[Akonadi] [Bug 482398] Akonadi EWS doesn't seem to pull the tags from EWS

[Krzysztof Nowicki]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482398

--- Comment #1 from Krzysztof Nowicki <krissn at op.pl> ---
Exchange categories contain far less metadata compared to Akonadi tags. On the
Exchange side there is only a name and colour. This was the main reason why the
EWS resource only does one-way synchronization of tags into categories. It
writes the full Akonadi metadata into custom attributes and only sets the
category name corresponding to the Akonadi tag name.
The problem with reverse synchronization is that on Akonadi side it is
perfectly possible to have multiple tags with identical name - they will just
have a different internal identifier. In such case the conversion from Exchange
(just name) into Akonadi would be ambiguous. It would also be unclear what to
do in case an Exchange category is retrieved, that doesn't have an Akonadi tag
with a corresponding name.
I agree that it would be possible to come up with a set of conversion rules and
allow limited reverse sync (Exchange -> Akonadi).

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