Tony Mechelynck wrote:
On 24/03/11 23:49, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Is there any documentation which doesn't assume you are using Windows or
that you knew the answer before you asked the question? I would like to
set up a site calendar and use a google calender, which would be a total
of three, the UID on the local machine, the shared calendar for the site
on all my machines, and my google calendar.
I do not have windows, exchange, Microsoft software, or any desire to
change that. I find (really) about 100 links telling me to select
new->calendar->network and the location of the calendar, but no way to
guess what location or format it wants, or where google stores their
calendar. I can skip that and run my own on site if I can find out what
the calendar server program is.
Is this (a) very hard, or (b) documented by Windows people and gurus?
In the development cycle, Lightning skipped Gecko 1.9.1 while SeaMonkey
skipped 1.9.2. This means that there is no Lightning version which
officially supports SeaMonkey 2.0.x. OTOH, the latest Lightning
nightlies are compatible with the latest SeaMonkey nightlies (SeaMonkey
2.1b3pre and maybe even 2.2a1pre), since both are based on Gecko 2.x.
If you want read-write access to a Google calendar, you need to install
the "Provider for Google Calendar" (gdata-provider.xpi) extension
compiled from the same sources as your Lightning version. Both can be
found together in the appropriate subfolder of
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/nightly/ (for
nightly builds) or of
ftp://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/releases/
(for release builds).
OTOH, if read-only access is enough, and especially if the Google
calendar owner shares it with "anyone", you can define your Google
calendar to Lightning as an ICS calendar *instead* of as a Google
calendar. In this case the Provider for Google Calendar is not necessary.
In both cases I recommend to use the "ICAL" URL found as follows: in the
drop-down found next to the calendar name on the Google "Calendar" page,
select "Share this Calendar", then near top left of the next page,
"Calendar details", and after that click right and "Copy Link Location"
on one of the two green ICAL buttons near the bottom. The "Private
Address" is for use only by the owner of the calendar while the
"Calendar Address" above it is for use by anyone who has been given
access to it. The difference between read-write access (with
gdata-provider.xpi installed) and read-only access (with or without it)
is that you select either "Google calendar" or "ICS/ICAL calendar" in
the first popup when "creating" a new calendar in Lightning.
See also https://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:GDATA_Provider
Goodness, what a complete and helpful reply. Thanks, finally getting back to
this. My phone shares the calendar, having Lightning do the same is highly
desirable.
--
Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
We are not out of the woods yet, but we know the direction and have
taken the first step. The steps are many, but finite in number, and if
we persevere we will reach our destination. -me, 2010
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