405371 - Categories lost on ICS file import

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 316927

(Calendar :: Import and Export, defect)

Description

[David Taber]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9
Build Identifier: lightning 0.7 on Thunderbird 2.0.x with Penelope 0.21a (Eudora 8a)

Lightning/Tbird running fine on my system.
Import ICS file with categories set for most events.  Although categories pre-existed in Lightning, none of the category attributes survived the import.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Lightning, configure it with categories
2. Import ICS file with category flags set for many events
3.
Actual Results:  
Category flags do not make it into the Lightning calendar via import

Expected Results:  
Import works and properly sets category flags for all meetings.

Windows XP-SP2 with all the latest stuff.  Thinkpad hardware.

Comment 1

[Omar Bajraszewski]

You have to create the same categories to see them again.

Comment 2

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Importing events with a category attached will not add them automatically to the categories list in Lightning/Sunbird preferences.

But the category should be still set on the imported events. Please edit some sample events to check if the category is still set.

Comment 3

[David Taber]

I didn't communicate clearly.  
I pre-created the list of categories in Lightning, using the preferences editor.
I spelled all the categories the same as the categories that I knew would be coming in via import.
When the import was done, none of the category attributes were attached to any of the appointments (using the editor in Lightning, they *could be* set after import, but they weren't properly set during the import process).

Comment 4

[Omar Bajraszewski]

WFM with Tb 2.0.0.9+Lt 0.7+ Penelope 0.1a22 and also with Lt 0.8pre 2008012609
I pre-created the same categories that are included in ics.

Comment 5

[Günter]

LG 0.8 / TB Version 2.0.0.12 (20080213)
Current version accepts "Category" item per event/task. But if the ICS file contains multiple "Category" items (as defined with rfc2445 -- comma separated values) only the last one is hold with the event/task. The other ones are LOST!!

This limits the compatiblity with other rfc2445 compliant calendar apps.

Comment 6

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

While the other bug is an enhancement, it is indeed the same problem and should be fixed together. I'm adding notes accordingly on the other bug.