Strange import appointments

ed44 2021-08-26 13:01:46 UTC #1

Hi,
I’m migrating from 1.8 Community to 20.1.20210503 Community.
After importing a .ics, 2 stranges behaviors occured :

an appointment where I’m invited is now “created by me” : the organisator can’t modify them
all appointments are created whith a new participant type “user accounts” with my name. The result is an entry without a CN in a .ics export like ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;CUTYPE=UNKNOWN;RSVP=TRUE;X-EGROUPWARE-UID=0:urn:uuid:

Can you help me fix those problems.
Best regards.
ED

StefanU 2021-08-26 14:01:50 UTC #2

Hi Eric.

Current is: 21.1.20210723

Please upgrade.

Actually, we don’t want to have to look for errors in such an old version.

Or maybe that’s how you try to make the migrations???

Stefan

ed44 2021-08-27 07:07:20 UTC #3

Hi Stefan,
Same behavior in version 21.1.20210723.

an appointment I’m invited can’t be modified by the “organisator”
a new participant type
Eric

StefanU 2021-08-27 11:59:44 UTC #4

Hi Eric.

Is the organisator the owner of the appointment?

That doesn’t necessarily have to be the case. First of all, the owner is authorised to edit. Further rights are regulated via the ACLs.

Please provide screenshots.

Once again the question: Why do you try to import ics? What is the use case?

Stefan

ed44 2021-08-27 12:58:17 UTC #5

Hi Stefan,

in 1.8 the organisator is the owner of the appointment :

invitation_admin_1.PNG735x329 36 KB
after importing the invite, I’m the owner :

invitation_admin_4.PNG819x595 18.8 KB
the organisator cant modify the entry :

invitation_admin_5.PNG829x580 15 KB

I use the export/import because our process was not able to convert 1.8 tables into recent community version.

StefanU 2021-08-27 13:33:08 UTC #6

Hi Eric.

Import as “Admin Egroupware” ?:

grafik

In principle, you can upgrade a 1.8 to a current version. In-place or as an import into a new installation.

If you can’t do the upgrade from 1.8 => 21.1 yourself:
We offer support for this:

Usually it is faster and cheaper if we support you. And it costs you few nerves

Stefan

ed44 2021-08-27 14:03:54 UTC #7

Stefan,
There is no dialog box during import where I could select the owner.
I suppose it is done with my account.

StefanU 2021-08-27 14:31:10 UTC #8

You can define/use your own import definition:

Stefan

ed44 2021-08-27 14:59:03 UTC #9

If I create a new definition, I cant choose “importer’s personnal”.
The only choices are :

select (same as in standard import definition)
a specific user -> can’t be usefull if this definition is used by everyone …
Eric

StefanU 2021-08-27 19:41:05 UTC #10

Hi Eric.

I checked this again in a fresh EGroupware CE:

Start wizard, then

Address book
Addressbook vCard import
Name
Unicode (utf-8)

the I see:

Stefan

StefanU 2021-08-28 08:20:40 UTC #11

Argh… YOU talk about calendar.

And you are right. This option is not available for ical calendar import.

But:
If you use the standard ical calendar import definition, the owner is set to the user who import the ics. And this user then have the edit rights to the appointment.

This is no problem for personal appointments.

But if there are appointments in which there are other internal participants and possibly even appointments are delegated… This can never work 100 per cent.
And that’s not because of EGroupware, but because of the thing itself.

I also don’t think it’s a good idea to let users import their own appointments. Only if they are exclusively their own appointments.

Stefan