217780 - all tasks dissapear after I add a new event

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 215375

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Kris Hofmans]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

No matter what task I add, the options I use, they all dissapear after I add a
new event on the calendar.

I am using Apache 2.0.47 with mod_dav to store it on a local webserver on the
network.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. add a new task
2. add a new event
Actual Results:  
the tasks dissapear and is lost forever.

Expected Results:  
It would keep the tasks and add the events.

I am using webdav on apache as a primitive calendar server.

Comment 1

[Randy Gobbel]

I've just tripped over this one.  I notice that it doesn't happen 100% of the
time (i.e., just entered an event, and my task is still there).  Still not sure
of the necessary/sufficient conditions for this lossage, but it sure is nasty
when it happens.  I have only seen this on remote calendars.

Comment 2

[Randy Gobbel]

I've come up with a partial fix for this.  In calendar.js, addToDoDialogResponse
and modifyToDoDialogResponse need to call refreshRemoteCalendarAndRunFunction,
rather than just directly calling the gIcalLib functions.  In unifinderToDo.js,
deleteToDoCommand also needs to do something to support the auto-publish
feature.  It needs to do something for the multiple-task case, as well as for
single tasks.

Note: the auto-publish feature is also broken with respect to deletion of
multiple events.  If you delete multiple events, no attempt is made to sync up
the local file with the server.  If I can't find an existing bug report for this
problem, I'll submit one.

After seeing the number of problems with auto-publish that I came across in
chasing down this one bug, I think somebody needs to do a comprehensive review
of the implementation of this feature, because it seems pretty seriously broken.
 Some of the bugs involved with the auto-publish feature can cause you to lose
your entire calendar file, as has happened to me a couple of times.

Comment 3

[Mostafa Hosseini]

-Main description is a dupe of bug 215375.
-Not being %100 reproducable was because of bug 200012
-The issue mentioned in comment #3 has been logged as bug 228745
Finally it is true that auto-publishing has a lot of problems. A lot of bugs are
currently pointing to them and some more need to be logged.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 215375 ***

Comment 4

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

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