771328 - Need ability to copy/paste information from calendar invite / read only event dialog

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 390753

(Calendar :: Dialogs, enhancement)

Description

[Michael Baffoni]

When sent a meeting invite where there is a concall, the concall information shows up in the "location" field.  I have a UC system that allows me to copy/paste the number to dial (but could also be relevant if I was copy pasting into my address book, etc.).  However, I have no way to access the location or other information in the general section of the task.

Reproduceable: always:

Step 1: receive an invite
step 2: attempt to put any information from "general" into past buffer.

Comment 1

[Michael Baffoni]

Fixed in current version: Tbird 18.0a2(2012-10-22), Lightning 2.0a2.
(now if only I could have a copy of the entire entry that I could just forward to someone, like what is created by the HTML view of .ics files, instead of the current raw vCAL output when you right-click and select copy).

Comment 2

[Michael Baffoni]

Sorry, just realized I can only copy/paste information if I created the meeting.  If someone else created the meeting and I'm just accepting it, I can't click into the location (or anywhere else) and copy/paste the information.

I suppose I have the work around to right-click on the entire meeting and paste the raw vcal into a text editor and then look through it to find the data, but that is far from an elegant solution.

Comment 5

[Stephane CHAUVEAU]

Same issue for me. I occasionally receive invitations with very long title containing information such as phone numbers, access codes or URLs. If I remember well, meetings organized by IBM are often like that.

Not being able to copy is a real pain especially for URLs. 

A second related issue is that long titles are truncated. I remember one time when I lost at least 10m looking for an access code hidden in a truncated title. Annoying!

PS: Not sure if that is relevant but I am on Linux and using the Exchange Calendar plugin.

Comment 6

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Copying is possible in Lightning 6.0 for Thunderbird 58 and newer.