Read access on calendar folders and kontact

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Montag, 14. November 2005 13:43 schrieb T. Ribbrock:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 10:24:39AM +0100, Martin Konold wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 9. November 2005 17:01 schrieb T. Ribbrock:
> > > One of the requirements is that one can read other folks' calendars -
> > > i.e., not only "free/busy", but the actual entries.
> >
> > This is possible via calendar folder ACLs.
>
> I.e. the ones one can set via the "Properties" tag of a folder in
> kontact, right? I got that one right, then... ;-)

Yes.

> > >   part is possible. However, if I do so, all people with read access
> > > can read *all* appointments, even if I have marked them "private" or
> > > "confidential" in korganizer - why?
> >
> > This private marking is some OL heritage and not really useful. I wish KO
> > would not have it.
>
> Agreed - if we're going to roll out this solution I just *know* that
> this will cause me trouble, no matter how well I write it down in some
> help doc... :-/ At least I know now that it doesn't have any function.

If an appointment is marked "invisible" it should not be included in the 
generated freebusy list.

> > Instead tell people to use another calendar folder with different access
> > permissions for private appointments.
>
> Hm - that's an option, of course. I have to look into how this affects
> the whole "free/busy" thing (as the private appointments might need to
> show up as "busy" as well).

As Martin already mentioned, there is a freebusy policy.
The default is to have each calendar folder included into the freebusy system.