209687 - Unable to transfer events from one imported calendar (or any calendar to another)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 220655

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Daryl Manning]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030509
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030509

Trying to edit an event in a calendar. Calendar bar at bottom of dialogue is
greyed out and you are unable to transfer event to another calendar.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Edit event
2. Calendar drop down is greyed out
3. Press it to try and transfer event to another calendar

Actual Results:  
nothing. was unable to transfer.

Expected Results:  
Should have allowed the calendar drop down box to drop down list of other
calendars, allowed selection of one of them and then transferred event to
another calendar.

using 12 June 2003 version of Calendar component with colours on.
also have enigmail installed.

Comment 1

[Steve Howatt]

If I had permissions, I would confirm this.  The loadCalendarEventDialog()
function in eventDialog.js shows that this feature has been (temporarily) disabled:

//for now you can't edit which file the event is in.
setFieldValue( "server-field", "true", "disabled" );

Also, should this be OS=All?  I'm running Windows XP.

Comment 2

[Mike Potter]

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Comment 3

[Trevor Vaughan]

I have also run into this problem. It makes it very difficult to reliably manage
your schedule especially when you go through the steps of creating a complex
appointment sequence and realize that you've saved it to the wrong calendar.

I attempted to work around the problem by doing the following without the
expected results:

1. Create appointment in calendar 'A'
2. Cut appointment from main calendar window
3. Deselect calendar 'A' from Calendars Tab
4. Select calendar 'B' from Calendars Tab
5. Paste appointment into main calendar window

I expected the program to paste the appointment into the currently viewed
calendar iff that is the only calendar viewed.  Otherwise, I would expect the
program to request a selection of the calendar to paste the appointment into.

I'm currently using Sunbird 0.2a but have tried this on previous versions of the
native calendar as well.

Comment 4

[Mike]

*** Bug 271155 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Tom Kellen]

I can confirm that this bug is present on Windows XP and is always 
reproducable.  This is a feature that I have a major need for so I am hoping 
that it will not be difficult to fix.

Using Sunbird rc2

Comment 6

[Keith Bonawitz]

Stilling seeing this bug in Sunbird 0.2 on WinXP.

Comment 7

[Joey Minta]

*** Bug 210369 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Manta]

I am able to move an event from one calendar to another:

1. Create event manually in calendar A
2. Select newly created event
3. CTRL-X cut
4. Select Calendar B in Calendars list
5. CTRL-V paste

Using Sunbird 0.2 on XP: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20050203 Mozilla Sunbird/0.2

Comment 9

[Keith Bonawitz]

(In reply to comment #8)
> I am able to move an event from one calendar to another:
> 
> 1. Create event manually in calendar A
> 2. Select newly created event
> 3. CTRL-X cut
> 4. Select Calendar B in Calendars list
> 5. CTRL-V paste
> 
> Using Sunbird 0.2 on XP: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
> rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20050203 Mozilla Sunbird/0.2

This workaround is quite limited until Bug 199422 is resolved, because that bug
causes the starting and ending times of the event to be lost on cut+paste. 
(Manta: you might not have seen this behavior if you used the default start+end
time when you tested moving your event.)

I would also say that cut+paste method is a workaround rather than a solution
(or perhaps more accurately, it is only a partial solution).  I think the user
still expects to be able to use the combo in the "Edit Event" dialog to move an
event from one calendar to another.

Comment 10

[Joey Minta]

Fixed in bug 220655.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 220655 ***

Comment 11

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

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