event XML 1.1 (fix recurrances)

Joon Radley joon at radleys.co.za
Wed Jan 31 16:17:56 CET 2007


Hi Ger,

> So as far as I understand it, OL in both version uses "standard" MAPI
> techniques like attachments to store the changes. I do not see why that
> should make it impossible to reliably convert between OL and Kolab-XML.

This is the information I have in my documentation and as the developer who
did the initial investigation for us no longer works for us, I will have a
look again at the recurrence object.

Best Regards

Joon Radley
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: kolab-format-bounces at kolab.org [mailto:kolab-format-
> bounces at kolab.org] On Behalf Of Gerd v. Egidy
> Sent: 31 January 2007 03:15 PM
> To: kolab-format at kolab.org
> Cc: 'Martin Konold'; Joon Radley
> Subject: Re: event XML 1.1 (fix recurrances)
> 
> Hi Joon,
> 
> > > 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)
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I tried to reproduce the problems with "new objects" you are
> describing: I installed Outlook 2000 SP3, created a new profile with a
> regular empty pst and put one recurring event in it. Then I changed the
> attendees of one occurrence.
> 
> When observing the MAPI structures with OutlookSpy I could see that
> there is no new IMessage created in the folder (see screenshot
> "folder.png"), the folder still contains just one object.
> 
> When looking at the IMessage object of the whole event I could see that
> it now contains an attachment which wasn't there before changing the
> attendees (see screenshot "attachment.png"). I was able to open this
> attachment using OpenAttach - it is the same thing that appears if you
> look at the IMessage object of the changed occurrence.
> 
> I compared this behavior agains Outlook 2003 SP2. It creates an
> attachment for such changes too. The only difference I could see is
> that there are some additional properties in the attachment.
> 
> So as far as I understand it, OL in both version uses "standard" MAPI
> techniques like attachments to store the changes. I do not see why that
> should make it impossible to reliably convert between OL and Kolab-XML.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Gerd






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