Provider for Google Calendar 0.4 doesn't seem to support the invitation of attendees any more

[s.mezger]

Hi,
with the old version of the provider (0.3) the invitation of guests
worked fine and Google send out reminder mails for the event however
with the new provider I can't see the guests in the google calendar
that I've insert in Thunderbird.
Am I missing something? Is there a solution for this?

Thanks,
Sebastian

[Philipp Kewisch]

Since version 0.4 of the provider, attendees were disabled due to a
Google Server issue. I just added a FAQ entry about how to fix it.

In short, set calendar.google.enableAttendees = true, but be cautious
if you also accept meetings onto your google calendar.

Philipp

[gdecaires]

I've tried making the configuration changes on my Mac in Thunderbird
and it still has the "Send attendees invitations via email" check box
greyed out. Is there anything else that I can try? Or should I revert
to the earlier versions?

[Philipp Kewisch]

The checkbox is always greyed out, I believe this has always been that
way. This is due to the reason that Google handles invitations
differently. Unfortunately, I have found that support via API is not
really complete. If you cant wait, there are a few other things you
can try out, but ymmv and you might accidentally spam attendees:

* calendar.google.sendEventNotifications = true (always sends
invitations on updates and additions)

* Modify the source: calGoogleCalendar.js, get sendItipInvitations to
return true. This will enable the checkbox, but I don't know what the
result will be.

Philipp