Calendar Talk:GDATA Provider

Offline Access to Google Calendar

Question It is great to see that you are producing this plug-in and I love the functionality it already has.

I wanted to confirm what your plans were for allowing access to Google calendar appointment when Lightning is offline/the computer has not internet access.

I often need to be able to play with my calendar in this mode on my laptop and it seems that your plugin requires access to the internet currently?

Answer This is something that will be supported by lightning/sunbird natively. See bug 366923.

Events past 4pm in Google Calendar don't display in Day View

QUESTION When in Day View in Lightning (w/i Thunderbird) I cannot see any appts from Google Calendar that were made after 5pm (i.e. 4:45 and earlier displays correctly). If I switch to Week view or Month view, the appts display correctly, but switch back to Day view and they disappear inside Lightning. When I switch back to Week or Month view and move the appt up to any time from 4:45pm-earlier, then switch back to Day view, it displays correctly. If from Day view, I move that appt that I moved up to 4:45pm back to 7pm (where it originally was), it will move it correctly in Day view and display correctly until I change the view and come back to Day view and it disappears again.

Answer Fixed in v0.3

SMS alerts

Question do you plan to implement support for sms gcalendar alerts in future releases? thanks for the great add-on! Answer Yes, bug 389088.

Categories

Question Google Calendar doesn't support categories, does it? Answer No, the server doesn't support category entries. We have worked around the issue though, categories should work now.

Task support

Question I get it that Google Calendar doesn't support tasks per se, but Google does somewhat support tasks - at least in the Google Deskbar. Any chance to get to those objects? mcicogni 05:23, 24 October 2007 (PDT) Answer Unfortunately, since Google doesn't support tasks through the API, there is no easy way to support them. The tasks in google deskbar (?) are probably stored locally.

Question Google Calendar just came out with support for tasks. I'm not sure on any API details or anything, but it seems like it would be usable. Sarixe 04:47, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Multiple Calendars and Read/Write Access

Question Is it in the pipeline to support multiple different calendars (i.e ones shared by colleagues) and the read/write privileges?

Answer This is already possible. Just add your colleagues XML link, the same as you add your own. When asked for a password, enter your own google calendar data (also username!). Make sure you have added your colleagues calendar via the Google Calendar UI prior to doing so.

Atendees/Backup Function?

Question Hi, GDATA Provider it´s an excellent tool, but why doesn´t allow send email invitation to atendees when created in a Google Calendar? Can this tool creates a new calendar in Google and upload the local events? This can be use as a Backup.

Thanks!

Answer You can enable the calendar.google.sendEventNotifications pref, but do so on your own risk. you will be sending notifications on every add/update to all attendees.

Incompatible extension

I am using the latest Sunbird nightly ("Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3pre) Gecko/20090809 Calendar/1.0pre") from ftp.mozilla.org, but I cannot enable the extension (the current version from AMO, "Provider for Google Calendar" 0.5.2): even with extensions.checkCompatibility set to false, it installs in "disabled" mode, and I cannot enable it ("Incompatible with Sunbird 1.0pre"). Apparently it has maxVersion = minVersion = 0.9 (for Sunbird).