give some guidance, I can get you the answer to that. Still a problem. I've just been manually entering info, as former calendar function is kind of broken.

Thanks.

Comment 4

[Worcester12345]

(In reply to Worcester12345 from comment #3)
> (In reply to Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] from comment #2)
> > There are not many docs about the gdata provider, especially not for this
> > case. Indeed only the primary calendar can be used for accepting
> > invitations. Worcester12345, are you using the primary calendar?
> 
> Where is this determined? If you give some guidance, I can get you the
> answer to that. Still a problem. I've just been manually entering info, as
> former calendar function is kind of broken.
> 
> Thanks.

??

Comment 5

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

The primary calendar is the one that has your name on it, with the id of the calendar being your email address (you can find this in the Google Calendar UI in the settings).

Comment 6

[Marco Brandizi]

Any progress with this? It is obviously a bug, or at least a nonsensical and irritating way to implement this functionality, since, as end user, I don't have any reason to conceive that a "primary calendar" must exist, I just organise my agenda by just logically spreading my events over multiple calendars (which of course I keep on Google or on line, we're in 2019) and I just want to send my invitation to the pertinent calendar.

Comment 7

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

I'm not sure how we can surface this in a better way. The primary calendar is the one originally with your name on it, all extra calendars are secondary. There may be a way to show this in the calendar creation UI. As I'm moving issues to a different bug tracker I'm closing this one, but I have this in mind for a future update.