add attendees when importing a ICS file

[Azulinho]

I received the following ICS invite

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
METHOD:REQUEST
PRODID:Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
VERSION:2.0
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Romance Standard Time
BEGIN:STANDARD
DTSTART:16010101T030000
TZOFFSETFROM:+0200
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
DTSTART:16010101T020000
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0200
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3
END:DAYLIGHT
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
ORGANIZER;CN="Hansen, Sune":MAILTO:Sune.Hansen@acme.com
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=TRUE;CN=tnielse3@c
sc.com:MAILTO:tnielse3@acme.com
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=TRUE;CN=Kent Micha
elsen (kmichaelsen@acme.com):MAILTO:kmichaelsen@acme.com
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Costa, Jor
ge":MAILTO:Jorge.Costa@acme.com
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=TRUE;CN=Martyn K H
olden (mholden6@acme.com):MAILTO:mholden6@acme.com
DESCRIPTION;LANGUAGE=en-US:All,\n\nThis is a Placeholder for next week’s
TOI –\nWebex and Con Call details will follow.\n\n/Sune\n\n
SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-US:SnapCreator TOI
DTSTART;TZID=Romance Standard Time:20121024T113000
DTEND;TZID=Romance Standard Time:20121024T133000
UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000000E082784ADAADCD01000000000000000
01000000078F78DCB98419F4889FE6A4B96A6DAF2
CLASS:PUBLIC
PRIORITY:5
DTSTAMP:20121019T071532Z
TRANSP:OPAQUE
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
LOCATION;LANGUAGE=en-US:Webex and Con Call
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-APPT-SEQUENCE:0
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-OWNERAPPTID:2104731612
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:TENTATIVE
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:BUSY
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INSTTYPE:0
X-MICROSOFT-DISALLOW-COUNTER:FALSE
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:REMINDER
TRIGGER;RELATED=START:-PT15M
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

which I imported into google calendar using

[535]$ cat /usr/share/applications/import-ICS-into-google-calendar.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Import ICS file into Google Calendar
GenericName=Import ICS file into Google Calendar
X-GNOME-FullName=Import ICS file into Google Calendar
Comment=Import ICS file into Google Calendar
Exec=gcalcli --cal "mycalendar" import %U
Icon=chromium-browser
Terminal=false
TryExec=chromium-browser
Type=Application
MimeType=application/x-calendar;x-scheme-handler/ics;
Categories=Network;
X-AppInstall-Keywords=calendar

it shows up with the:

• WHERE bits:
  Webex and Con Call
• TEXT bits:

All,

This is a Placeholder for next week’s TOI –
Webex and Con Call details will follow.

/Sune

but the atendee list is missing

[Azulinho]

awesome tool by the way!

[Azulinho]

I achieved part of it,
the following bit adds the organizer

1179 if hasattr(ve, 'description'):
1180 DebugPrint("DESCRIPTION: %s\n" % ve.description.value)
1181 if verbose:
1182 print "Description:\n%s" % ve.description.value
1183 event.content = atom.Content(text=ve.description.value)
1184
1185 if hasattr(ve, 'organizer'):
1186 DebugPrint("ORGANIZER: %s\n" % ve.organizer.value)
1187 if verbose:
1188 print "organizer:\n%s" % ve.organizer.value
1189 event.organizer = atom.Content(text=ve.organizer.value)

however to add the attendee the code needs to loop through the list of attendees and I haven't figured out how to do this yet in your code

[insanum]

I like this. If you're still pursuing this please submit a pull request.

[insanum]

@tresni's pull request was merged. Please use the latest gcalcli code from git.

[lasombra]

I am very sorry to comment on this but I'm seeing an issue where when I import a file all attendees are invited as well to the imported event on my calendar. Can this be optional during import please?

[tresni]

My understanding is that this should be controlled by the "sendNotifications" url parameter. This parameter defaults to false and we don't override that (at least not as far as I can see.) Not sure there is anything else we can do this...

[lasombra]

Maybe an explicit option to import to not include attendees?

I don't know what is causing this either but when I import a new .ics
files, generated from Google Calendar, all the attendees receive a
notification and, as they accept or refuse the meeting, I see their
acceptance or refusal on my calendar as it was the primary source.

On 29/04/2016 23:13 , Brian Hartvigsen wrote:

My understanding is that this should be controlled by the
"sendNotifications" url parameter
https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/v3/reference/events/insert#parameters.
This parameter defaults to false and we don't override that (at least
not as far as I can see.) Not sure there is anything else we can do this...

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[lasombra]

I can test whatever's needed in case there's a need.

[samsunix]

lasombra - mind to share your ics file and method you use to import it to google calendar. I am stuck here.

Here's mine: https://pastebin.com/fv81LFsw when importing manually by using google calendar web client, it's still missing attendees

Thank you very much in advance.

[jahagirdar]

Is there any update on this? I installed gcalcli today, imported my first calender invite via the following mutt macro
macro attach ,c "gcalcli --reminder=10 --detail_url=short --calendar='Dyumnin' import\n"

and it looks like it sent out invites to other participants...

[lasombra]

@samsunix Unfortunately it took me 1 year to see your update.

I used the following command: gcalcli import --calendar="my@calendar.com" calendar_test_issue.ics

I still see the issue. Here's the screenshot, https://imgur.com/a/aRCWB6O. Notice that both guests are "awaiting"

[lasombra]

This issue still persists. Should I file a new issue to track this down?