[OGo-Users] ICal / CalDAV

[Helge Hess]

On Feb 16, 2007, at 15:43, Jonas wrote:
> That this is supposed to work, is the most important answer.  
> "Still" means: (a) I tried  some months before and  (b)  I  was  
> hoping  for a  working integration  since several years.

Well, you asked for _read_ access:
> it is still that I could not see any Web-UI calendar entries in  
> ICal.  Is this  supposed to change some when?

This is working very well since about 2003 ... Just subscribe the  
appropriate iCal resource and you are done.

> Now this is a new installation on a freshly installed Ubuntu server  
> with the trunk packages from 2 weeks before with a totally new  
> database and 2 users for testing in there.

OGo 1.1 is a good choice this this is always evolving.

> If  I add events with  ab external  calendar  (not necessarily  
> ICal), it will report this back and replicate.

Now you switch to modification of the server datastore. This is a  
more difficult topic which was explained in detail in the past (just  
check the archives). Most issues are due to the protocol and its not  
recommended to use iCal-over-HTTP with modifications unless you very  
well know what you are doing.

This will change once CalDAV support matures in the clients (and  
OGo). MacOS 10.5 iCal.app features CalDAV and it works reasonably  
well for me, with a few OGo "CalDAV" bugs pending.

> It will not be visible in the Web-UI though. If I add an event in  
> the Web-UI, it will not show up in ICal.

If an event added in the WebUI doesn't show up, you are most likely  
not subscribing the appropriate resource. This was explained plenty  
of times in the past.

> Additionally, if I add attendees, those tend to vanish shortly  
> later if I look at a downloaded  ICS file.

Don't know what you refer to here, but its important that all  
contacts (and accounts!) have a proper email set when you use iCalendar.

> I am trying with the newest version of Sunbird, using: https:// 
> hostname/zidestore/user/Calendar/calendar.ics
>
> Any suggestions?

Well, with Sunbird CalDAV works quite well for me. With one major bug  
I wrote about a few weeks ago.

Greets,
   Helge
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