[kronolith] Question regarding sending updates to all attendees when event is copied

[Jens Grüntjes]

Zitat von Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:

> Quoting Jens Grüntjes <jens.gruentjes at ebira.de>:
>
>> Zitat von Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>>
>>> Quoting Jens Grüntjes <jens.gruentjes at ebira.de>:
>>>
>>>> Hello list,
>>>>
>>>> someone sends an invitation to several attendees and a colleague  
>>>> of mine accepts the invitation so that the event is created in  
>>>> his calendar. I have read access to my colleagues calendar and  
>>>> want to copy that event into my calendar. When I click on "Save  
>>>> as copy" (hope this is the original English message on the  
>>>> button) every attendee gets an email from me that the event has  
>>>> changed. This is a bit annoying (not as much for me as for the  
>>>> other attendees).
>>>>
>>>> When I change an event in my calendar and I have to change  
>>>> something I'm asked if every attendee should be informed about my  
>>>> modifications. Do I make a mistake when copying the event so that  
>>>> I did not see a checkbox that asked me if I wanted to notify the  
>>>> other attendees or is this by design? If the latter applies do  
>>>> you think it's worth filing an improvement at bugs.horde.org?
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if the behavior is actually wrong. Saving an event as  
>>> a copy saves the event as a completely new event. If there are  
>>> attendees on this new event, then they would get a meeting notice  
>>> just as if you just created the event manually. The only part that  
>>> doesn't sound right is the part about the notices saying the event  
>>> was updated, as opposed to a new one.
>> To clarify what I said and to prevent you from digging into the  
>> Horde code: One of the attendees sent a mail to me (from Outlook I  
>> guess) which said that I wanted to notify him about the event.  
>> After reading your comment I maybe have to correct my first post  
>> where I said that the event *changed*. At  
>> http://picpaste.com/event-4gL9jTtr.png I uploaded a screenshot from  
>> the (Outlook) mail from the attendee. Unfortunately it's in German.  
>> (Literally?) translated the bold line says: "Jens Grüntjes wants to  
>> call your attention to 'Sitzung am …'" I don't know how Outlook  
>> makes a difference between new events and modified events, but it  
>> might be a new event.
>>>
>>> It sounds like what you are trying to do is accept/add this event  
>>> on your own calendar as if you were one of the original attendees,  
>>> but without actually being one.
>> Yes, that's true. But this also holds if I am an original attendee  
>> and make a copy of an event and put that into a shared calendar.
>>>
>>> That being said, I could see adding an extra step when the event  
>>> being copied still contains attendees - to verify that you really  
>>> want to copy the event with the attendees or not.
>> Yes, that would be really helpful. Maybe something like the  
>> question that shows up when I modify an event with attendees.  
>> Kronolith asks if I want to send the modifications to all attendees  
>> after submitting the modifications.
>
> Please create an enhancement request on bugs.horde.org.

https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/14164