DAVx5 and attachment support

[Dave Brand]

I realize that managed attachment support in CalDAV is in a preview state at best. Is this really the latest? https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8607

But one thing that would help me a lot is if attachments could be saved via DAVx5 (or SAF) so there's some way for me to find them on other devices. It would also keep them from getting lost when people switch phones.

Maybe if there was a way to specify where to save the attachments. Right now it seems to be hardcoded to something like content://com.android.externalstorage.documents/tree/primary%3ACalenGoo/document/primary%3ACalenGoo%2FAttachments.

As for an ATTACH tag, this is what Nexcloud is generating but I see it's chock full of extensions so i suspect it isn't going to be too helpful:

ATTACH;FMTTYPE=application/pdf;FILENAME=/filename.pdf;X-NC-FILE-ID=12345;X-NC-HAS-PREVIEW=true:/f/12345

On the other hand, this might just be the blob you get back when you create the file so maybe it's usable?

Any thoughts?

[CalenGoo Support]

Hi,

you can change the directory for attachments under "Settings > Display and Use > General > Storage location". Does that help? 🤔

Kind regards

Dominique

[Dave Brand]

I don't see that setting but I do see a Data directory setting under "Settings > Display and Use > Maintenance". It's under "Device specific problems" though so I wanted to check before playing with it.

[CalenGoo Support]

The setting is only displayed if "Settings > Display and Use > Edit view > Attachments" is turned on. Then it should be directly under that line. Can you find it there?

Kind regards

Dominique

[Dave Brand]

Ah. Good. You were talking about something else.

I found that option and it wants an account to store the attachments in. It only accepts Google accounts - no way to use CalDAV.

Feature request?

The other approach I was thinking about was to set up 2-way sync between the CalenGoo attachments folder on Android and my /Calendar folder on Nextcloud where I keep my attachments. It'll be a bit cumbersome to find the attachments but at least they'll all be in one place.