462109 - Convert eMail to event/task -> Recipient should not added to the attendees list

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

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

Description

[Andreas Treumann]

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
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- convert an eMail to event/task
 
RESULT:
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- the recipient is added to the attendees list, but this makes no sense. If the recipient a mail alias all people gets an eMail with an ics-attechment, but it was only my decision to convert this eMail to an event. In this case the converter is the organizer of this event and not the creator of the eMail.

EXPECTED RESULT:
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- converting an eMail should not add the recipient to the attendees list.

REPRODUCIBLE:
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- always

Comment 1

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Same as Bug 460750?

Comment 3

[Daniel Boelzle [:dbo]]

Attachment: fix - v1

Comment 4

[Berend Cornelius]

Comment on attachment 350170 [details] [diff] [review]
fix - v1

At first I did not understand why no attendees should be added to the list and discussed this over with Daniel but he persuaded me that this is more likely what the people want to get when doing a conversion.
As we are not yet available to set up "published events" maybe it will make sense to keep the function "addAttendees()" for later use but that's up to Daniel.
r=berend

Comment 5

[Daniel Boelzle [:dbo]]

I don't like unused code; we could recycle it from hg once we need it.

Pushed to comm-central <http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/0f85d87451f0>

-> FIXED

Comment 6

[Andreas Treumann]

Checked in lightning build 20081209 -> VERIFIED.

Comment 8

[peutch]

OK, but is there any way to default it to unchecked? Because if one doesn't pay attention (this has happened to me), then every one receives the invite.

Comment 10

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

These bugs are likely targeted at Lightning 1.0b1, not Lightning 1.0. If this change was done in error, please adjust the target milestone to its correct value. To filter on this bugspam, you can use "lightning-10-target-move".

Comment 11

[silent_thunderbird]

unfortunately, this is such a time waste, that this "bug" previously removed in v1, really should be added back. here is the rational..........

in the latest version of Thunderbird v68.10.0 (32-bit) on any platform that I have checked, and with the latest version of the calendar plugin Lightening v68.10.0 when you go to File --> Convert To --> Event all of the body of the email is placed in the Description field. Great. The title of the email is put into the Title field. Great. BUT where NONE of the people from the email ( and there could be 5 or 10 or 1 ) are not moved into the "Attendees" tab of the new event.

This then requires you to go to the Attendees tab, right click, and add, BY MEMORY, all of the people FROM the email that you have converted to this new event. If you can't remember them all, you have to hit Ok in the add attendee dialog box, go back to the tab where the message is, copy the people that you want one by one, go BACK to the event tab, BACK to the "attendees" tab, right click, etc., and this can ( in the case of say 5 people who the email was sent to ) take up to 15 mins or more to do. This therefore is a bug / a terrible UI/UX process and needs to be fixed as a bug ? I figured I'd post this here before I create a formal bug fix for this? I'm assuming that everyone else using Lightening is also experiencing this as well yes ?

If an email ( or an email response from someone ) needs to be converted / scheduled as a meeting, it should be a VERY streamlined process - one right click set a date and time and you are ready to go yes ? Hopefully this "bug" can be fixed very very quickly.

What's the next best steps here?
and more specifically.....

Considering the INCREDIBLE time effort necessary to create meetings in Lightening ( and specifically from an email of people you have been discussing things with ) how can we get this functionality back in the new version of lightening & Thunderbird ?

Let me be very specific. If a Thunderbird user ( like you or me ) gets an email from someone with say, 5 people on that email chain and a meeting is necessary, this means:

• you have to double click the message,
• keep it open in a new window so to see who that email that you want to invite,
• then click ( write ---> event ( or ) File ---> new ---> event )
• type in a title, put all the details into the body of the meeting
• go to attendees tab, right click, type in the peoples names by hand from the open email
• check carefully to make sure you got everyone and you didn't add in anyone with a similar email address
• hit send.

Even if you are the fastest typist and make NO mistakes that's 15min per meeting that you want to create because you have to deal with your contact list, trying in the right persons name / email address to send the invite to, etc., and with an email inbox jammed with piles of emails for meetings that have to be made, this is far too long a process.

Solution: right click on message ---> convert to ---> meeting ---> for everyone ( or ) add attendees and with the add attendees option, no one from the original message is automatically added to the new event.

I hope there is a way to get this functionality back, because to be honest, creating meetings and using Lightening is part of life and the process above is FAR too cumbersome to the point where Thunderbird / Lightening users are probably wasting hours where they shouldn't.

Sound possible ?