367476 - Outlook iMIP event does not get properly added to calendar

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: E-mail based Scheduling (iTIP/iMIP), defect)

Description

[Colin McMillan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: 1.5.0.9 (20061207) Lightening 0.3

Installed Lightning for the first time.  

I received an invitation from Outlook.  Lightning correctly identifies it and asks if I want to Add to Calender.  When I click the button an entry is made in the calendar as expected.

After adding the appointment, I can't view any details for it.  When I right click and Edit the event, the edit screen is empty (i.e. there is no data in any of the form elements).

If I close Thunderbird and relaunch it, the event is gone.  It hasn't been permanently saved.

Also, when I right-click a time in the calendar and choose New Task, nothing happens.  Similarly when I go to File -> New -> Event (or Task) nothing happens.


Invitation source follows:
==========================
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 11.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:REQUEST
BEGIN:VEVENT
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;RSVP=TRUE:MAILTO:colin@_emailprotected_.com
ORGANIZER:MAILTO:kevin@_emailprotected_.com
DTSTART:20070119T123000Z
DTEND:20070119T130000Z
TRANSP:OPAQUE
SEQUENCE:0
UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000000505B052BB13BC7010000000000000000100
 00000E7E7985AD0C5A64D9DBE85B72627529B
DTSTAMP:20070119T100412Z
DESCRIPTION:When: 19 January 2007 12:30-13:00 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time :
  Dublin\, Edinburgh\, Lisbon\, London.\n\n*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*\n\n\n
SUMMARY:Email - 
PRIORITY:5
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1
CLASS:PUBLIC
BEGIN:VALARM
TRIGGER:-PT15M
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Reminder
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Find invitation, click "Add to Calendar"
2.Find event in calendar, right click and choose Edit.  No info is displayed
3.Restart Thunderbird.  Event is gone.
4.Try to create a new event or task manually.  No window appears.
Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Saved the event and allowed me to create a new one.

Had quite a sever "Egg Timer" moment while clicking around the calendar too.  Resolved itself after a minute or so.

Comment 1

[cmtalbert]

Confirmed.  Thunderbird version 2 beta 2 (20070208) Lightning: 2007012205 (0.4a1)

Mac OS X 10.4.8

Reproduced it on my system.  Will try with latest iTIP/iMIP patch to see if that might fix the issue. So, I'm also taking this one.

Comment 2

[Sebastian Schwieger]

This works for me using Thunderbird version 2.0.0.0pre (20070417) and Lightning 2007041704, Windows XP

Comment 3

[Pete Riley]

This also works for me with
   Outlook 2007
   Lightning 0.7pre 2007-07-27 04
   TB 2.0.0.5

However:

1) For whatever dumb reason, Outlook 2007 adds a bunch of extra information to the Description field of its iMIP requests:  <When> + <Timezone> + <Where> + <Description>.
Since Outlook is such a dominant client in the world, please consider fixing their nonsense so that we see only the description in the Description field in our Lightning calendars.

2) When I accept the invite and send the iMIP response back to Outlook 2007, it doesn't recognize it (perhaps because of the same reasons as bug 377761).

Comment 4

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

(In reply to comment #3)

Colin, does it also works for you when using a Lightning 0.7pre nightly build?

Pete, I'd recommend to file a new enhancement bug for each of your requests but please search for existing bugs first. This bug is not the appropriate location for it.

Comment 5

[Colin McMillan]

Currently seems to be working well with Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 and Lightening 0.5.

Thanks for your efforts!

Comment 6

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Resolving as WORKSFORME per Comment #2, Comment #3 and Comment #5.