463998 - In lightning, Calendar/Properties, in "E-Mail" I cannot associate the calendar to a new email address, other than my own email address

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 205659

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

Description

[andersk]

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Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.17 (20080914)

There are a number of persons in my work group, say. I have their calendars visible, loaded via webdav (or Funambol synchronization). Opening up one of the calendar's properties there is a field "E-Mail". I would like to associate the calendar to the person's email address. But the only email addresses I can assign to is given in the combo, namely my own email addresses (from the accounts in thunderbird, perhaps?). 

When I open New Event-> Invite Attendees I would like the email address to automatically load the calendar associated with that email address.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In lightning, right click on Calendar -> Properties
2. Try to change E-Mail to someone in your address book, for instance


Expected Results:  
I would like to associate a calendar with an arbitrary email address, presumably from my address book

Maybe there is another way this is supposed to be used? How can I associate calendars with different people?

Comment 1

[Daniel Boelzle [:dbo]]

That's not the purpose of that property. It's the email identity used for sending out iMIP.
We don't support delegation yet, i.e. you cannot act on behalf of someone else.
I know we already have a iTIP delegation bug, thus think this is INVALID or a dupe.

Comment 2

[andersk]

No, this is not delegation. I am not acting on behalf of someone else.

This is only that I want to *see* other person's calendars, and associate them - in my lightning - with an email address. How else is free/busy suppose to work in invite attendees?

Comment 3

[andersk]

Maybe I should add a bug/request explaining this for Invite Attendees instead. The problem is still that one needs to associate a calendar with a person, which has nothing to do with delegation.

Comment 4

[Daniel Boelzle [:dbo]]

If I understand you correctly, you want to create an event with a different organizerId than your configured email identities, right?

Comment 5

[Pete Riley]

(In reply to comment #2)
> This is only that I want to *see* other person's calendars, and associate them
> - in my lightning - with an email address. How else is free/busy suppose to
> work in invite attendees?

I think that maybe [e-mail] is using ICS calendars (or some provider that doesn't directly support free/busy info) and is trying to use the attendee's email address as a primary key...  When an organizer types the attendee's email address in the Invite Attendees dialog he wants Lightning to get the free/busy info from the attendee's calendar in his calendar list.

Perhaps this is the same as bug 205659 ("Publish/Retrieve freebusy aggregate calendar/file (.ifb/.vfb)").  However, I think that bug wants to use the attendee's email address to find the contact in the Thunderbird address book which will contain a URL to his calendar or free/busy file.  I think that's better because then the organizer doesn't have to subscribe to every attendee's calendar.

Comment 6

[Pete Riley]

By the way, perhaps it would be more clear if the label in the calendar properties said "Organizer" instead of "Email".

Comment 7

[Daniel Boelzle [:dbo]]

No, it's the email identity that is used for sending iMIP (mail-based iTIP). The organizer id of storage/ics calendars is currently derived out of it, but this need not be the case.

Comment 8

[andersk]

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > This is only that I want to *see* other person's calendars, and associate them
> > - in my lightning - with an email address. How else is free/busy suppose to
> > work in invite attendees?
> 
> I think that maybe [e-mail] is using ICS calendars (or some provider
> that doesn't directly support free/busy info) and is trying to use the
> attendee's email address as a primary key...  When an organizer types the
> attendee's email address in the Invite Attendees dialog he wants Lightning to
> get the free/busy info from the attendee's calendar in his calendar list.

Yes, that's it! I have the the calendar, either through ics-file on webdav or synchronization with Funambol plug-in. That is sufficient statistics to provide free/busy information.... So this is exactly what I am looking for. Thanks for translating...


> 
> Perhaps this is the same as bug 205659 ("Publish/Retrieve freebusy aggregate
> calendar/file (.ifb/.vfb)").  However, I think that bug wants to use the
> attendee's email address to find the contact in the Thunderbird address book
> which will contain a URL to his calendar or free/busy file.  I think that's
> better because then the organizer doesn't have to subscribe to every attendee's
> calendar.

Indeed, that will work, too. That would often be the best solution. Here, if I have the calendars of my work group I might want to use that. But this solution would work, too.

Comment 9

[Daniel Boelzle [:dbo]]

So this is a dupe to bug 205659?