event XML 1.1 (fix recurrances)
Joon Radley
joon at radleys.co.za
Mon Jan 29 09:06:08 CET 2007
Hi Martin,
What part of "a new object is created" do you not understand? The moment you
hit step 4 a second object is created with the new attendees.
In the current exception structure only supports deleted recurrences. This
works 100% between Kontact and Toltec.
Best Regards
Joon Radley
Radley Network Technologies CC
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: kolab-format-bounces at kolab.org
> [mailto:kolab-format-bounces at kolab.org] On Behalf Of Martin Konold
> Sent: 26 January 2007 01:43 AM
> To: kolab-format at kolab.org
> Subject: Re: event XML 1.1 (fix recurrances)
>
> Am Donnerstag, 18. Januar 2007 09:51 schrieb Joon Radley:
>
> Hi Joon,
>
> > The modification of attendees and attachments creates a new object,
> > even though the Outlook GUI hides this from you. The
> linking between
> > these objects has changed and has given problems since its
> > introduction in Outlook XP. In Outlook 2003 SP2 has this issue
> > stabilized. I have no idea yet if this works he same in
> Outlook 2007.
> >
> > So basically if you introduce those 2 tags in he sub event it
> > basically becomes impossible to reliability convert between
> Outlook and Kolab-XML.
>
> I don't understand this.
>
> Assuming that this separation does happen.
>
> How do you deal with this problem in your current version of
> the Toltec connector?
>
> I will try to explain it with a realistic use-case:
>
> 1. Alice enters a weekly recurring event with attendees in
> the calendar of her boss Bob using OL/Toltec Connector.
>
> 2. This event is synchronized to the Kolab server using the
> old XML format.
>
> 3. Bob, who happens to be a KDE Kontact user is
> reading/synchronizing his calendar folder.
>
> 4. Alice then changes one attendee for the third occurance in
> Outlook. (To my knowledge Toltec Connector does not prevent
> the user from doing this and this operation is offered by the
> Outlook GUI to the user)
>
> 5. From an Outlook and Alice's end users point of view the
> operation (changing an attendee) was perfectly legal and
> successful. After all this change is reflected correctly in
> the user interface.
>
> 6. According to your observations the newly created exception
> is now separated ("creates a new object") from the original
> recurring event.
>
> 7. Then Toltec Connector tries to synchronize the modified
> event including its recurrance rules and its newly introduced
> exception date to the server
>
> Q1: How does the Toltec Connector deal with this situation today?
>
> Q2: How is step 4 expressed in the generated XML using todays
> Kolab XML Format?
>
> Q3: What will KDE Kontact see after step 7?
>
> Q4: In which respect is the old format superior to the new proposal?
>
> > He has somehow published
> > a new standard of the Kolab-XML format that totally breaks
> > interoperability between the existing clients.
>
> How does the new format break interoperability?
>
> (I claim that assuming your observations are correct that the
> interoperability was already broken before!)
>
> Regards,
> -- martin
>
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