284742 - Allow Multiple Calendar File Selection on New Event or New Task

Status: NEW

(Calendar :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Nicholas Butler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows ; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US;rv1.7.5) Gecko/20041206 Thunderbird/1.0

When Creating or editing new events or tasks for Calendar it would be 
convenient to enable multiple selection of Calendar Files. This process should 
call an iteration for 1 or many selections or calendar files publishing the 
event or task into the required Calendar file.

This process will enable Group meetings to be booked in using the calendar 
files within business environments.

Currently the drop down menu allows single selection of a calendar file.







Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select New Event or Task
2.Create Example event in Dialog box currently opened.
3.Attempt to select multiple Calendar Files using either Shift or Ctrl with 
Click.

Actual Results:  
One calendar file is selected at any time

Expected Results:  
Multiple Selections in the drop down menu.

Whilst not affecting core performance this Bug is a much sort after item 
amongst end users in a business environment.

Comment 1

[Robin Edrenius]

(In reply to comment #0)
> This process will enable Group meetings to be booked in using the calendar 
> files within business environments.
I'm not 100% sure I understand, but isn't this what the new 'Atendees' tab are
for? I.E inviting different people to a meeting or something.

Comment 2

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

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

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Comment 3

[Bas van den Bosch]

@Robin: yes they are... I suggest setting this bug to WONTFIX...

Comment 4

[Dave Oksner]

There are situations where you'd want to at least enter the same thing into two calendars.  Let's say I have a work calendar and a home calendar.  Normally, anything done during the day that's work related would go on the work calendar and anything in the evenings or weekends would go on the home calendar.  My co-workers see when I'm available during the day but don't care that I'm going to the zoo on Saturday with my family.  Likewise, my wife wants to make sure that I have dinner with the inlaws on my calendar, but doesn't care when I have a meeting with my team after lunch on a Tuesday.

But what if I had a work event in the evening, like dinner with clients?  Or what if I have a doctor's appointment during the day.  In those cases, I'd want the events on both calendars so both my work knows about them and my wife knows about them.

Adding them at the same time seems trivial: instead of a drop-down box, you have a combo box (or something else that allows you to have multiple selections), and it creates the event in all selected calendars.  Displaying them shouldn't even be that big of a deal, you just use some special color for "multiple" calendars OR you use as many of the appropriate colors as you can in the display you're using.

The problem starts when you allow any of your calendars to be changed by anyone else.  Let's say my work calendar can be altered by an administrative person--but they can't see my home calendar.  Now the "single" event has two completely separate sets of info.  Should the "other" calendar get updated when possible (eg. when I go to look at my calendar, it notices that this "multi-calendar event" has changed on one of them, and it updates the others)?  Should it split them out into two events, possibly warning the user that this has occurred?  And if they're split, should you be able to re-combine them?

Personally, I'd really like to see this added, in some way, but I understand that the design would take some time.  I've been using ClearSync (used to be called WeSync) to have multiple shared calendars, but that system is a little different--ALL of the calendars reside on a single server and so they have a lot more control.  In the scenario above, when the admin changes an event, even the one they can't see gets changed automatically.  But Calendar can't do that, since it can't rely upon the servers for the two calendars being related in any way.

And just a note, I think bug 402619 can be marked as a dupe of this one.

Comment 6

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

This request is similar to what is wanted in bug 274967. I know this bug is about only specific events, but to make sure the events are in sync, we probably need the infrastructure in bug 274967.

The conflict issue really makes this bug complicated, maybe not in technical terms but also in terms of usablility. We don't want to annoy the user with too many dialogs, and its hard to set a sensible default here.

Confirming this bug for now since its a reasonable request, but I doubt this will be fixed in the near future.

Comment 8

[vinod kumar]

Hi all,

This is a really important or good feature to have. The use case is as below

a) I have a work calendar which is based on SOGO and behind a firewall. Outside work i can only access the work calendar via openvpn

b) To access the same calendar from an android tablet, i will have to root it as thats the only way to get OPEN vpn working on Android


So the only way i can achieve this is the book every event to both my work calendar / google.

Is there a way this can be considered again for development