411973 - If a task is added on the server, Lightning won't update the task view until a calendar event is added too.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: Provider: ICS/WebDAV, defect)

Description

[U. F.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061206 Firefox/1.5.0.9
Build Identifier: 0.7 / pre 0.8

I am using eGroupware that provides a web interface to add tasks and do 
calendar scheduling. It is able to provide a remote calendar.
But I think this has nothing to do with eGroupware.

If I run Thunderbird it loads all tasks and calendar events while start up.
If I use the webinterface of eGroupware, or use another client to add a calendar
event, Lightning updates the calendar view and shows the new event after the configured refresh time.

If I add a task using the webinterface or another client, Lightning never updates the task view. (Not the one in the E-Mail view nor the separate task view that comes with pre 0.8).

Even if I switch to the calendar view and reload the calendar, the task pane is
not showing the new task.

If I manually download the ics file from the URL that is configured in Lightning, I get an updated ics file that contains the task that isn't show by Lightning.

The only (!) way to get the new task shown is to update a calendar event or add an new calendar event in the web interface of eGroupware.

If I'll do so, Lightning is updating the task pane the next time it does the 
calendar refresh interval.

For my understanding the problem is, that if Lightning loads a new list inside the *.ics file it only looks for changes in calendar events and ignores all changed tasks.
(Checking eGroupwares logfiles does actually proof, that Lightning is downloading the new *.ics file in the configured interval.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a netwrok calendar that contains taks & events
2.Start Lightning -> it download all takss
3.Use another application to create a task
Actual Results:  
Task list isn't updated

Expected Results:  
Taks list should show the newly added task.

I belive this isn't a programing bg, it's more a bug in the design.
It should be removed in one of the next releases because it makes the
task list pretty unusable in multiuser environments where user a is assigning
user b a task.

The "workaround" to change a event to update the users tasklist is a NO GO in my eyes.

Comment 1

[Andras Keri]

I would rephrase this error as I believe this is the same I got: instead of SQlite, I use a local .ics file in order to synchronize Calendaring data with a mobile device.

If creating or modifying a task when using a local .ics data storage, the data does not get refreshed automatically.

Steps to reproduce:
1. create a local calendar
2. publish it to local drive
3. load this calendar. Now you got an .ics calendar instead of SQlite provider which gets refreshed automatically if you add an event.
4. Enter a new task or modify an existing one
5. notice that nothing has happened
6. click on Mail icon on the mode toolbar and then back to calendar/tasks and see that the previous changes are now live.

After modifying the data a refresh should be done if a network calendar is used.


Build: 2008012719 (0.8 pre), under Windows XP SP2 and Thunderbird 2.0.9

Comment 2

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

This might be the same issue as reported in Bug 412950.

Comment 3

[Andras Keri]

WORKSFORME. This seems to have been fixed between build 2008012719 and 2008021319.

Comment 4

[Lars Wohlfahrt (thetux)]

Works for me, too => Setting WORKSFORME as status

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