From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Niels Giesen Subject: Re: Org Mode Calendar UID Mismatch. Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 21:20:41 +0200 Message-ID: <87hb8qmr92.fsf@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40336) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QN8jK-0003Ej-FE for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2011 15:17:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QN8jI-0003GT-LB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2011 15:17:54 -0400 Received: from mail-ey0-f169.google.com ([209.85.215.169]:39799) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QN8jI-0003GF-AN for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2011 15:17:52 -0400 Received: by eyd9 with SMTP id 9so1156363eyd.0 for ; Thu, 19 May 2011 12:17:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Greg Troxel's message of "Thu, 19 May 2011 08:03:30 -0400") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Greg Troxel Cc: Ghanashyam , org-mode-mailing-list , Bastien Greg Troxel writes: > Ghanashyam writes: > >> I have had a problem with the org mode calendar export with emacs. >> It looks like org mode uses some uid generation exe which >> generates non unique UIDs. I am not sure why this is to. Even when I >> set the UID format to include the date format. Because of this, the ics >> file import into google calendar or a thunderbird import fails to import all >> tasks that were reported as Scheduled in the org mode document. >> >> Anyone with similar experiences.? I put this up on stack overflow but >> there was no response. > > I'm haing the inverse problem, but I hadn't tracked it down enough to > post. I find that after importing into Apple iCal (mac 10.6), and > doing another import, I end up with two events. @Greg: Org-mode UIDs are ignored if they are for entries with diary sexps, as calendar.el creates its own ids for them. This may be the cause for double entries when you export your org file & import the ical file multiple times and you use diary sexps. A while ago I submitted some patches, one to calendar.el and one to org-icalendar.el, that - besides adding export of diary-float sexps - fixed this (i.e. org-icalendar puts a UID text-property on the entry, picked up by calendar.el when creating the ical entries). The patches to calendar.el were applied, but I believe the one to org-icalendar.el should still be applied. However, I believe Bastien has had little time lately, or maybe he's forgotten or overseen that those patches to Emacs have already been applied. I put Bastien in the CC of this mail, just as a reminder. See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-02/msg00668.html if you want to try out the UID patch to org-icalendar.el. Note that you also need a recent development Emacs (from bazaar, later than april 27th 2011) to have the other patches applied as well. @Ghanashyam: Above story aside, no entry should be without UID, and I think a non-unique UID is highly improbable. Did you check inside the ical file to see whether the entries you talk about were eported at all? If I create a simple test file, e.g. #+begin_src org * test SCHEDULED: <2011-05-19 Thu 11:00> #+end_src ... and call C-c C-e i this entry does not get exported, but this entry would: #+begin_src org * test2 <2011-05-19 Thu 12:00> #+end_src i.e., SCHEDULED entries aren't exported, while others are, but this does not seem to have anything to do with UIDs. Regards, Niels. -- http://pft.github.com/