Re: [Evolution-hackers] Categories

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam opengroupware us>]

On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 07:14 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> When saving a task or event over a CalDAV collection Evolution sends a
> CATEGORIES attribute like:
> CLASS:PUBLIC
> CATEGORIES:Favorites\,Gifts\,Goals/Objectives
> PERCENT-COMPLETE:0
> Looking at RFC2445 I'm pretty sure this is wrong.  Shouldn't it be:
> CLASS:PUBLIC
> CATEGORIES:Favorite,Gifts,Goals/Objectives
> PERCENT-COMPLETE:0

If I open a task in Evolution that looks like:

CATEGORIES:Competition,Business

It shows "Competition" as the only category in the Categories column of
the task list and "Business" as the only category in the Categories
field when viewing the task.  I assume this is not the intended
behavior?

Evolution 2.32.1

> From the RFC:
>    Description: This property is used to specify categories or subtypes
>    of the calendar component. The categories are useful in searching for
>    a calendar component of a particular type and category. Within the
>    "VEVENT", "VTODO" or "VJOURNAL" calendar components, more than one
>    category can be specified as a list of categories separated by the
>    COMMA character (US-ASCII decimal 44).
> 
>    Example: The following are examples of this property:
> 
>      CATEGORIES:APPOINTMENT,EDUCATION
> 
> Why is evolution escaping the comma?
> 
>      CATEGORIES:MEETING