391245 - Task function not working

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 493389

(Calendar :: Provider: GData, defect)

Description

[Peter Koval]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.6 (20070728)

Tasks are entered in correctly but don't show up in View or in todo listing.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter task via Enter Task button
2. Click OK
3. 
Actual Results:  
No Task in View or in Todo listing.

Expected Results:  
Task should show up in View or in Todo list.

Comment 1

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Are you using Sunbird or Lightning? What version? What type of calendar do you use? Do you see any error message in the Error Console?

Comment 2

[Peter Koval]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Are you using Sunbird or Lightning? What version? What type of calendar do you
> use? Do you see any error message in the Error Console?
> 

I am using the most current version of Lightning/Thunderbird.
There is no error message.  The task simply doesn't appear.  Entered all the task info correctly numerous times.  Just never shows anywhere.

Comment 3

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Repeating myself: What type of calendar do you use?

Do you use a Google Calendar with the Provider for Google Calendar extension? Because Google doesn't support tasks in Google Calendar there is no way to store tasks created with Lightning in Google Calendar.

Comment 4

[Peter Koval]

Ah.   Yes I'm using Lightning, and I have Google calendar extension.

I just thought that the Tasks, since through Lightning, would be saved via Lightning and not Google.  I didn't need Google to save the tasks, but would have been nice for Lightning to save the tasks.

I'll try to set the Task through a non-google calendar to see if that solves it.
Thanks.

Comment 5

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

(In reply to comment #4)
Moving to Provider: GData

Comment 6

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

(In reply to comment #4)
From the extension homepage: 
Q: "Why can't I create tasks on a Google Calendar?" A: "Google doesn't support Tasks, so there is no way the provider can support them."

-> INVALID

(Maybe a future extension version will offer this feature, see Bug 391063)