489162 - No accept/ decline button for invitations with GCal

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Kris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090418 Minefield/3.6a1pre GTB5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4pre) Gecko/20090406 Lightning/1.0pre Shredder/3.0b3pre ThunderBrowse/3.2.4 ID:20090406100750

I sent myself (via Shredder) an invitation to an event. There are no accept/decline buttons in order to accept/decline invitation. I am using trunk from Lightning from 20090420.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send myself an invitation in Shredder
2. Receive email
3. No accept/decline button
Actual Results:  
There are no accept/decline buttons in order to accept/decline invitation. 

Expected Results:  
To see accept/decline buttons.

Comment 1

[Jie Zhang]

I have the same issue for thunderbird3 rc2. I built it myself on a Debian AMD64 unstable machine.

Comment 2

[Jie Zhang]

I also got this error when I run thunderbird3 rc2 with lightning addon. I don't know if it's related with this bug:

An error was encountered preparing the calendar located at moz-profile-calendar:// for use. It will not be available.

Details
Error code: 0x80004005
Description: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [mozIStorageStatement.reset]"  nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: file:///home/jie/installs/thunderbird/extensions/%7Be2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103%7D/modules/calStorageUpgrade.jsm :: ensureUpdatedTimezones :: line 380"  data: no]

Comment 3

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

Jie, please see http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/calendar/2009/11/getting_a_database_error_in_yo.html

Comment 4

[bart]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0

I have a very similar issue where accept/decline buttons do not show up when I don't have local calendars defined. 

When I do have a local calendar defined, this is the only one where events from meeting requests are being added to. Even if I have a remote calendar selected in the calendar list. Once accepted this 'local' event can't be moved to a remote calendar.

I'm using Provider for Google Calendar 0.6b1 and in the end I would like events created by meeting requests to be synced to Google Calendar. Nothing should be stored in local calendars.

Comment 5

[Gilles Dumortier]

Dear all,

I have the problem and I'm able to reproduce it.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4

(the same with Thunderbird/3.0.5)
(not able to test with Thunderbird/3.1 RC1, Lightning not supported)

With a local calendar (active or not), the accept/decline buttons are available and the invitation is pushed in the local calendar.

Without any local calendar and only a Google calendar, the accept/decline buttons are not available.

Is it a limitation of the product ?

I don't understand the interest of such product if you can't accept/decline invitation for your networked calendar, the one which is sync with everyone and with mobile phone.

Comment 6

[Gilles Dumortier]

Dear,

I found a workaround :
set calendar.google.enableEmailInvitations to true (edit config / advanced)
then setup an account email in the agenda property.

More information here https://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:Configuring_Lightning

Comment 7

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

Attachment: Fix - v1

This patch doesn't fix Google not being suitable for invitations at the moment, but it does fix the message shown.

Instead of bailing out, a message is shown that no calendars are writable and configured.

I'm not quite sure the UI is good yet, I've emailed Andreas about this:

As we only have one line, the sentence shouldn't be too long. I tried to keep it short. On the downside, users might think its a problem with the configured email, while its just the fact that all are readonly and vice versa.

Am I too paranoid, or is it ok like this?

Comment 8

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

Attachment: Screenshot - v1

Comment 9

[Matthew Mecca [:mmecca]]

Comment on attachment 703049 [details] [diff] [review]
Fix - v1

Looks good to me. r=mmecca

Comment 10

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

I'm going to push this one even without ui-r, I'd appreciate a comment on it nevertheless. Thanks in advance.

Comment 11

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

Pushed to comm-central changeset 8a0355f39beb

Comment 12

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

Comment on attachment 703049 [details] [diff] [review]
Fix - v1

(In reply to Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] from comment #7)
> Created attachment 703049 [details] [diff] [review]
> Fix - v1
> 
> As we only have one line, the sentence shouldn't be too long. I tried to
> keep it short. On the downside, users might think its a problem with the
> configured email, while its just the fact that all are readonly and vice
> versa.

I think the sentence is clear enough as it says all calendars are read only and this shouldn't confuse the user with thinking he has a problem with the email.