Default Calendar when Accepting Invites

[Peter...@gmail.com]

When i accept an invite it automagically places the event on my
personal calendar rather than on my work calendar where i would like
it. I would like it to either give me an option to choose a calendar
or let me set a default. Is this possible?

[Philipp Kewisch]

Have you set an email in the calendar properties dialog? If so, try
setting it to None.

Philipp

On Dec 23 2008, 5:29 pm, "PeterK2...@gmail.com" <PeterK2...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Ben]

Hi -

This problem applies to me too.

I'm using Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 with Lightning 0.9 and "Provider for
Google Calendar" 0.5.1. I have my default Google calendar (the first
calendar in Google calendar) configured in Lightning and I've deleted
the default Lightning calendar.

If I attempt to accept an invitation, I'm presented with a "Select
Calendar" pop-up with the prompt "Which calendar do you want to import
these items into?" with an empty text field (or multi-select list,
it's hard to tell) below. I would expect to see my configured Google
calendar in there.

If I configure a local calendar (moz-profile-calendar://?id=2 for
example) it inherits the email address of the primary email account in
Thunderbird and an attempt to accept an invitation goes into that
calendar (and hence not into Google calendar) without any prompt.
Removing the email account associated with the local calendar triggers
the empty pop-up.

My question is, how can I automatically get every invitation into my
Google calendar, or be presented with a properly populated calendar
selection pop-up to allow me to choose?

regards
Ben

[Ruediger Muetze]

Hi,

> This problem applies to me too.
>
> I'm using Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 with Lightning 0.9 and "Provider for
> Google Calendar" 0.5.1. I have my default Google calendar (the first
> calendar in Google calendar) configured in Lightning and I've
> deleted the default Lightning calendar.
>
> If I attempt to accept an invitation, I'm presented with a "Select
> Calendar" pop-up with the prompt "Which calendar do you want to
> import these items into?" with an empty text field (or multi-select
> list, it's hard to tell) below. I would expect to see my configured
> Google calendar in there.

you must enable email invitations first. You may do this in the advanced
configuration dialog:

calendar.google.enableEmailInvitations=true

and afterwards select the email address to use in your calendar's
properties.

But there's a but. If you enable this feature, Google calendar (or the
provider?) will send out invitations on every event you accept an
invitation to and replace the event invitee with your email address.
After some (kind of embarrassing) incidents like that, including such
mails to some 20 attendees (within the enterprise, though), I disabled
this feature again ;o)

Cheers

Ruediger

[Ben]

Hi Ruediger -

Thanks for your prompt reply. (Is the convention on this forum to top-
post or bottom post?)

I've made the change you suggested. (Set the advanced property
calendar.google.enableEmailInvitations=true and specify my Google
calendar login email as the email address for the calendar.)

Here's what happens when I attempt to accept an invitation:

The prompt "Would you like to send out notification E-Mails now?"
appears. Moments later (before I've interacted with that dialog) a
message box pops up with the title "Error getting calendar" and the
message "Invitation could not be processed Status 2147500037 Details:
A request Error Occurred. Status Code: 500 Internal Server Error Body:
Server Error."

Dismissing this, I'm presented with another error dialog: "An error
occurred when writing to the calendar Work! Error number:
MODIFICATION_FAILED Description:"

'Work' is the name I've given in Lightning to my default Google
calendar.

I'd really appreciate any help with this. My only reason for using
Lightning is to get Event Invitations into Google calendar.

Thanks again for your speedy response earlier!

Best Regards
Ben

[Ruediger Muetze]

Hi Ben,

> Thanks for your prompt reply. (Is the convention on this forum to top-
> post or bottom post?)

I have no idea, sorry. Any votes?

> Here's what happens when I attempt to accept an invitation:
>
> The prompt "Would you like to send out notification E-Mails now?"
> appears. Moments later (before I've interacted with that dialog) a
> message box pops up with the title "Error getting calendar" and the
> message "Invitation could not be processed Status 2147500037 Details:
> A request Error Occurred. Status Code: 500 Internal Server Error Body:
> Server Error."
>
> Dismissing this, I'm presented with another error dialog: "An error
> occurred when writing to the calendar Work! Error number:
> MODIFICATION_FAILED Description:"

I recently upgraded all my systems to Thunderbird 3 beta *and* I'm
unable to test this feature because I can't send an invitation to myself
(using our corporate calendar). That "MODIFICATION_FAILED" error however
is being seen many times on this forum, so maybe you'll find an answer
to that, too. (the "read only" flag is an rather too obvious cause, is it?)

> I'd really appreciate any help with this. My only reason for using
> Lightning is to get Event Invitations into Google calendar.

Uh, I love Thunderbird for running on all 3 platforms I use, for it's
speediness and much more. And yes, I'd love to get those "foreign"
events into my google calendar as well. Up to now I stick with Google's
calendar sync since I have to run a single MS Outlook client for the
sake of compliance with corporate rules. Once sync'ed all events are
stored in a single location and I have access from every client I use.
Good enough.

Sorry again for not being of more help today.

Regards

Ruediger

[Philipp Kewisch]

Everyone that is having problems with invitations, please try the
CalDAV protocol as mentioned in the sticky post.

I havent been able to reproduce the modification failed problems, I'll
let you know.
See bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462138 and
others.

Philipp