404366 - Lightning shows a blank calendar when it is unable to connect to the calendar server

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: Provider: WCAP, defect)

Description

[Robert Chien]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/419.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
Build Identifier: 0.7

In the event that the calendar server is unavailable, Lightning shows a blank calendar, instead of a warning or error message. This could mislead the enduser.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Shutdown calendar server
2. Launch Lightning.
Actual Results:  
Blank calendar shows.

Expected Results:  
Display a warning message (e.g.  "Unable to connect to https://cal.domain.com/")

Comment 1

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

This is basically the same as Bug 347807 I think

Comment 2

[Ulf Stroehler]

WFM.
In case of a server being unavailable the following error message is thrown:

"There has been an error reading data for calendar: $CALENDARNAME.
Error Number: 0x804a0201
Description: Can not access server $HOSTNAME!"

Comment 3

[Robert Chien]

Is there a timeout before error is thrown? I ask because during last calendar outage, many of us reported seeing blank calendars instead of an error.

Comment 4

[Daniel Boelzle [:dbo]]

Reporter, please reopen if it doesn't work for you.