Functionality Differences between Calendar Express & Communications Express

Question

Now that the BIG problems related to our migration from Calendar v5.1.1 to v6.3 have died down, we're getting reports of significant (to our users, at least) differences in the functionality between our old environment (Calendar Express v5.1.1) and the new environment (Communications Express v6.3) (partial list at the end of this posting).
All of the below issues, I have checked in Calendar Express v6.3, and they appear to function as our users expect, like they did in 5.1.1. The problem is that we went live with CommExpress, and have not branded Calendar Express for general consumption. We would like to be able to make the CommExpr calendar functions work like they do in Calendar Express, assuming it wouldn't be a HUGE undertaking of modification to the underlying code. I've asked Sun Support for some answers regarding this, but thought I'd post something here while I wait for an answer.
Issues:
- When scheduling an appointment on someone else's calendar (subscribed), the owner of the calendar is NOT added as an invitee, but the logged-in user is. This causes major problems when trying to check availability, because the owner of the calendar is not included in this check, but the person doing the scheduling is, even though they're not going to the meeting.
- When you click on "check availability" from the main CommExpress calendar screen, it defaults to the logged-in user, and not the user for the currently selected "Current Calendar." Again, user reports that this functionality is different than previously.
- Also, previously when two events were scheduled for a user at the same time, the calendar would show "conflict" in red letters in both events. We are no longer getting this warning.
Again, all three of these issues behave in the current version of Calendar Express like they did in v5.1.1. CommExpress just doesn't work right in this respect. We'd like to continue to use CommExpress, since all indications are that Calendar Express is going away at some point, but we need the calendar functionality that CommExpress is not providing.
Thanks,
Kurt

Answer 1

shane_hjorth wrote:
I only tested with the month-view so it is entirely possible that I missed the week-view. Mea culpa.
If you could please provide the diffs of the changes you made that would be useful for any other forum reader thinking of making a similar modification.
These changes may be more than absolutely required for the change, but they seem to be working as expected.
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