[kronolith] synchronize my calendar with mozilla/evolution/mobilephone

[dewi]

This has been covered a couple of times. Here are replies that I sent to 
the list  about a month ago:-
1.
Sunbird can access Horde in read only mode in the current stable release.
I am currently using Sunbird/mozilla calendar plugin to access Kronolith 
directly in read/write mode using patches created by
Dirkjan Bussink. The inital patches where againt a HEAD CVS release from 
last year, but he has recreated
the patches for the current Stable horde 3.1 and Kronolith.

In order to use the features, you setup a new calendar in sunbird and 
use the "remote URL" field to subscribe to Horde.
The URL needs to look something like this:-

http://your.server.address/horde/rpc.php/kronolith/yourcalendarusername.ics

for example:-

http://my.server.net/horde/rpc.php/kronolith/dewi@my.server.net.ics

The BIG gottcha here is that you currently must use your full horde 
account username to authenticate to the calendar,
in this example dewi at my.server.net

I have Horde setup to use imp as the authentication, but for access to 
horde, the users only have to type in the name part of the full 
username. This really messed me up for a while as I was using dewi to 
authenticate to the calendar in sunbird and of course I was not seeing 
my calendar. As soon as I use the dewi at my.server.net .... bingo full 
access.


2.
 In the imp/config directory, take a look at servers.php. In this file 
there is some explanation of the authentication used by imp. I think my 
issues stemmed from the following:-

 * hordeauth: If this parameter is present and true, then IMP will attempt
 *            to use the user's existing credentials (the username/password
 *            they used to log in to Horde) to log in to this source. If 
this
 *            parameter is 'full', the username will be used unmodified;
 *            otherwise everything after and including the first @ in the
 *            username will be stripped off before attempting 
authentication.
 *

I have mine set to full, so I believe my kronolith entries were being 
created with the "calendar_id" and
"event_creator_id"  set to "dewi at brentwood.bc.ca". Hence when using 
sunbird, I had to use dewi at brentwood.bc.ca
as my authentication name.

If your entries are being created with just nathanael, it would suggest 
to be that you have hordeauth set, but NOT set to full,
so the @whatever.server is being stripped off.
Just a suggestion that seems to fit with my experience, no idea if it 
really applies to yours,  try authenticating to the remote sunbird calendar
using the username without the "@gnat.ca."

3.
We are running php 4.4 under debian stable and yes I do have the  PEAR 
webdav package installed.

4. I was pretty much in the position as you and discovered that the 
username I use to authenticate mattered.
I discovered this by examining the database after creating an event with 
sunbird - the event was created, but with a different calendar_id from 
teh one I got with my kronolith events. Once I got the correct username, 
everything worked fine.
I think I set my horde calendar entry in sunbird to automatically 
publish my changes.
Also be sure when you create a calendar item that you create it in your 
horde calendar and not in "My Calendar" which is typically the default, 
even if you have "my calendar" not displaying.In fact you may want to 
delete the default "My Calendar".

That's about all I can offer I'm afraid.

Dewi

> Hello,
>
> how can I synchronize the horde-calender (kronolith) with calendar in  
> mozilla, thunderbird or mobilephone? Or how can I use the same  
> calendar in all this applications?
>
> does anyone have any experience with this problem?
>
>
> regards
> Bernd
>