October 2008 - calendarserver-users

Zope Error on run
by Brendan Chard 14 Oct '08

14 Oct '08

I am running into an issue when trying to run Calendar Server for the first time. I ran ./run -s without issue and the setup script was able to download and install the require modules. However, after completing the steps in the README when I run ./run to start the server I get the following output. I am on a RHEL 4 box that has cPanel. I have installed my own copy of Python 2.6 at /opt/python. Python 2.4 is installed with cPanel and I did not want to overwrite that. Thanks for your help. _Brendan [root@server1 CalendarServer]# ./run exec python /root/calserver/Twisted/bin/twistd -n caldav -f /root/ calserver/CalendarServer/conf/caldavd-dev.plist -o ProcessType=Combined /root/calserver/zope.interface-3.3.0/build/lib.linux-i686-2.6/zope/ interface/interface.py:196: RuntimeWarning: Python C API version mismatch for module _zope_interface_coptimizations: This Python has API version 1012, module _zope_interface_coptimizations has version 1013. import _zope_interface_coptimizations Traceback (most recent call last): File "/root/calserver/Twisted/bin/twistd", line 20, in ? from twisted.scripts.twistd import run File "/root/calserver/Twisted/twisted/__init__.py", line 19, in ? from zope.interface import Interface File "/root/calserver/zope.interface-3.3.0/build/lib.linux-i686-2.6/ zope/interface/__init__.py", line 58, in ? _wire() File "/root/calserver/zope.interface-3.3.0/build/lib.linux-i686-2.6/ zope/interface/interface.py", line 809, in _wire classImplements(Attribute, IAttribute) File "/root/calserver/zope.interface-3.3.0/build/lib.linux-i686-2.6/ zope/interface/declarations.py", line 461, in classImplements spec = implementedBy(cls) TypeError: zope.declarations.Implements is not a type

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move local events to server
by John McAdams 10 Oct '08

10 Oct '08

I am interested in moving about a dozen local iCal calendars to OS X Server. They all reside in one users iCal. The calendars have hundreds of appointments on them and have all been given specific names and colors. Is there a way to simply move them from the local desktop to the server? Thanks, -- jmca

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Users and groups, but no teams. Really? I don´t get it...
by Jörg Roßdeutscher 09 Oct '08

09 Oct '08

Hello everybody, I have CalendarServer up and running. I have replaced the demo users by two real accounts. I can configure groups and ressources and… All is working fine. However — how is this thing intended to be used in teams in a small business environment? I don´t get it. Possibly I should describe what we are doing at the moment in iCal +WebDAV. We want to rebuild that features with DCS plus getting more flexible, because publishing ics files over webdav doesn´t allow multiple user writing into one calendar. At them moment everyone here (30 people) has a local calendar. They publish via webdav on our webserver. A little perl script I wrote samples those calendars every 5 minutes to team calendar files. People subscribe to that files. So, if „Carl“ creates an event in his calendar, this event after 5 minutes also appears in the created calendars "project managers" and "CEOs", prefixed with "Carl: ". Because Carl is member of those groups. Susan is member of "project managers", but not in "CEOs", so her events appear in the first calendar, but not in the second. {To be exact, Carl publishes a second calendar which is semi-private. When sampled to the team-calender, the content is replaced by "Carl private", so others can see Carl is not inhouse, but not why. But I thing this is out of scope here atm.} If I want to find a good time for a meeting of all project managers, in iCal I switch of all calendars except "project managers" and look for a gap. That works great - but, unfortunately, in example our reception can SEE when the boss is not here, but she can make or change no entries for him. That´s why we want to use DCS. I cannot find a way to create such "real" teams with iCal and CalendarServer. I looks like the "groups" create nothing visual in iCal. Here is my testing environment: I have setup my account "Jörg" in iCal/Mac/Leo. Then I took an old Powerbook, same config, and created a second worker, my colleague "Mr. Laptop". Good. Now our little company has two workers. Both can create their own calendar events in their own calendar. Now I want me and Mr. Laptop work in a team, the "IT Department". So I created a group "it_department", added us both as users and expected a folder "IT Department" appear magically somewhere in iCal, containing one or two calendars, Mr. Laptops and my events. It didn´t. Hm… I played with proxies to find out a person cannot have a proxy, only a ressource can. Then I played with ressources and locations. That allows us to share the same calendar, however, since we cannot see *who* made the event it ´s useless as a team calendar. "At the customer". Who is at the customer? Me? Mr. Laptop? I had expected that with one account I can see the calendars of every worker in the company in a separate calendar, r/w or r/o as I, the admin, configured it on the server, and I can switch on/off the people I am interested to see in iCal and can somehow (un-)mark the teams/ groups and find the same event in the calendar "Carl" and a different calendar "Project Managers". Groups. Teams. Units. Members. Find a time where all project managers are inhouse. Or the "Customer Miller Team". For me it doesn´t look like a group calendar. It looks like people can others have a look at their own and others calendar. And possibly change it. But it´s all about individuals, and the "group" feature is for giving access privileges, but not for real working groups. There are no working groups in DCS. Am I missing something? Am I wrong? Thanks in advance, Jörg

