Tasks Only on Home Calendar?

[mmckay...@gmail.com]

I haven't been able to find an answer to this but why can't I make a new task on any calendar except the Home one? Any other calendar says: "Please select a calendar that supports tasks". Is it a Google issue? I can't even colour code the categories either. I'm using Provider for Google Calendar as well.

[WaltS48]

On 8/15/17 4:56 PM, mmckay...@gmail.com wrote:
> I haven't been able to find an answer to this but why can't I make a new task on any calendar except the Home one? Any other calendar says: "Please select a calendar that supports tasks". Is it a Google issue? I can't even colour code the categories either. I'm using Provider for Google Calendar as well.
>

Could you please provide more information?

What operating system, version of Thunderbird, version of Provider for
Google Calendar.

Thanks.

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On 2017.08.15 22:56, mmckay...@gmail.com wrote:
> I haven't been able to find an answer to this but why can't I make a new task on any calendar except the Home one? Any other calendar says: "Please select a calendar that supports tasks". Is it a Google issue? I can't even colour code the categories either. I'm using Provider for Google Calendar as well.
>

I'm using CalDAV with Google Calendar and I can confirm that I also have
this problem.

To all fairness, I have never noticed this problem before because I've
always been using calendar events as tasks. So I wasn't bothered to use
"Task" at all.

However, I have no answer to your questions. I can only give you some
observations of mine.

* I have another CalDAV-based calendar in another domain (ie not Google)
and I cannot create task with that either.

* In https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/creating-new-calendars
It's written that "Using Thunderbird it's possible to have multiple
calendars. You can create these in *Calendar Mode* or in *Task Mode*."

I've looked everywhere for this "calendar mode" or "task mode" but in
vain. No idea what this means!

* AFAIK, GMail has abandoned the support of tasks since quite a long
time. I've just open my Gmail in a browser and can't find where to
create a task.

I don't know, maybe tasks in lightning are only possible in local calendars?

[Stefan Sitter]

As far as I know you cannot enter tasks in Google Calendar calendars.
This is a limitation of Google Calendar because Google Tasks is
independent from Google Calendar. But if you create a new calendar in
Thunderbird using Provider for Google Calendar you can connect to your
Google Tasks list as well I think. This will add a calendar in Lightning
that supports tasks but not events.

/Stefan