Kolab2 Client Troubleshooting - KDE Kontact

From Kolab wiki

This section applies to problems specific to the KDE Kontact client.

1 KDE Kontact has a bug
- 1.1 Problem
- 1.2 Solution
2 Trouble with german calendars
- 2.1 Problem
- 2.2 Solution
3 My problem persists
4 Back

KDE Kontact has a bug

Kolab client		Operating System		Client version
Applies to:	KDE Kontact	Applies to:	All	Applies to:	All
Found on:	KDE Kontact	Found on:	All	Found on:	All

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Problem

What can you do if you hit a bug within KDE Kontact?

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Solution

The KDE Kolab Client is using a subset of KDE's Kontact application. Bugs for it are tracked in the Kolab tracker and in the KDE tracker.

If you encounter bad behaviour, but no crash, it might be good to save the KDE debugging output and have a look. This might give you a clue what is going on and is helpful for developers to guess what might be going on.

Most binaries should be build with debugging enabled. If you cannot see something when running kontact on the command line, also check the settings you can make with kdebugdialog.

If you did not run Kontact from the command line or saved the output, on many systems, the messages will be written to a file like:

~/.xsession-errors

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Trouble with german calendars

Kolab client		Operating System		Client version
Applies to:	KDE Kontact	Applies to:	Unknown	Applies to:	Unknown
Found on:	KDE Kontact	Found on:	Unknown	Found on:	Unknown

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Problem

This is an old report (it might be outdated) which refers to problems with German calendars.

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Solution

The german Outlook will generate german spelled folders for Groupware, so Calender is called Kalender!

To be able to generate Free/Busy-Informations out of these directories/folders you have to modify

$params['calendar_store'] = 'Calendar'; into
$params['calendar_store'] = 'Kalender';

in these following template files:

resmgr.conf.template
fbview.conf.template
freebusy.conf.template

If you will use it mixed with Kontakt-Clients give attention, in the Groupware-Tap you have to set first to german language an then to Kolab-XML!
By this way the Groupware-folders will also be generated in german.

Now it will work with all three Clients, Outlook, Kontakt and the fbview.

--Rmeiners 12:18, 16 October 2006 (BST)

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