Comments on: Is Lightning broken or am I a n00b?

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:51:03 +0000

Thanks Dave, I’ve spent ages trying to figure this one out!

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:45:55 +0000

I think you can use the “remote calendar” with the ics file. You just need to add the calendar filename as “file:///C:/blahblah.ics”

This method works for me, anyway, in the newest release Lightning & TB 1.5.0.6.

By: Joey

Joey — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 14:35:10 +0000

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348028

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Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:09:06 +0000

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By: David Tenser

David Tenser — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 06:43:13 +0000

Martijn, you’re right in that the http support in Windows XP’s OpenFile dialog is an OS feature. What it does is downloading the URL to a temporary location and pass that temporary file to Lightning. In other words, you get a local copy of the file, and you’re not actually subscribing to the online calendar.

By: David Tenser

David Tenser — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 06:34:36 +0000

Simon, I’m using Windows. Adding a calendar works using the special Tb 3.0 builds at work. I’ll try again with the 2.0 builds when I get home. Still, the choice between WebDAV and CalDAV is confusing. Where’s iCal? .ics?

By: Gopalarathnam Venkatesan

Gopalarathnam Venkatesan — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 03:43:30 +0000

The “Import” tool is meant for importing a “.ics” file. This tool is found under the “Calendar” menu.
I’m still using an older version of Lightning and yet to check out the CVS version, so it does not work for me yet.

By: Simon Paquet

Simon Paquet — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 23:06:58 +0000

I tested this on both a current Sunbird nightly and on Thunderbird 1.5.0.6 and a Thunderbird 2.0a1 nightly both with Lightning and I cannot confirm this.

If I create a new remote calendar (WebDAV) and copy the URL for the Swedish Holiday file into the URL field, the calendar is added without any problems and I can see all the Swedish holidays.

The same goes for the Ubuntu release schedule.

This could be a linux issue, although I doubt it.

Can you verify that all calendars are shown as activated in the calendars tab beneath the minimonth.

By: Martijn

Martijn — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:22:08 +0000

By the way: adding your Swedish Holidays file through the New Calender button now also succeeded here. It just recognizes it and it is added as a new calendar.

When I try to remove some of the added events through this synchronisation Lightning however also tries to publish this change. Of course this does not succeed, so the file is placed in readonly mode and a warning message appears.
Of course it does not make much sense to edit a remote calendar file from another source. When it cannot be published next time you’d synchronize the changes will be overwritten anyway.

By: Martijn

Martijn — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:13:09 +0000

I just tried this with the latest nightly using TB 1.5.0.4. Using the menu Calendar > Import I succeeded in adding your Swedish calendar-file.

It asks me to select an ICS file. However, when I input a URL instead the file is downloaded and added to Lightning. But is this a feature of the operating system (Windows XP in my case) or of the software itself ? I guess this is an OS feature and Linux/Mac might handle this differently.

Now I just gotta find a way to get rid of these Swedish holidays… Importing them worked fine, but should I now delete these added appointments one by one ?

I deleted one of them, restarted Thunderbird, but it did not synchronise with the remote file. So this was a one time import. Still no answer on how to synchronize with a remote iCal-file.