[dev] ATTENDEE and iCalendar imports

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Karsten Fourmont <fourmont at gmx.de>:

> Jan Schneider wrote:
>> For meeting planning you have one single organizer. This organizer   
>> can change the meeting details and sent invitation updates to the   
>> attendees. If an attendee would import the other attendees from the  
>>  invitation while he adds the event from the invitation to his   
>> calendar, and then changes his personal event copy at a later   
>> point, the other attendees would get invitation updates from him.
>> This would cause a lot confusion at best, and can mess up the   
>> attendees' calendars at worst.
>
> Agreed. However For SyncML replication the situation is somewhat
> special:  the data gets replicated from one calendar owned by me (in
> horde) to another one owned by me (my PDA). So I'd like to have the
> attendee information on both: If i create a meeting with my PDA while
> with a customer I want to "finish" this later using Horde.

That makes sense.

> So as workaround I'll rename ATTENDEE to X-ATTENDEE for the _import_
> part.  The SyncML module converts incoming ATTENDEEs to X-ATTENDEEs so
> it works just in this special case. OK?

If Kronolith can't distinguish between SyncML imports and "normal"  
imports, yes.

> Two more observations about invitations and attendees:
>
> 1) rfc2445 provides the "ORGANIZER" attribute for just that. Currently
> we always set it to the current user when exporting an event. Maybe we
> should store the organizer for an event? Only this organizer would sent
> invitation/updates. Then we could import attendees without the
> confusion issues.

We already have the event creator who is equivalent to the event organizer.

> 2) While at it: shouldn't we keep the real name of the attendees in
> addition to their email addresses? For me that's one of the big
> advantages of this attendee thing: having the names of the people
> you're going to meet at hand.

Sure, we can easily extend the serialized attendees array to also  
contain the full name.

Jan.

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