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Linuxport: runscript requires xpath / perl
by D. Wolf 09 Oct '08

09 Oct '08

Hello, i am not sure if this is the right mailing-list, but here is my comment. While playing around with the calendar server i noticed that "run -k/run -r" is not working, because the perl script xpath (module XML::XPath) was not installed. Install module XML::XPath or package and "run -k/run -r" works as expected. Best regards D. Wolf

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MIgration: From one CalDAV to another?
by Jakob Peterhänsel 08 Oct '08

08 Oct '08

Hi All, Anyone have any scripts to migrate users from one CalDAV server to another? Or other tips.. Jakob Peterhänsel "Be a part of the Love Generation - carry a smile, not a gun." - JP, May 2006 Email: jakob(a)hjemme.dk AIM: Marook Phone: +45 30787715

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new calendar homes
by Phillip Thomas 08 Oct '08

08 Oct '08

Hi - I notice that in a users calendar home, the first calendar created has its collection stored in a directory named "calendar," while subsequently created calendars have directory names that seem to resemble UIDs. This is a rather inconvenience when a user of a non- caldav client wants to subscribe to the calendar.... But, I have not noticed any problems with simply renaming/moving the directory to something else, say "calendar1," "calendar2," and so on. Can anyone confirm this (almost) triviality of the directory names? Is this question better posed on the dev list? Thanks. Phillip Thomas The Laboratory Schools Assistant System Administrator pthomas(a)ucls.uchicago.edu

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Re: [CalendarServer-users] Create Calendar Events - Web App
by Ben Mills 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

Ok that brings up a couple of questions: First, how do i actually send a HTTP PUT? And to what url do i send the request? My calendarserver can be seen locally at calserver:8008. Is that where I send the request to? And Assuming the example i put below is the correct format, what's the correct PUT path to put in PUT /home/lisa/calendars/events/ qwue23489.ics HTTP/1.1? PUT /home/lisa/calendars/events/qwue23489.ics HTTP/1.1 If-None-Match: * Host: calserver Content-Type: text/calendar Content-Length: xxxx BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Example Corp.//CalDAV Client//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20010712T182145Z-123401@example.com DTSTAMP:20080910T175147Z DTSTART:20080910T175147Z DTEND:20080910T195147Z SUMMARY:A Test END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR Thanks

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Create Calendar Events - Web App
by Ben Mills 06 Oct '08

06 Oct '08

I'd like to create new events on the calendar server for a group via my web application. Is there a way to create events in the calendar server via the command-line or PHP or Ruby on Rails? I've been searching for caldav implementations but have yet to get anything to create events on calendar server.

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