Re: [Evolution] Can't save new Calendar

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 12:51 +0100, Paul Leyland wrote:
>  Searched for this one in the archives and with Google but can't find
> anything relevant.
>
>
> A new cow-orker started today.  I'd already set up her Evolution (v2.2.2
> on Gnome 2.0 + UltraSparc Solaris 5.9) and all was going well.  She's
> accustomed to Outlook and was having no trouble following what was going
> on.  Kudos to the dev team.   However ...
>
> I tried to show her how to create a new calendar (note: new calendar,
> *not* new calendar item) so she could organize her appointments, etc.
> No matter what I tried, I could not make the Ok button active.  It
> remained greyed-out regardless and flatly refused to create the new
> calendar.  We even tried logging out and back in again, to no avail.

Rings a bell...

> This is the first time I've ever seen this behaviour.   Other people,
> including myself, have no problems with Evolution calendar creation on
> the same platform.  I've checked filesystem permissions and so forth ---
> no noticeable difference (other than ownership being appropriate to the
> account holder, of course).
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions for a fix or for what I should check
> next?

...though I never have come across this issue on Evo 2.2.x, yet.

There is a known issue (Evolution 2.6), that results in the very same
behavior -- the OK button never getting sensitive, when creating a new
Address Book or Calendar. Again, I don't recall this issue on any
version prior to 2.6, and I am almost positive this does not apply to
2.2.x, but here it goes anyway:

If the Exchange Plugin happens to be enabled (but not used at all,
apparently), this prevents creating a new Address Book or Calendar
(including local ones). Due to a bad check, the OK button stays
insensitive always.


In 2.6 the work-around would be, to simply disable the Exchange Plugin
in Edit / Plugins. In 2.2 Exchange isn't as integrated as it is in
current versions though -- the most obvious difference being a dedicated
"Exchange" component. This component only exists, if Connector is
installed (speaking about Evo 2.2).

Sorry, this probably is a red herring in your case. You may want to have
a look WRT this anyway, though.

I mostly decided to post all this, as I am sure this issue will come up
in the future... ;)

...guenther


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