Suddenly cannot accept invites to a particular calendar
Hello!
I have used Thunderbird + lightning for quite a long time. Some time ago, I set up Provider for Exchange ActiveSync & TbSync.
I have two Outlook accounts and one calendar for each account; both are Office 365-based. When calendar invitations are sent to me, I used to be able to "accept" them and subsequently add them to either of the two calendars of my choosing.
However, I recently started noticing that when I want to accept an invite in order to be able to add it to a calendar, only one of the calendars shows up!
I'm running Fedora 30 and using Thunderbird 60.8.0 (64-bit), with the following extensions:
Attach from Clipboard AttachmentExtractor Continued Awesome Auto Archive Display Mail User Agent FiltaQuilla Lightning Lightning Calendar Tabs Lightning Invitation Notifier Mail Merge Mail Redirect Mail Summaries MailHops Manually sort folders MinimizeToTray Reanimated Provider for Exchange ActiveSync Remove Duplicate Messages (Alternate) Search Results Sort By ate Not Relevance Send Later TbSync Thunderbird Conversations ThunderHTMLedit XNote+++
I do want to note that unaccepted invites *do* show up on my calendar temporarily and automatically, but I believe this is because Outlook reads them automatically. Once emails with the invitations are moved out of my inbox, the calendar entry disappears from Lightning. For this reason, I want to be able to manually accept the invites.
I know this is not a lot to go on, but I don't know what else I should be looking for / at.
Thanks for any help!!
Chosen solution
Ok, I realized the problem. Pretty embarrassing, and I don't know why I didn't see it before...
Under Calendar > Properties (edit calendar), there's a field labeled "Email:". For whatever reason, all of these were blank when they should have contained the email address of the associated account.
I changed this from blank to the email address that was associated with the account, and presto - it worked.
So, a few months on, problem solved!
Thanks for the efforts to help, I appreciate it.
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check that the add-on are not disabled (updates can disable them pending them being updated)
check the status of the calendars themselves. In the calendar list on the right look at the icons is there a yellow triangle for instance. Or is it deselected?
Hi Matt,
Thank you so much for taking the time to respond and try to help me troubleshoot this.
I checked the add-on settings, and it is active. The calendars all look active, too. It's strange because I can go into Lightning and create an event and save that to any calendar - and yet I cannot process / accept an emailed invite into that same calendar.
ok invite yourself to some stuff for troubleshooting.
Open the error console in Thunderbird Ctrl+Shift + J Clear it (trash icon). Click the accept for an invite.
What error/errors turn up in the error console? The error console is messy, so you might need to do it a couple of times to be sure the error and your actions are exactly aligned.
Thanks very much. I'm sorry for my delay, I was laid out sick these last days.
I ran the error console, and I did not receive any errors that preceded this issue I'm having. After adding to calendar, I didn't get any errors that were relevant.
I did verify that I am able to add an invite to the one (and only) calendar in the "Select Calendar" prompt; once saved, I can then go into Lightning and edit one or all occurrences, and re-save them to the calendar that's missing in the "Select Calendar" box. My issue seems constrained to be limited to the second account's calendar not being displayed in that box "Select Calendar" box.
Just for complete certainty, and in case this helps anyone else, I include a screenshot.
Thanks!
Chosen Solution
Ok, I realized the problem. Pretty embarrassing, and I don't know why I didn't see it before...
Under Calendar > Properties (edit calendar), there's a field labeled "Email:". For whatever reason, all of these were blank when they should have contained the email address of the associated account.
I changed this from blank to the email address that was associated with the account, and presto - it worked.
So, a few months on, problem solved!
Thanks for the efforts to help, I appreciate it.