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Gary Dale
Sep 13, 2017, 1:30:02 AM9/13/17
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I'm running Debian/Buster on an amd64 system.
I am trying to add another google calendar to my Korganizer/Kontact
calendar. I already have one google calendar for personal affairs and
have created another calendar for a group I belong to. Since it uses a
different (not gmail) e-mail address, I went into the calendar view in
Kontact and right-clicked on the calendar list panel then selected Add
Calendar (also available as "settings | configure Korganizer").
I chose "Google Calendars and Tasks" from the list of calendar types,
which brought up another dialogue with the title bar reading "Google
Calendars and Tasks (not configured) of type Google Calendars and Tasks"
It shows my personal gmail address as the only entry in the pulldown.
When I click the Add button in the accounts panel, it brings up a second
dialogue asking me to:
Sign in
Continue to Akonadi Resources for Google Services
and prompting me for my e-mail or phone. When I fill in the e-mail
address for the new calendar I want to add, it takes me to another
dialogue to enter my password, then finally to a dialogue telling me
Akonadi Resources for Google Services wants to
Manage your contactsMore info
Manage your calendarsMore info
Manage your tasks
When I click on Allow, it takes me to yet another dialogue telling me to
sign in, with a message "Please copy this code, switch to your
application and paste it there", followed by a very long code.
At this point I am stumped. I'm already in my application and the
dialogue is blocking me from doing anything else in it. If I copy the
code and close the dialogue, there is nothing to indicate where to paste
the code.
Googling the problem hasn't located anything helpful. The presence of
the code dialogue isn't mentioned anywhere.
I did find a mention of KWallet which seems to be what is creating the
problem. When I look through KWallet, I find that it contains an entry
in Folders | Akonadi Google (1) | Maps for my personal gmail address,
with 3 name-value pairs (accessToken, refreshToken and scopes). While
the code I copied (above) looks like a refreshToken (correct length),
and the scopes seems to be generic, I don't have an accessToken (which
is very long).
Creating a new Maps entry for my group's calendar account, I manually
created the various names and p[asted the refreshToken's value. I also
copied the scopes value from my personal account's map. That isn't
sufficient to give me access to the Google calendar however. Copying the
accessToken's value from my personal account to the group one just gives
me a second access to my personal calendar, which Korganizer sort of
handles. This suggests that what I need is an accessToken for the
group's calendar.
Removing the (faulty) group calendar and reloading my personal calendar
and things are back to where I started.
Any ideas on how to get the second Google calendar added?
I am trying to add another google calendar to my Korganizer/Kontact
calendar. I already have one google calendar for personal affairs and
have created another calendar for a group I belong to. Since it uses a
different (not gmail) e-mail address, I went into the calendar view in
Kontact and right-clicked on the calendar list panel then selected Add
Calendar (also available as "settings | configure Korganizer").
I chose "Google Calendars and Tasks" from the list of calendar types,
which brought up another dialogue with the title bar reading "Google
Calendars and Tasks (not configured) of type Google Calendars and Tasks"
It shows my personal gmail address as the only entry in the pulldown.
When I click the Add button in the accounts panel, it brings up a second
dialogue asking me to:
Sign in
Continue to Akonadi Resources for Google Services
and prompting me for my e-mail or phone. When I fill in the e-mail
address for the new calendar I want to add, it takes me to another
dialogue to enter my password, then finally to a dialogue telling me
Akonadi Resources for Google Services wants to
Manage your contactsMore info
Manage your calendarsMore info
Manage your tasks
When I click on Allow, it takes me to yet another dialogue telling me to
sign in, with a message "Please copy this code, switch to your
application and paste it there", followed by a very long code.
At this point I am stumped. I'm already in my application and the
dialogue is blocking me from doing anything else in it. If I copy the
code and close the dialogue, there is nothing to indicate where to paste
the code.
Googling the problem hasn't located anything helpful. The presence of
the code dialogue isn't mentioned anywhere.
