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

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting Simon Wilson <simon at simonandkate.net>:

> ----- Message from Simon Wilson <simon at simonandkate.net> ---------
>     Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:10:48 +0000
>     From: Simon Wilson <simon at simonandkate.net>
> Reply-To: simon at simonandkate.net
>  Subject: Re: [horde] New Kronolith appt w/no invitees sync to iOS,  
> result in greyed item in iOS Calendar
>       To: horde at lists.horde.org
>
>
>> ----- 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
>>
>
> OK, another update - with two devices on the same Horde account,  
> when you edit the appointment on one device to remove the invitee,  
> which fixes it for that device, that obviously initiates a re-sync.  
> Re-syncing the appointment back through Horde AS to the other device  
> then resets the second device's state to have the originator as an  
> invitee again. So fixing it on one device breaks it on the other  
> one, and vice versa.
>
> Generating an invitee-free invitation on one of the iOS devices  
> works fine for THAT device. No invitee is added. But when it syncs  
> through Horde AS to Kronolith and back down to the other device, the  
> organiser is added as an invitee, and the problem re-occurs.

Please create a ticket.

-- 
mike

The Horde Project (www.horde.org)
mrubinsk at horde.org
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