323666 - Open / Import calendar file

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[kbovi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

1) If I try to open an calendar-file (CTRL+O), nothing happens.

2) I have downloaded several *.ics files. Trying to import such a file, an error occurs (x items failed to imort. The last error was: 2147500037)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. import a ics-file

Comment 1

[Joey Minta]

1) has been fixed.  (2) is often caused by trying to import items that have previously been imported.  More information would be needed about your calendar+events to diagnose that properly.  Try using a nightly build with a clean profile and I bet you'll have much more success.

Comment 2

[kbovi]

I tried to open two of the files with holidays 

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/caldata/BelgianHolidays.ics

and

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/caldata/GermanHolidays.ics

The second one cannot be imported

Comment 3

[Joey Minta]

(In reply to comment #2)
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/caldata/GermanHolidays.ics
> 
> The second one cannot be imported
> 

There are some events in there that also have a problem (no end date) that has since been fixed, which is why it'd be much more helpful if you could try a nightly build.

Comment 4

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

It's not a problem with Sunbird; the problem is that you have events with the same UID in both files. But the UID has to be unique. Example:

BelgianHolidays.ics:
  BEGIN:VEVENT
  UID:906774672    <-- here
  SUMMARY:Pasen

GermanHolidays.ics:
  BEGIN:VEVENT
  UID:906774672    <-- here
  SUMMARY:Ostersonntag

Comment 5

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

It might be worth filing another bug to add some UI to allow the user to choose how to deal with events with conflicting UUIDs.

Comment 6

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> It's not a problem with Sunbird; the problem is that you have events with the
> same UID in both files.

Marking WORKSFORME.

(In reply to comment #5)
> It might be worth filing another bug to add some UI to allow the user to choose
> how to deal with events with conflicting UUIDs.

Bug 325449 was filed for this issue.