[kronolith] Some issues with attendees and Lightning

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Alfonso Marí­n Marí­n <almarin at um.es>:

> Hi list:
>
> We have some users using Sunbird/Lightning publishing throw WebDAV their
> calendars in Kronolith, and they have a problem with events with attendees.
>
> When an user creates a new event with attendees (it doesn't matter if it
> is created in kronolith or Lightning), every time they publish the
> calendar, all attendees are stripped out in every event.
>
> Checking the code i found this comment in Driver.php:line 907
>
>         // Attendance.
>         // Importing attendance may result in confusion: editing an imported
>         // copy of an event can cause invitation updates to be sent from
>         // people other than the original organizer. So we don't import by
>         // default. However to allow updates by SyncML replication, the
> custom
>         // X-ATTENDEE attribute is used which has the same syntax as
>         // ATTENDEE.
>
> I agree with that comment, but some users ask me about the possibility
> to keep the attendees at least in the original event, I mean, at least
> the creator should be able to check attendees status, for instance.
>
> I think the solution would be checking if creator_id match with the
> owner of the calendar that is being published, and only for that event
> respect the attendance. I think that solution would be consistent with
> the comment shown above.
>
> ¿What do you think?

Generally yes, but we would need a separate organizer field in the  
Kronolith table for that, because the creator_id is not necessarily  
the same like the event organizer or even the event owner.

Jan.

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