Google calendar not showing when accepting incoming invitations on a different email-account

[Ruediger Muetze]

I use Thunderbird 2.0.0.17, Lightning 0.9 and Provider for Google
Calendar .0.5.1. However, my Google Calendar is not showing up when
replying to invitations in Thunderbird. The dialog box is in fact
empty. I have no other calendar configured in Lightning. If I
configure an additional local calendar, invitations are placed into
this calendar when accepting them without any further dialog showing
up. So I assume, the local calendar is the only one visible to
Thunderbird when handling invitations.
I receive the invitations on an account different from my google
account. Is this the problem? In an M$ driven company I'd be very
happy to have my Google Calendar handle the invitations sent by my
colleagues using Outlook. Thank you for any information on this.

Regards

Ruediger

[Mike]

Ruediger,

It's not possible to accept invitations with lightning / Google
provider. Here is a clip from the website:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4631

"Note that it is not possible to accept an invitation received via
email onto your Google Calendar. To correctly use invitations, please
be sure to enable the "Automatically add invitations to my calendar"
option, invitations will then automatically be shown in the
application's invitation manager or in the calendar views."


To accept invitations from Gmail, you have to enable the above option,
and google handles it. There's no way to get invitations from other
email accounts (like corporate exchange) to lightning except by
manually adding them.

I'm with you on this, I wish it was different too. Hopefully this
could be fixed in upcoming releases...


Thanks,

Mike

[Vince]

------- Comment #36 From Marcel Berteler 2008-10-15 05:28:24
PST -------

they can be found in Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> General -> Config
Editor

Type in Google and you will get the Calendar.Google prefs.

set enableEmailInvitations TRUE

Only after you have done this, can you setup the email address for the
Google
calendar by right-click -> properties on the Google calendar.

Only once this is done will the calendar appear in the list.....

[Mike]

Vince,

Thanks for the reply. Works great.

For me, the config editor is under Edit > Preferences > Advanced >
General > Config Editor. I'm using TB 2.0.0.17 under Linux....

[Ruediger Muetze]

Hi Vince,

> Type in Google and you will get the Calendar.Google prefs.
>
> set enableEmailInvitations TRUE
>
> Only after you have done this, can you setup the email address for the
> Google
> calendar by right-click -> properties on the Google calendar.

thanks a lot for this! As for Mike, this worked well in TB 2.0.0.17 on
Linux for me, too. But there is a but. When I accepted the first
incoming invitation coming in from a colleague using outlook on my
corporate account, google calendar created a *new* invitation for this
event, replacing my colleagues name with mine as the organizer *and*,
most disturbingly, sent out *new* invitations to all attendees, showing
my (private) Googlemail address. Though I received a lot of positive
replies to this, I'm not totally happy ;o(
So please be careful in case you just give that option a try yourself...

Regards

Ruediger

[Matt]

> thanks a lot for this! As for Mike, this worked well in TB 2.0.0.17 on
> Linux for me, too. But there is a but. When I accepted the first
> incoming invitation coming in from a colleague using outlook on my
> corporate account, google calendar created a *new* invitation for this
> event, replacing my colleagues name with mine as the organizer *and*,
> most disturbingly, sent out *new* invitations to all attendees, showing
> my (private) Googlemail address. Though I received a lot of positive
> replies to this, I'm not totally happy ;o(
> So please be careful in case you just give that option a try yourself...

Happened to me too -- very embarrassing! I reverted the conf options
back. Hopefully this will work better in the future release..

[Philipp Kewisch]

Now you see why I took out that "feature" of accepting invitations :-)
I'm sorry that this happened for you. Just wanted to remind you that
the only way to fix this issue is to wait for Google to modify the API
so that I can freely set the organizer, id and sequence of the event.

Philipp