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Re: Odoo calendar <-> outlook calendar sync
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Camptocamp France SAS, Alexandre Fayolle
I think this issue was fixed last week in https://github.com/odoo/odoo/commit/86862f2527341247b75df155de16b09d44a7eee6 Alexandre On 22/02/2023 14:32, Simon Pessemesse wrote: > Hello, > We have a customer using native odoo synchronization between outlook calendar > and odoo calendar. > > But since 2 month, the following warning has be added to the odoo documentation > <https://www.odoo.com/documentation/15.0/applications/general/calendars/outlook/outlook_calendar.html?highlight=outlook> > Warning > > Odoo highly recommends testing the Outlook calendar synchronization > on a test database and a test email address (that is not used for > any other purpose) before attempting to sync the desired Outlook > Calendar with the user’s production database. > If the user has any past, present, or future events on their Odoo > calendar before syncing their Outlook calendar, Outlook will treat > the events pulled from Odoo’s calendar during the sync as new > events, causing an email notification to be sent from Outlook to all > the event attendees. > To avoid unwanted emails being sent to all past, present, and future > event attendees, the user must add the events from the Odoo calendar > to the Outlook calendar before the first ever sync, delete the > events from Odoo, and then start the sync. > Even after synchronizing the Odoo Calendar with the Outlook > calendar, Outlook will still send a notification to all event > participants every time an event is edited (created, deleted, > unarchived, or event date/time changed), with no exceptions. This is > a limitation that cannot be fixed from Odoo’s side. > After one user syncs their Outlook calendar to the Odoo database, > unwanted email notifications are unavoidable because the first > synchronized user’s events will be in the Odoo Calendar. If the Odoo > database is shared amongst multiple users, and another user wants to > sync their Outlook calendar with Odoo Calendar, Outlook will again > pull the existing Odoo Calendar events during the sync and treat > them as new events, causing Outlook to send email invitations to all > event attendees. > > In summary, once a user synchronizes their Outlook calendar with the > Odoo calendar: > Creating an event in Odoo causes Outlook to send an invitation > to all event attendees. > Deleting an event in Odoo causes Outlook to send a cancellation > to all event attendees. > Unarchiving an event in Odoo causes Outlook to send an > invitation to all event attendees. > Archiving an event in Odoo causes Outlook to send a cancellation > to all event attendees. > Adding a contact to an event causes Outlook to send an > invitation to all event attendees. > Removing a contact from an event causes Outlook to send a > cancellation to all event attendees. > > And indeed, the synchronization has became unusable because of all the > invitations sent to all event attendees in outlook. > > Odoo doesn't seem to address the problem, do you know any module that would work > properly to sync the calendars? > > Regards > Simon > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing-List: https://odoo-community.org/groups/contributors-15 > <https://odoo-community.org/groups/contributors-15> > Post to: mailto:contributors@odoo-community.org > Unsubscribe: https://odoo-community.org/groups?unsubscribe > <https://odoo-community.org/groups?unsubscribe> > -- Alexandre Fayolle Senior Software Engineer Tel : +33 4 58 48 20 30 Camptocamp France SAS 18 rue du Lac Saint André 73 370 Le Bourget-du-Lac France http://www.camptocamp.com
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Odoo calendar <-> outlook calendar sync
bysimon- 22/02/2023 14:26:35 - 0-
Re: Odoo calendar <-> outlook calendar sync
byCamptocamp France SAS, Alexandre Fayolle- 22/02/2023 14:35:44 - 0
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