Group Calendars

[Thomas Baker-4]

Hello,

I checked out the latest svn build of CalendarServer, built it on  
Fedora 11, and most things seem to be working fine. One problem I am  
experiencing is when I try to access a group calendar. According to  
the documentation I've found, I should be able to log in using an  
account of a user that is a member and specify the group calendar in  
the URL like https://server/principals/groups/groupname. The problem  
I'm seeing is that an iCal 4.0 client gets an error that reads "The  
calendar server has not specified a calendar home for account at " and  
then gives the uuid url for the group I'm trying to access.

Any clue as to what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,

tjb
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[Markus Stürmer]

Hi Thomas!

See e.g.:

http://trac.calendarserver.org/ticket/330

Group calendars have been disabled; one of the main reasons seem to be  
implications for scheduling. The other that iCal doesn't support it…  
*sigh*

Of course it is quite annoying not to have them - the only workaround  
I know is to create dummy users for each group and make the group  
write-proxy for that user. If someone has better ideas, I'd be  
interested.

Regards,
Markus



Am 21.09.2009 um 22:01 schrieb Thomas Baker:

>
> Hello,
>
> I checked out the latest svn build of CalendarServer, built it on  
> Fedora 11, and most things seem to be working fine. One problem I am  
> experiencing is when I try to access a group calendar. According to  
> the documentation I've found, I should be able to log in using an  
> account of a user that is a member and specify the group calendar in  
> the URL like https://server/principals/groups/groupname. The problem  
> I'm seeing is that an iCal 4.0 client gets an error that reads "The  
> calendar server has not specified a calendar home for account at "  
> and then gives the uuid url for the group I'm trying to access.
>
> Any clue as to what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>
> tjb
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[Dameon Wagner]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:56:22PM +0200, Markus Stürmer scribbled
 in "Re: [CalendarServer-users] Group Calendars":
> Hi Thomas!
>
> See e.g.:
>
> http://trac.calendarserver.org/ticket/330
>
> Group calendars have been disabled; one of the main reasons seem to
> be implications for scheduling. The other that iCal doesn't support
> it… *sigh*

Not being an iCal user I'm sure that's probably correct, although I
can't see why it would be an issue, surely the caldav client just sees
a caldav calendar?  Anyway, seems to work OK with sunbird/iceowl
without issues.

> Of course it is quite annoying not to have them - the only
> workaround I know is to create dummy users for each group and make
> the group write-proxy for that user. If someone has better ideas,
> I'd be interested.

Which is a nasty kludge/hack if you ask me.  Especially if you're
(going to be) using LDAP as a directory.  One of the things I really
like about DCS is that it does/did group calendars, and it's certainly
one of _the_ major reasons why I was asked to test it out, once it
found it's way into Debian at least...

I for one don't need all the attendee/scheduling features for group
calendars, but I'd like to know that when DCS gets updated in the
Debian repositories, and I apt-get upgrade, that all our groups won't
suddenly disappear.

Cheers.

Dameon.


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[odinm]

I'm using group calendars successfully with iCal 3 and 4 in Leopard  
and Snow Leopard using DCS on Debian Lenny.  I'm using the process  
where you enter the url for the group calendar in ical in the form  
of:  http://calendar_server:8008/principals/groups/group_name/

Once the group is setup, group users can add sub-group calendars.  
Haven't played around with whether group members can then be limited  
for the sub-group calendars.

This works just fine, though it is not considered a clean method based  
on the comments in the ticket identified in another response (  http://trac.calendarserver.org/ticket/330 
  ).  I've been doing it this way since shortly after Leopard came out  
without any issues (DCS on linux server, first Suse, now Debian).

On Sep 21, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Thomas Baker wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I checked out the latest svn build of CalendarServer, built it on  
> Fedora 11, and most things seem to be working fine. One problem I am  
> experiencing is when I try to access a group calendar. According to  
> the documentation I've found, I should be able to log in using an  
> account of a user that is a member and specify the group calendar in  
> the URL like https://server/principals/groups/groupname. The problem  
> I'm seeing is that an iCal 4.0 client gets an error that reads "The  
> calendar server has not specified a calendar home for account at "  
> and then gives the uuid url for the group I'm trying to access.
>
> Any clue as to what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>
> tjb
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