[kronolith] accepting invitations does not add them to the calendar

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Calendar Debug <calendar-debug at gbif.org>:

> Hi Jan, Jens,
>
>
> On 02/25/2013 12:04 PM, Jan Schneider wrote:
>>
>> Zitat von Calendar Debug <calendar-debug at gbif.org>:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm testing a horde webmail groupware installation and it seems that
>>> events are not added to the attendees' calendars when clicking on the
>>> "accept and update in my calendar" -> Go button.
>>>
>>> The scenario is:
>>>
>>> initiator:
>>> - creates event in Horde UI
>>> - adding attendee; attendee Free/busy shown as green;  green box "the
>>> notification was successfully sent"
>>> - receives email about event being added (notification)
>>> - event is shown in the initiator's calendar
>>>
>>> attendee:
>>> - "accept and update in my calendar"-> Go; the UI says "the event was
>>> updated in your calendar"; "reply sent"
>>
>> That's the point. It was UPDATED not ADDED.
>>
>>> - the event is NOT added to the attendee's calendar
>>>
>>> initiator:
>>> - receives email from attendee about the invitation being accepted
>>> - clicks on "update respondent status"; green box "respondent status
>>> updated"
>>> - editing the event -> "attendees" tab shows the attendee with status
>>> "accepted" (checked) BUT the free/busy is still green - probably because
>>> the event has not been added in the attendee's calendar.
>>>
>>> Both users have full permissions on each others calendars. The interface
>>> is dynamic.
>>
>> And this is the culprit. Either use shared calendars or  
>> invitations. Mixing both doesn't make sense and has side-effects  
>> like this.
>
> Thank you both for replying. That was indeed the case - switching  
> permissions to delegate-only made it work.
>
> I'm glad it was me :-)
>
> I've tried half a dozen calendars during the last 2 weeks and  
> Horde/Kronolith seems by FAR the closest to what we need.
>
> I also have another question about cross-platform integration,  
> mainly if you know from experience if the invitation/accepting  
> process works between Outlook and Mac Mail/Apple Calendar.
>
> Ideally for us the stubborn Windows users should be able to exchange  
> events/invitations/status updates with the stubborn Apple users  
> using their dedicated clients, but so far I haven't had much luck in  
> my tests as responses to invitations and status updates get  
> misinterpreted/ignored between clients. If you could tell me that it  
> SHOULD work then it means I'm doing something wrong and I'll dig  
> more into it and then post a new question with the details.

Yes, it should work, that's what the iTip and iCalendar standards are for.

> Users will understandably prefer (read "insist") to employ their  
> respective platform clients for all emails and not have to open  
> calendar related emails with the Horde web interface nor to use the  
> same client on all platforms (for instance Thunderbird)...
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Best regards,
> Andrei


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Jan Schneider
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