1020355 - Event invitations accepted through email cannot be added or changed to Google calendar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 493389

(Calendar :: E-mail based Scheduling (iTIP/iMIP), defect)

Description

[Herm]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140506152807

Steps to reproduce:

When accepting invitations or events through email messages, event or reminder is automatically set to local calendar and cannot be edited to use Google calendar.


Actual results:

Message is created on local calendar and cannot be edited


Expected results:

Option to use Google Calendar or ability to edit to change from local to Google calendar.

Comment 1

[[:MakeMyDay]]

What version of Thunderbird and Lightning do you use? Do you use the Google Calendar provider or CalDAV to access the Google calendar?

Is the Google calendar writable and what organizer id's are assigned to local and Google calendar (in the respective calendar properties)?

Comment 2

[Herm]

Using Thunderbird 32 although issue has existed for the past several versions.  Filed a bug report since it has not yet been addressed.  Using Google Calendar Provider.  I can create new events and have them post to a Google calendar, but if I accept an invitation, I cannot accept it to a Google calendar or subsequently change it from a local to Google event.  I had previously used CalDAV, but I don't believe this works any longer due to changes implemented by Google.

I'm not certain what you are calling "organizer id's".  Please clarify and I will provide.

Comment 3

[[:MakeMyDay]]

Please state also which version of Lightning and Google calendar provider you use.

The organizer id is the email address assocciated to the calendar (-> calendar view -> calendar list -> right click on the calendar in question -> properties).

Comment 4

[[:MakeMyDay]]

Please also check the error log for related entries when reproducing the issue. You can access it by pressing <strg> + <shift> + <j>.

Comment 5

[[:MakeMyDay]]

Maybe this is a duplicate of bug 926970 - can you please check this?

Comment 6

[Herm]

Not a duplicate of this bug.  Tried sending a calendar invitation from gmail to my work account.  Invitation was received and accepted; however, it was not possible to save to my google calendar and event cannot be edited to change the calendar location as can be done with events created within Thunderbird/Lightning/Google Calendar Provider.  Also, when accepting notification, I receive a failure message.  Not certain if a confirming email was sent (my guess is that it was, but couldn't be saved).

These error messages appear to be related to the issue:

Timestamp: 06/09/2014 4:01:40 PM
Warning: Use of getAttributeNodeNS() is deprecated. Use getAttributeNS() instead.
Source File: resource://calendar/modules/calXMLUtils.jsm
Line: 32

Timestamp: 06/09/2014 4:04:40 PM
Warning: Use of getAttributeNodeNS() is deprecated. Use getAttributeNS() instead.
Source File: resource://calendar/modules/calXMLUtils.jsm
Line: 32

Timestamp: 06/09/2014 4:07:40 PM
Warning: Use of getAttributeNodeNS() is deprecated. Use getAttributeNS() instead.
Source File: resource://calendar/modules/calXMLUtils.jsm
Line: 32

Timestamp: 06/09/2014 4:07:55 PM
Warning: Use of getAttributeNodeNS() is deprecated. Use getAttributeNS() instead.
Source File: resource://calendar/modules/calXMLUtils.jsm
Line: 32

Timestamp: 06/09/2014 4:07:55 PM
Warning: Use of getAttributeNodeNS() is deprecated. Use getAttributeNS() instead.
Source File: resource://calendar/modules/calXMLUtils.jsm
Line: 32

Timestamp: 06/09/2014 4:07:55 PM
Warning: Use of getAttributeNodeNS() is deprecated. Use getAttributeNS() instead.
Source File: resource://calendar/modules/calXMLUtils.jsm
Line: 32

Timestamp: 06/09/2014 4:10:40 PM
Warning: Use of getAttributeNodeNS() is deprecated. Use getAttributeNS() instead.
Source File: resource://calendar/modules/calXMLUtils.jsm
Line: 32

Comment 7

[[:MakeMyDay]]

I'm not sure whether these messages are related to the issue.

@Phillip: is the limitation of the Google Calendar Provider described at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:GDATA_Provider#Attendees still existing?

Comment 8

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

Using the Provider for Google Calendar release version, I believe the limitation is still in place. This might be different with the new provider version found in bug 493389. Please test that provider version and use the support template there if the issue still exists. I'd suggest duplicating this bug against that one if it works.

Comment 9

[Herm]

Phillip, Are you suggesting to replace gdata-provider-0.34pre.en-US.win32.xpi  with gdata-provider-tasks-v4.xpi to address saving invitations to a google rather than local calendar?

Comment 10

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

Yes, its worth a try. If it doesn't work, please use the support comment template I've provided in that bug and let me know exactly what is not working.

Comment 11

[Herm]

Installed gdata-provider-tasks-v4.xpi this morning and tried accepting a new invitation.  Invitation is automatically accepted to local calendar and cannot be edited or moved to Google calendar.  It can be converted to a task for a Google calendar, but not an event.

Also, receive a failure message when attempting to send notifications.  I believe this may be related to bug 1020351.

Comment 12

[[:MakeMyDay]]

Maybe this is related to the problem in bug 938455, the patch did'nt address the potential issues of similar occurences mentioned in comments 3 and 6.

Comment 13

[Herm]

Please let me know if there is any additional information that I can provide.  It does not appear this bug has been addressed.

Comment 14

[[:MakeMyDay]]

Did you reported this as requested in comment #10?

Comment 15

[Herm]

I have now posted in  bug 493389.

Comment 16

[[:MakeMyDay]]

Marking duplicate as tracking for this moved to bug 493389 as per comment #15.