[Kroupware] Outlook-Enhancement

[Stefan Lang]

Am Freitag, 5. März 2004 17:27 schrieb Jon Bendtsen:
> Den 5. mar 2004, kl. 15:31, skrev Stefan Lang:
> > I would like to diskuss this once more!
> >
> >>>> On Wednesday 03 March 2004 11:42, Stefan Lang wrote:
> >>>>> We have an employee in our company, who is able to develop a
> >>>>> "plugin"
> >>>>> for M$ Outlook which is able to store its calendar-content
> >>>>> "regulary"
> >>>>> in vcal-format! My questions are:
> >>>>> 1) Is this a "workaround" to share calendar informatinon (not
> >>>>> freebusy) between Outlook- and Kontact-Users?
> >>>>
> >>>> This is not a workaround, it would be the real solution!
> >>>
> >>> Well, the question is if it will work for 100% e.g. hwo does he
> >>> solve the
> >>> GUID issue? (OL needs the GUID and a lot of other internal data of a
> >>> calendar item in order to keep internal references correct)
> >>>
> >>> So basically this means that the plugin must not only be able to
> >>> write
> >>> (easy) but also to read the vcals in all their beauty.
> >
> > I know, there are people with more experience and knowledge, regarding
> > this
> > topic, around , like I do ........but
> >
> > What, if we don't touch Outlook, let it store its calendar information
> > the way
> > it wants, and convert it to vcal on the server.....perhaps "in" kolab!
>
> That is not as scaleable as doing everything in the client.
>
> > Advantages:
> > 1) We don't have to struggle with OL.....and its many many Versions and
> > subversions (patches, servicepacks). It's a nightmare to develop a
> > software
> > covering all those shi...y versions.
>
> Wouldnt we still need to code something to store the ms format on the
> kolab server?
>
> > 2) We would improve kolab and not an "enemies" product! ;-)
>
> Good point.
>
> > 3) There are perl-based tools for READING tnef-files around, so perl
> > could be
> > our friend! For WRITING these files, I didn't find anything! :-(
>
> reverse the perl code ?
>
> > Disadvantage(s):
> > 1) We must convert from TNEF-Format to vcal and back again, if someone
> > modifies the OL-users calendar with a kontact-client!
>
> i dont think that would happen very often.


So what???? :-)

I feel like lost in the dark!

I think we need some more opinions from the "core team", too?!
HuHu! Anybody out there and wants to join this thread?? :-)

Stevie