No writable calendars are configured for invitations

[Alex Regan]

Hi,
I'm using thunderbird-78.4.0 on fedora32 with provider for google calendar 78.0.1 and having what appears to be a very common problem. Is Lightning no longer necessary/supported on thunderbird?

I have a personal al...@mycompany.com address that I've configured to use with my Google account. Both have been added to thunderbird and they are not configured to be read-only.

The problem appears to be similar to this one from a year ago. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1138636

I've used the "config editor" to add "calendar.google.enableEmailInvitations" as per the following (it didn't previously exist)
https://github.com/kewisch/gdata-provider/wiki/FAQ

I've also enabled logging (calendar.debug.log and calendar.debug.log.verbose), but where do the log messages go? I don't see any obvious log file in my ~/.thunderbird directory.

I have two calendars created:
googleapi://mye...@gmail.com/?calendar=nr63oe0e...eut0jq0%40group.calendar.google.com

googleapi://al...@mycompany.com/?calendar=myemail%40gmail.com

Is that correct? What am I missing? Is this plugin completely broken?

[WaltS48]

On 11/9/20 5:06 PM, Alex Regan wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm using thunderbird-78.4.0 on fedora32 with provider for google calendar 78.0.1 and having what appears to be a very common problem. Is Lightning no longer necessary/supported on thunderbird?
>

Lightning is no longer an extension and is now a built-in feature.

The Provider for Google Calendar extension should work in version 78.

> I have a personal al...@mycompany.com address that I've configured to use with my Google account. Both have been added to thunderbird and they are not configured to be read-only.
>
> The problem appears to be similar to this one from a year ago. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1138636
>
> I've used the "config editor" to add "calendar.google.enableEmailInvitations" as per the following (it didn't previously exist)
> https://github.com/kewisch/gdata-provider/wiki/FAQ
>
> I've also enabled logging (calendar.debug.log and calendar.debug.log.verbose), but where do the log messages go? I don't see any obvious log file in my ~/.thunderbird directory.
>
> I have two calendars created:
> googleapi://mye...@gmail.com/?calendar=nr63oe0e...eut0jq0%40group.calendar.google.com
>
> googleapi://al...@mycompany.com/?calendar=myemail%40gmail.com
>
> Is that correct? What am I missing? Is this plugin completely broken?
>

Those look correct and you checked Properties and are positive they are
not read-only? Did you check the calendars on the web?

I'm not that familiar with invitations and my tests always work.

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[Alex Regan]

> > I have two calendars created:
> > googleapi://mye...@gmail.com/?calendar=nr63oe0e...eut0jq0%40group.calendar.google.com
> >
> > googleapi://al...@mycompany.com/?calendar=myemail%40gmail.com
> >
> > Is that correct? What am I missing? Is this plugin completely broken?
> >
> Those look correct and you checked Properties and are positive they are
> not read-only? Did you check the calendars on the web?
>
> I'm not that familiar with invitations and my tests always work.

Yes, I'm positive the calendars are not read-only.

In the "Share with specific people" section of "Calendar settings", the "(Owner)" of the calendar is my @gmail.com address. I've sent an invite to my us...@mycompany.com address, but every time I click the resulting link to create a calendar account for that user, it says "this calendar already exists".

What am I missing?

I have one calendar for my @gmail.com address and one calendar for my us...@mycompany.com address, but neither user is listed in their respective "share with specific people" section. Is that correct?

[WaltS48]

What am I missing? I can't find any "Share with specific people" section
in my Calendar preferences.

If you are using an extension that provides that preference it may no
longer work.

I have one network calendar and the rest are local.

If I send an invitation to an event from the network calendar I see
"This message contains an event that has already processed" with a
"Details" button in the received email that opens the event in an event
dialog window.

[John Stinchcombe]

Hi,

I also have a series of google calendars-- not configured to be read-only-- that are not write-able. I have tried removing them and then adding them, with no success.

Using TB 78.4.3, and bidirectional google calendar 78.0.1

This severely limits functionality.

J

[WaltS48]

On 11/12/20 11:28 AM, John Stinchcombe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I also have a series of google calendars-- not configured to be read-only-- that are not write-able. I have tried removing them and then adding them, with no success.
>
> Using TB 78.4.3, and bidirectional google calendar 78.0.1
>
> This severely limits functionality.
>
> J
>

Also using Fedora 32?

[peshos]

Not only on Fedora. I'm using Windows 10 and I'm having the same issue since the upgrade to v. 78.something. I've tried everything - removing Provider for Google Calendar, clearing cookies and remembered passwords, reinstalling it. I can accept an invitation, if I create a local calendar. I've been a happy Thunderbird user for a couple of decades and not-so-happy lately, so any ideas are welcome.

[Alex Regan]

On Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 12:24:12 PM UTC-5, WaltS48 wrote:
> On 11/12/20 11:28 AM, John Stinchcombe wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I also have a series of google calendars-- not configured to be read-only-- that are not write-able. I have tried removing them and then adding them, with no success.
> >
> > Using TB 78.4.3, and bidirectional google calendar 78.0.1
> >
> > This severely limits functionality.
> >
> > J
> >
> Also using Fedora 32?

This does appear to be a Fedora 32 problem, or at least TB on Linux.

The calendars are writable on Win10 TB 78.4.0 (32-bit)

Just to be clear, is it necessary to have a us...@gmail.com account in order to share the calendar, or can it just be done with the single us...@mycompany.com with only a calendar account? I thought it was necessary to have a us...@gmail.com account to actually contain the calendar, then make it accessible to the us...@mycompany.com user.

My goal is to be able to use Google Calendar to create and share events as my us...@mycompany.com user, and not have them reflect us...@gmail.com when the recipient receives them.