360791 - Lightning - New Event meeting - It Doesn't send the meeting to attendees

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 374757

(Calendar :: Lightning Only, enhancement)

Description

[ajuarez]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; es-ES; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Firefox/1.5.0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; es-ES; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Firefox/1.5.0.8; Lightning 0.3; Thunderbird/1.5.0.8;

Lightning 0.3; Thunderbird/1.5.0.8;

When I start a New Event in order to organise a meeting, it is added to the calendar but my attendees doesn´t recive the invitation.

In "New Event" window it only displays "Event" at the right up corner.

Note: iCalendar enables attach the event to an email (right click and "send selected events" ) and all the attendees revice the invitation. They can add it to theirs calendars. But this option doesn't apear in Lightning.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right- Click over Lightning Calendar ->  New Event
2. Fill the fields (Title, Form Date, To Date ... Attendees([e-mail]) )
3. Click to acept event and it is addeded to calendar but my attendees doesn´t recibe the email to the meeteng.



Expected Results:  
At least the Lightning behavior works like iCalendar when it "send selected events" by email.

Comment 1

[Bas van den Bosch]

bug 374757 supporting itip landed a couple of days ago... This will be in the 0.5 release any time now... you can also download a nightly build...

Comment 2

[Pete Riley]

Lightning doesn't email invitations for me either.  In addition to the OP's report, there was a third report in bug 374757 comment 18.

I'm using Lightning 0.5pre (build 2007041004), Thunderbird 2 beta 2 (build 20070116), and WinXP sp2.  It doesn't work for my remote .ics calendar (WebDAV) or a local calendar.  Is this feature only available for calendars on WCAP servers?  I hope that that's not true.

I've tried it with the old event dialog and with the new one from Sun (using user_pref("calendar.prototypes.wcap", "false"); and it also didn't send invites when set to "true").  It doesn't work when creating a new event or after editing an existing event.

By the way, the Sun event dialog doesn't have a checkbox to control:  "Send Attendees Invitations via Email" as per bug 374757.  The checkbox is there in the old event dialog, but even though it was enabled, no invite was sent from there either.

It didn't help when I disabled all Thunderbird Addons except for Lightning, nor did it matter if the attendee was me or someone else.

Comment 3

[Pete Riley]

And there are no errors in the error console.

Comment 4

[Pete Riley]

As Stefan said in bug 374757:
> This bug is about adding a checkbox to event dialog to _not_
> send invitations. If you want to send invitations and it is not
> working file a new bug and add your information in the new bug please.

This is the new bug.  I don't believe that it's a duplicate of bug 374757.  Please re-open this bug.

Also, I believe that this bug should be marked as "Normal" instead of "Enhancement".  Thanks.

Comment 5

[Pete Riley]

After more hours of research, I've determined that I actually had two problems: one with the old event dialog (problem solved) and one with the new dialog from Sun (problem is probably due to my misunderstanding).

I traced the problem with the old event dialog to bug 374759.  I use a Thunderbird extension called "Folderpane Tools".  It allows people to sort the accounts in the folder pane so that "Local Folders" appears before the RSS accounts.  To do that trick the extension makes "Local Folders" the default account instead of using an actual mail account for the default.  While Thunderbird has no problem with that, Lightning complains in the Error Console that it could not find the Default Identity.  Unfortunately I will have to stop using the extension for this purpose in order to make Lightning work, but at least this is a workaround.

The second problem is with the new Sun event dialog.  After I click "Save and Close", Lightning adds the entry to the calendar but does not open a composition window to send the email.  I tried this in a clean install and with the following pref: user_pref("calendar.prototypes.wcap", true);.  The Sun dialog works in all respects except that it doesn't open the composition window.  There are no JS errors.  I installed the regular Lightning .xpi, not the one with WCAP in it.

Unfortunately I'm now thinking that this second problem might be because of a misunderstanding on my part, and I apologize if that's true.  I've just discovered
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.calendar/msg/e9d111be964d343e
in which Dan Mosedale wrote, "The WCAP extension is currently
planned to enable both the WCAP provider and a prototype event dialog
developed specifically for use with that provider."

I really like the new Sun event dialog and I hope that it will eventually be available for all providers, not just WCAP.

At this point I'd say that there is no bug and no need to re-open this bug report.  I decided to post these final comments to the bug in case other users like me have the same questions and experiences with Lightning 0.5.

Comment 6

[Michael Büttner (no reviews TFN)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I really like the new Sun event dialog and I hope that it will eventually be
> available for all providers, not just WCAP.
Just to clarify this misunderstanding. The Sun Event Dialog has absolutely nothing to do with WCAP, it doesn't rely on any specific provider. It is a general replacement for the current standard event dialog and will be enabled as default as soon as the 0.5 release is out of the door. This is to find any outstanding problems, such as this strikes me as being one of them. Please feel free to file a bug on any such problems you might encounter. This particular problem might be related to the "send email invitation"-checkbox that has been added to the standard event dialog lately, any inconsistencies are definitely a bug, nothing else. Again, the Sun Event Dialog is meant as a general replacement , and has absolutely nothing to do with WCAP.

Comment 7

[cmtalbert]

(In reply to comment #5)
Pete, thanks for the research you've done to get to the bottom of this issue.  The "default identity" issue is high on my list of things to fix once 0.5 ships.  I have also created a new bug 377403 to track the problem with sending invitations using the Prototype (Sun) Event Dialog.

Comment 8

[Pete Riley]

Michael & Clint, thanks for the good news and for filing the new bug.  I'll test it as soon as it's in the nightlies.