Calendar sync with Mozilla Sunbird or Lightning

[lanx]

Is SugarCRM open source capable of syncing with Mozilla Sunbird or Mozilla Lightning such as it does with Mozilla Thunderbird for email?

[tdp]

Is SugarCRM open source capable of syncing with Mozilla Sunbird or Mozilla Lightning such as it does with Mozilla Thunderbird for email?

There is a patch for iCal support that generates .ics files that Sunbird understands. I've been using it for quite some time with good results.

[lanx]

There is a patch for iCal support that generates .ics files that Sunbird understands. I've been using it for quite some time with good results.

How quickly can one sync the two? Or is this like clicking a bunch of times, copying and pasting data, importing, etc? Or a few clicks? Any guide on this?

[tdp]

How quickly can one sync the two? Or is this like clicking a bunch of times, copying and pasting data, importing, etc? Or a few clicks? Any guide on this?

Well, for starters, it is a one-way deal. You can show your SugarCRM calendar in Thunderbird (or any .ics compatible calendar program) but you can't use Thunderbird to update your SugarCRM calendar. That said, in Thunderbird you set up your SugarCRM calendar as a remote WebDAV calendar and then point the URL at your SugarCRM install. The only documentation about this module is the README file, but that does cover what you need to do to get this running.

The major annoyance I've run into is that Thunderbird has no way to automatically check the calendar for updates. You need to do this manually, but that is a Thunderbird problem, not a problem with this module.

[gutch]

Hi

I have one question regarding the Ical patch and Sunbird/Thunderbird. I installed the patch and set my sugarcrm calendar as a remote calendar in Sunbird and it works so far. However, Sunbird doesn't display all the meetings backwards and forwards. For example i cannot see the meetings from last march neither the ones from next september. Is there a range that limits the time scale of the meetings that can be displayed? Is it a problem from sugarcrm or from sunbird? thanks in advance for your help