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I played with the calendar, both the bedework web-client and the
Lightning plugin to Thunderbird since Friday.<br>
<br>
After playing for a while things start to look up.<br>
<br>
At the beginning I struggled with a lot of frustration, especially on
the web-client and had problems with
calendar import, so that I eventually gave up trying to import.<br>
<br>
<br>
I focused on multiple calendars, some shared some not, some affecting
busy-list, some not. Main objective being a valid free/busy list for
other users to see.<br>
<br>
At my present state of limited knowledge I would <br>
<ul>
<li>find that using both the web-client and the lightning plug-in for
making calendar entries is confusing</li>
<li>use the web-client
only to manage calendars (access control etc)<br>
</li>
<li>use Lightning or Sunbird to enter
events.</li>
</ul>
<br>
Here are some details, mainly for the calendar working group. My
apologies for being so wordy:<br>
<h3><small><b><big>Problems:</big></b></small></h3>
<h4><b>Web-client:
</b></h4>
<ol>
<li>free/busy list shows only full hours. Is this configurable? If I
schedule an event from 9:45 to 10:15, I am shown busy from 9:00 to
11:00. This is bad. Luckily, Lightning gives you more detail when you
invite to a meeting, but you have to go into zoom 200% or 400% to see
this.</li>
<li>I had problems with importing sunbird .ics files. Some
calendars imported
ok, others not.</li>
<li>I had an error on calendar import of a Sunbird iCAL file. This
gave
me
a full web-page of errors from tomcat, hibernate, ... which would not
go away. Even after killing
all instances of Firefox, logging into cal.triumf.ca gave me the same
error-page. I had to find and delete a cookie to become operational
again.</li>
<li>I cannot force the delete of a calendar which is not empty. I had
an imported calendar I wanted to get rid of. I had to delete event by
event until it was empty.<br>
</li>
<li>I am in event-view of a calendar, and select the plus on a day to
define
a new event. Then the "add Event" form does not remember where I came
from, i.e. I must select the calendar again. This is really annoying.</li>
<li>If I'm looking at the free/busy list of a different user in
week-view and change to month-view, it does not remember the user, but
displays my free/busy list.<br>
</li>
<li>I had a calendar, which I could delete because I was told it is
not empty, but I could convert it from calendar to folder and back,
which
I'm told I can only do when it is empty. Two days later I could delete
the calendar?????????<br>
</li>
<li>Cannot export a calendar: " An exception occurred: <em>Define
tag cannot set a null value for bean with id: calendar</em>". Not
important right now, but what am I doing wrong?<br>
</li>
</ol>
<h4><b>Lightning:</b></h4>
<ol>
<li>The effect of a new event on the free/busy list is hidden away in
the "Option/Show time as" menu and uses "free" as default. Is this
default configurable?</li>
<li>Is there a way in Lightning to see my own free/busy list?<br>
</li>
</ol>
<h3><b>Things to watch for:</b></h3>
Entering an event via the web-client, seems to put it by default into
the busy list. With lightning I'm not sure yet. My home machine seems
to be doing something different from my office machine. There is
obviously something I don't understand. It
would be really nice if one could configure this default behaviour on a
calendar by calendar basis or based on event category. Maybe that is
possible, but I haven't found it yet.<br>
<h4><b><b>Web-client:</b></b></h4>
<ol>
<li>In order to be able to write to a calendar from Lightning, you
have to give yourself access (manage calendars) with your username (in
addition to the owner access).<br>
</li>
</ol>
<h4><b><b>Lightning:</b></b></h4>
<ol>
<li>If you change access privileges to a calendar with the
web-interface, you have to restart existing Lightning / Sunbird
sessions. Privileges seem to be only checked at login.</li>
</ol>
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| Rolf Keitel, Ph.D., TRIUMF Tel: (604) 222-7453 |
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