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[OX User] OX Webmail & .ics Meeting Invites
Rob Myroon
rob.myroon at tartan.ca
Thu Sep 28 16:15:53 CEST 2006
I am using the commercial version of OX. That's one thing I am never
sure about ... who is using the commercial version and who is using the
community version.
Rob
Fintec wrote:
> Thanks for your reply Rob,
>
> I am using community edition v0.8.2-2 which appears to be the newest
> according to the OX website. Where did you get v0.8.2-5?
>
> Following your same procedure my test user simply sees an email with
> an .ics attachment and the following message body:
> ------------------------------
> Confirmation
> The object no longer exists on the server.
>
> Begins: 28/09/2006 9:00 AM Pacific/Auckland
> Ends: 28/09/2006 10:00 AM Pacific/Auckland
>
> Location: Office
>
> Participants:
> TEST TEST
> Gavin
>
> Resources:
>
> Created by: Gavin at 27/09/2006 12:35 PM
>
> Comment:
> /servlet/showobject?object_id=6231&module=calendar
> ------------------------------
>
> The first 2 lines are interesting - maybe that is what should be my
> confirmation dialog box. Export doesn't work either - when I click on
> Export next to the ics attachment I get a pop up box with:
> ------------------------------
> Unable to add iCal.
> Details: Errot at line 9, column 1: Incomplete object
> ------------------------------
>
> Not sure where to go from here, anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Gavin
>
> On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 14:01 -0600, Rob Myroon wrote:
>> To be honest I didn't have to do anything ... it just worked. I am using
>> ox 0.8.2-5 and ox admin-web 1.1.3-0. Redhat Linux.
>>
>> I created an appointment in the calendar. I invited a test user. The
>> test user gets an e-mail from me that contains an .ics file. I log into
>> the webmail with the test user. In the webmail screen openexchange has a
>> confirmation dialog box with 2 radio buttons that say "Accept" and
>> "Deny" along with a Save button. I simply select "Accept" (the default),
>> press Save, and the appointment is added to the user's calendar.
>>
>> But there is also text at the end of the e-mail that looks like this:
>>
>> www.open-xchange.com/appointment.ics 0.36 k [text/calendar]
>> Download | View | Export
>>
>> If I click "Export" it adds the appointment to the user's calendar just
>> as if I clicked the Save button.
>>
>> Also, there is a link in the e-mail that will add the appointment to the
>> user's calendar. I believe this link is used to accept appointments
>> using a regular mail client. (I have a problem with this link but I
>> should start a new thread.)
>>
>> When I said I only tested .ics files created by openexchange I meant
>> that I haven't tried to create an appointment (meeting) in Outlook and
>> add the appointment to an ox user's calendar.
>>
>> Rob
>>
>>
>> Fintec wrote:
>>> Can you outline how you performed this test... When you say you have
>>> only tested .ics files created by OX how did you do this?
>>>
>>> Gavin
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 16:52 -0600, Rob Myroon wrote:
>>>> When I click on "Export" it works properly. A small window opens up
>>>> containing this text:
>>>>
>>>> iCal successfully added/updated. (APPOINTMENT, UPDATE, 0)
>>>>
>>>> But also in the Webmail there is a confirmation box with an Accept/Deny
>>>> radio button and a Save button that is used to confirm or reject the
>>>> appointment.
>>>>
>>>> But I have only tested .ics files created by ox.
>>>>
>>>> Rob
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Fintec wrote:
>>>>> It appears clicking "Export" next to the .ics attachment withing OX
>>>>> Webmail is meant to import the entry into the Groupware calendar but it
>>>>> doesn't work on our server.
>>>>>
>>>>> Webmail reports:
>>>>> Unable to add iCal.
>>>>> Details: unknown versit object: VTIMEZONE
>>>>>
>>>>> Webmail.log on server reports:
>>>>> Sep 25 14:24:41 zorb1.dmz.ftl openexchange: ERROR: uid=test_user:
>>>>> OXWorker/exportiCalToOx: Unable to export iCal to groupware:
>>>>> java.lang.Exception: unknown versit object: VTIMEZONE
>>>>> at
>>>>> com.openexchange.webmail.OXWorker.exportiCalToOX(OXWorker.java:270)
>>>>> at
>>>>> com.openexchange.webmail.Management.onAfterNASGetObject(Management.java:889)
>>>>> at com.openexchange.webmail.MDT.onAfterNASGetObject(MDT.java:69)
>>>>> at
>>>>> com.openexchange.thread.ComfireThread.fillVars(ComfireThread.java:687)
>>>>> at
>>>>> com.openexchange.thread.ComfireThread.checkVars(ComfireThread.java:618)
>>>>> at
>>>>> com.openexchange.thread.ComfireThread.validateSession(ComfireThread.java:544)
>>>>> at
>>>>> com.openexchange.thread.ComfireThread.run(ComfireThread.java:156)
>>>>> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
>>>>>
>>>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>>>>>
>>>>> Gavin
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 20:36 +0000, Fintec wrote:
>>>>>> Our users quite often receive .ics meeting invites from external
>>>>>> business partners or OX users using a FAT client. The problem is there
>>>>>> does not seem to be anyway to view or import the meeting invite into
>>>>>> their OX calendars even when using the OX webmail interface.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Have I missed something? What do other people do when they receive .ics
>>>>>> meeting invites in their OX inbox?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gavin
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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