invitation no calenders to select

[cromn]

I use Google calender provider in Thunderbird for managing 3
calenders, a personal one, and one for each of my 2 jobs, I have no
other calenders in Thunderbird but the Google calenders. When I try
to accept an invitation for a meeting Thunderbird opens a "Select
Calender" dialog asking which calender to import the items into,
however the list is empty and I cannot add the appointment to my
calender or accept the invitation.
How do I get Thunderbird to recognize my Google calenders so i can add
invitations to them? I've read the wiki and this entry
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:GDATA_Provider#I_recieved_an_invitation_from_a_friend._When_trying_to_accept.2C_my_Google_Calendars_are_not_in_the_select_calendar_dialog.2C_or_no_dialog_is_shown
seems to describe my issue with the select calender dialog but only
describes how to fix the issue of multiple notification emails sending
not how to add invites to the calender.

If anyone could help me with this I would greatly appreciate it. I
work with the GDATA Calender API for web application development and
am familiar with it. It should be possible to add an appointment from
an invite, but I'm sadly unfamiliar with Mozilla add-on programing so
I'm not sure how to accomplish it.

Thanks everyone,
-Cromn

[Alex]

Same here...

I've been dealing with this issue for 2 or more months now with no
response for a solution...

Looking forward to the day that I can respond to an invite and add
events to my calendar again.

Alex

On Jul 21, 11:25 am, cromn <andocr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I use Google calender provider in Thunderbird for managing 3
> calenders, a personal one, and one for each of my 2 jobs, I have no
> other calenders in Thunderbird but the Google calenders.  When I try
> to accept an invitation for a meeting Thunderbird opens a "Select
> Calender" dialog asking which calender to import the items into,
> however the list is empty and I cannot add the appointment to my
> calender or accept the invitation.
> How do I get Thunderbird to recognize my Google calenders so i can add

> invitations to them?  I've read the wiki and this entryhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:GDATA_Provider#I_recieved_an_invita...

[cromn]

does anyone know why they don't show up in the calender list? it must
be a problem with the way thunderbird recognizes the calender. maybe
something to do with it being an online calender or perhaps it's being
indicated as read only.

-cromn

[Alex]

I would say that being an online calendar does affect it somehow, but
there should be some recourse to make it work. Having an online
calendar it the beauty of using calendars to begin with... you can
access them from anywhere (my iphone, for example, TB, and Google)...
and mine is not set to read only, so I can make and remove
appointments at will (which works 95% of the time).

-Alex

[Max Mikhanosha]

Just went through the same thing, my understanding of this issue.

1. When this addon adds your event to Google Calendar you are recorded
as the owner of the event.. There is currently no way to sync the
event to Google Calendar while setting organizer to be someone else
(ie the guy who sent you the invitation)

2. As a result Google Calendar was sending emails to all the
participants/attendees for these events which you added by accepting
email invitation.

3. Many people posted horror stories of accepting invitation to a
company wide email (with 100+ participants) and having Google Calendar
then Spam all the participants with duplicated invitations.

Until all of the above is sorted out, as a workaround this addon does
not allow adding events by responding to email invitations.. There is
yet another workaround to prevent the original problem of Google
Calendar spamming the attendees with invitations, and for that there
is a new setting which prevents this addon from sending attendee/
participants info to Google Calendar, ie all events accepted via email
will have no participants, thus preventing Google from spamming them.

There is a way to enable responding to email invitations, I will show
it below. If you enable it, you will also need to enable the other
setting of not sending attendee info to Google Calendar, otherwise
you'll end up with the same horror story of Google Calendar re-sending
email invitations to all attendees.

How to enable it:

In thunderbird go to Tools/Options/Advanced/Config Editor

Change the following settings:

calendar.google.enableAttendees false --- do not send
attendees to Google
calendar.google.enableEmailInvitations true --- allow
accepting invitations via email
calendar.google.sendEventNotifications false --- not sure what
this does, I set it to false to be safe

After changing the above setting, switch to Calendar tab in the left
pane (where you have Calendar/Mail/Tasks buttons) then right click on
your Google Calendar, and select proprties. There will be additional
setting there for EMail:. Set the EMail to the email address to which
invitations are being sent (ie your thunderbird email account)

After that you should be able to accept invitations and they will sync
to your Google Calendar. For me accepting reschedules did not work, I
had posted a patch that fixes that.

[Johnn Tan]

Thanks for the step-by-step instructions, Max.

Everything worked for me up until this point:

> After changing the above setting, switch to Calendar tab in the left
> pane (where you have Calendar/Mail/Tasks buttons) then right click on
> your Google Calendar, and select proprties. There will be additional
> setting there for EMail:. Set the EMail to the email address to which
> invitations are being sent (ie your thunderbird email account)

I don't see the extra Email field for my Google Calendar. I do see it
for the Home calendar. I followed the steps exactly as above. What
action actually triggers this to show up as an option, and what might
prevent it from doing so?

johnn