[horde] New Kronolith appt w/no invitees sync to iOS, result in greyed item in iOS Calendar

[Simon Wilson]

  ----- Message from Simon Wilson <simon at simonandkate.net> ---------
    Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:05:53 +0000
    From: Simon Wilson <simon at simonandkate.net>
Reply-To: simon at simonandkate.net
Subject: [horde] New Kronolith appt w/no invitees sync to iOS, result in
greyed item in iOS Calendar
      To: "horde at lists.horde.org" <horde at lists.horde.org>

> When I generate a new basic appointment with no attendees from Kronolith
> 4.0.4, Horde 5.0.4, it generates an SQL entry with event_attendees as
> a:0:{}. All good.
>
> That syncs as the following event:
>
> <Snip>
>
> So, still no attendees. All good still.
>
> iOS for some reason (love Apple!) tags the event with Invitees: (the
> originating email account). Because of that, iOS Calendar shows the
> event as Greyed out with a dashed border. Any event that I create on
> Kronolith with no specified attendees syncs to iOS with the owner as an
> attendee, and does not display correctly. If I add any attendee in a new
> Kronolith appointment, it syncs with that Invitee, and displays fine.
>
> Google finds a few people with the problem, but no solution other than
> remove the invitee, which fixes it. I did find a comment that iOS 6
> (I've tried 6 and 6.1, no change) Calendar is more sensitive to "meeting
> type" in the synced event - is that something that needs to be / can be
> explicitly added to the event comms from Horde AS where there are no
> invitees - is that a particular type of meeting / appointment in AS tags?
>
> This does not occur in Android - works fine, does not add an invitee,
> and just displays as an attendee-less appointment. Adding an attendee in
> Kronolith Android shows Organiser and Attendees.
>
> If you go into the event in iOS calendar, and remove the invitee, the
> event then displays correctly. This syncs back to ActiveSync:
>
> <snip>
>
> That then syncs over to another iOS device on this account as this:
>
> <snip>
>
> But the other iOS device still shows the owner as an invitee, and
> displays incorrectly.
>
> Any suggestions? This is affecting my wife's calendar particularly, as I
> have just migrated all of her content into the new Horde 5 by import /
> export in Kronolith, so it's pushed ALL of her appointments out to iOS
> as greyed out... :-/
>
> "WAF" is dropping LOL...
>
> Cheers
> Simon.
>
> --
> Simon Wilson
> M: 0400 12 11 16

As an additional piece of information, Exchange ActiveSync accounts synced
to the same devices do not exhibit this behaviour when no-invitee
appointments are created in e.g. Outlook.

Simon



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Simon Wilson
M: 0400 12 11 16
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