I did find a mention of KWallet which seems to be what is creating the
problem. When I look through KWallet, I find that it contains an entry
in Folders | Akonadi Google (1) | Maps for my personal gmail address,
with 3 name-value pairs (accessToken, refreshToken and scopes). While
the code I copied (above) looks like a refreshToken (correct length),
and the scopes seems to be generic, I don't have an accessToken (which
is very long).
Creating a new Maps entry for my group's calendar account, I manually
created the various names and p[asted the refreshToken's value. I also
copied the scopes value from my personal account's map. That isn't
sufficient to give me access to the Google calendar however. Copying the
accessToken's value from my personal account to the group one just gives
me a second access to my personal calendar, which Korganizer sort of
handles. This suggests that what I need is an accessToken for the
group's calendar.
Removing the (faulty) group calendar and reloading my personal calendar
and things are back to where I started.
Any ideas on how to get the second Google calendar added?
Gary Dale
Jan 5, 2018, 9:30:02 PM1/5/18
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answer now, since I've been seeing messages since November saying that
kdepim works. Unfortunately I note that kdepim on Buster seems to be
back at 16.04.3.
Obviously at some point adding Google calendars worked since I have one
and have no recollection of it being in any way difficult. However I
still can't add a second Google calendar. Even the arcane procedure I
listed above continues to produce the same results.
Can anyone offer any assistance?
Facundo Aguilera
Jan 6, 2018, 11:30:02 PM1/6/18
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Hi, you can share the calendar from your group account to your personal account, then use your group calendar directly from your personal account in korganizer.
Facu
Gary Dale
Jan 8, 2018, 12:30:03 AM1/8/18
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I've just noticed the problem is worse than I thought. I have events
on my main Google calendar that aren't showing up on Kontact and
others that are showing up wrong. This makes me believe that my main
calendar hasn't been synched with Google for a couple of months (the
date I last added an event that shows up on both Google and
Kontact). I can't get it too resync manually either.
This means that sometime after I first reported the problem, my main Google calendar has stopped synching and now Kontact is really pretty useless. I have to use either my phone or a web browser to check my calendar....
Can anyone offer some advice on how to make this work?
This means that sometime after I first reported the problem, my main Google calendar has stopped synching and now Kontact is really pretty useless. I have to use either my phone or a web browser to check my calendar....
Can anyone offer some advice on how to make this work?
Andy G Wood
Jan 8, 2018, 7:10:02 AM1/8/18
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On Monday, 8 January 2018 00:24:58 GMT Gary Dale wrote:
[...]
seemed to stop if a Gcalendar was updated outside of kdepim, whilst kdepim was
running (just an observation, not tested). I have been living with this
(hoping that 17.08 will fix the problem) by periodically deleting and
recreating my Gcalendar in kdepim. This fix eventually broke last week when I
could not recreate in kdepim because of the Google Services problem reported
in this thread.
Waiting for 17.08 to appear in testing ... and falling back to gcalcli.
Andy.
[...]
> I've just noticed the problem is worse than I thought. I have events on
> my main Google calendar that aren't showing up on Kontact and others
> that are showing up wrong. This makes me believe that my main calendar
> hasn't been synched with Google for a couple of months (the date I last
> added an event that shows up on both Google and Kontact). I can't get it
> too resync manually either.
I too have seen this problem over past months with Google calendar. Syncing
> my main Google calendar that aren't showing up on Kontact and others
> that are showing up wrong. This makes me believe that my main calendar
> hasn't been synched with Google for a couple of months (the date I last
> added an event that shows up on both Google and Kontact). I can't get it
> too resync manually either.
seemed to stop if a Gcalendar was updated outside of kdepim, whilst kdepim was
running (just an observation, not tested). I have been living with this
(hoping that 17.08 will fix the problem) by periodically deleting and
recreating my Gcalendar in kdepim. This fix eventually broke last week when I
could not recreate in kdepim because of the Google Services problem reported
in this thread.
Waiting for 17.08 to appear in testing ... and falling back to gcalcli.
Andy.
Gary Dale
Jan 18, 2018, 12:00:02 AM1/18/18
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back and was able to add a second calendar as well.
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