261460 - Import events via commandline

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Matt Keller]

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Wouldn't it be nice to import a calendar event via:

> sunbird -remote 'openFile(new_event.ics)'

This would allow invoking of Sunbird's Import function from .mailcap entries!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Reassigning all automatically assigned bugs from Mostafa to nobody@m.o

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Comment 2

[Joey Minta]

I *think* this has been covered in bug 177109.  You can do -subscribe and the ics file will be subscribed to.  Actual import into an existing calendar seems a lot harder, since external apps don't really know what calendars are around.  Duplicate?

Comment 3

[Richard Greenwood]

I don't think it's a duplicate.  The intent of the request in this bug is to be able to add new events from an ics file via the command line.  This is useful when you are using a mail program that can call external applications on attachments.  

For example, if I get an ics attachment from an Exchange user, I have to save it to a file, then go through the import dialog in sunbird and navigate to that file to import it.  It would be much easier if I could double-click on the attachment and have it automatically have sunbird bring up the import dialog automatically.  Does that make sense?

Comment 4

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

This bug is not completely the same as bug 212792. Here we want to see the import dialog automatically. Confirming per decision on QA working session.

Comment 5

[Sebastian Schwieger]

Attachment: import via command line - work in progress

This patch introduces a -import command line flag and a -dest-cal command line flag. Both are optional, of course. Atm, only local files can be imported. The -dest-cal flag takes an integer starting from zero (0) indicating what calendar to import into. If not present, the choose calendar dialog comes up. Before I clean this patch out (instead of a local file any URI could be accepted) I would like to hear opinions, if this is the way to go.

Comment 6

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

The commandline handler needs a real makeover. I'm going to do so in bug 359807 after 0.8 is out.

Comment 7

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

Sebo, please change the status to NEW if you no longer work on this issue. Thanks.

Comment 9

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I think this is resolved by bug 357480 and follow-ups.