Calendar background setting not working

[Romain Schmid - admin]

Hi, 

I am trying to setup the resource calendars with some success. I fail at setting the background and foreground colors. 

Here's my gam command : 

gam user demo.calendar@xxx.ch add calendar xxx@resource.calendar.google.com colorindex 1 backgroundcolor #0101DF foregroundcolor #81F7F3

Terminal (I'm on a Mac) returns the common usage commands examples. If I remove the background and foreground colors, it works perfectly, including the colorindex. 

I've tried to remove the #, and gam detects the background parameter as it says that the html color needs a #.

Any clue ?

Thanks

[Luke MacKinney]

Have you tried Quotes around like  "backgroundcolor #0101DF" "foregroundcolor #81F7F3"

Just a wild guess.

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[Ross Scroggs]

There is a lot going on here.

Yes, the quotes are required as # is a comment symbol in the shell and the rest of the command line is discarded.

You either use colorindex or backgroundcolor/foregroundcolor but not both. Valid values for colorindex are 1 to 24.

If you lookup the values for colorindex 1, you get background color #ac725e and foregroundcolor #1d1d1d.

If you use the API to set these values you get an error on the foregroundcolor. If fact it appears that #000000 is the only acceptable value for foregroundcolor.

If you use the API to set the colorindex to 1, the response says that the backgroundcolor was set to #ac725e and the foregroundcolor was set to #000000, not #1d1d1d.

So, I'd give up on foregroundcolor.

But, there is a coding error in GAM that prevents backgroundcolor from being properly interpreted by the API. I have sent the corrections to Jay.

If you have the UNIX version of GAM and require an immediate fix and know what you're doing, here is a diff (on GAM 3.51) that shows the correction.

addCalendar

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>   colorRgbFormat = False

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>       colorRgbFormat = True

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>       colorRgbFormat = True

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<     callGAPI(service=cal.calendarList(), function=u'insert', body=body)

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>     callGAPI(service=cal.calendarList(), function=u'insert', body=body, colorRgbFormat=colorRgbFormat)

updateCalendar

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>   colorRgbFormat = False

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>       colorRgbFormat = True

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>       colorRgbFormat = True

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<     callGAPI(service=cal.calendarList(), function=u'update', calendarId=calendarId, body=body)

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>     callGAPI(service=cal.calendarList(), function=u'update', calendarId=calendarId, body=body, colorRgbFormat=colorRgbFormat)

Ross

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[Romain Schmid - admin]

Thank you for your precise answer. I'll finally give up setting colors, I've chosen to use the colorindex instead. I had thought of the possibility that both colorindex AND background settings used in the same command would mess up, but not tested. 

Thanks for the answer and the coming fix !

Best regards, 

Romain