652974 - Cannot accept calendar invitations into non-local (google) calendars

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 384308

(Calendar :: Provider: GData, defect)

Description

[Eric Engstrom]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.9 GDATA_Provider/0.7.1

I know the description of the GDATA Provider says that:

   "Note that it is not possible to accept an invitation received via
    email onto your Google Calendar."

... but that seriously limits the usefulness of the plug-in.   The
main purpose of having a google calendar is to share it, so entry of
local calendar items (via invitations) is pretty silly, IMO.  It's
not made clear what the limititation is exactly, but it seems as if
there aught to be a way to work around it if it is not a plug-in
specific issue.  

Please elaborate or point me at the ticket or issue that is the source
of the trouble.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Seems the same as Bug Bug 544217 that was resolved as duplicate of Bug 384308. More information on the problem is e.g. in Bug 407961 or Bug 510069.

As mentioned in the GData Provider homepage/FAQ you can enable invitation feature by switching a preference if you take the risk. Or you can test using the built-in CalDAV provider instead of GData provider.