Tickets :: Comment on [#12056] New Kronolith appt w/no invitees sync to iOS, result in greyed item in iOS Calendar

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Comment	>> I feel like this could benefit from some more explanation. >> >> If an invite is received on, AND is dealt with completely from the >> iOS device, this should work fine. The flow is something like this: >> >> 1. Device receives request. >> 2. Device creates a tentative event locally on the client's calendar. >> 3. User deals with invitation. >> 4. Device sends the EVENTRESPONSE request to the server. >> 5. Server parses the response, adds the new event to the user's >> calendar and sends the response email to the organizer. >> 6. The server then deletes the original request email from the INBOX, >> which triggers a SYNC on the INBOX. THIS IS THE IMPORTANT STEP. This >> is what causes the client to delete the tentative request. >> 7. Device requests SYNC for INBOX and Calendar, which causes new >> event to be added, and tentative event to be removed, along with the >> original request email. >> >> If you keep the original request email, the tentative event will >> NEVER be removed. This has nothing to do with the ORGANIZER field. >> The relevant field here is the (optional) MEETING_STATUS field, which >> we now always send thanks to iOS's broken behavior. > > Thank you Michael, very comprehensive responses. > > Can I ask a couple of questions to clarify this please? > > I am not certain whether what you are describing here what happens in > Exchange or in Horde. In our Horde environment, I do not see a lot of > these steps when a meeting invite is processed. Using your scenario > of dealing with an invite entirely from an iOS ActiveSync'ed device > this is what I see in H5: > > 1. Another user in our Horde system creates a meeting in Kronolith, > with me as attendee; > 2. I get an email in my iOS device's Horde inbox with a .ics (two > actually, but I understand why now, as this is due to Enhancement > 9854); > 3. There is nothing in my calendar at this point (either on the iOS > device or in Kronolith); > 4. When I accept a meeting is made in iOS, with ORGANIZER and > ATTENDEES intact; > 5. The new meeting is sync'ed from the iOS calendar to Horde, loses > ORGANIZER information, and appears in Kronolith; > 6. Horde pushes the event out to other ActiveSync devices as an > appointment, not a meeting. > > (Still on iOS device) Note also that when the event is added, and > after, I never see Accept / Decline / Maybe (which I thought was what > triggers the EVENTRESPONSE that you mention?) for these Kronolith > events. Work Exchange meetings I do. All I get is Add to Calendar > initially, and then if I want to remove it I can only delete. > > The invitation email is not deleted, I don't see a tentative meeting > on receipt of an invitation - the sequence you describe sounds like > how my work Exchange system works with ActiveSync rather than Horde. > Am I missing the meaning of your explanation, or is my Horde not > configured properly to provide this far more integrated calendaring > than what I am seeing? > > Simon
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