Q: Can't invite a resource to calendar event

When you say you cannot invite resources, do you mean when you search for a resource in Calendar.app as an attendee they are not returned?  Do your resources show up in the output of "sudo /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/sbin/calendarserver_manage_pri ncipals --list-principals resource"

The commands are :

sudo /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/sbin/calendarserver_manage_pri ncipals --list-principals resource

and

sudo /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/sbin/calendarserver_manage_pri ncipals --list-principals locations

Afterwards use Safari and test by using the Web login

Have fun

Leo

No, you don't have to use the plural for resource or location.

Also, I'm noticing there is a space inside calendarserver_manage_principals above -- perhaps that is the cause of the "Command not found" error.

So if this is working for some clients and not for others, it's likely the server is doing the right thing but some clients are discarding the search results for some reason.  You'll probably need to turn on request/response logging either on the client or on the server.  If you want to do it on the server, find the directory containing caldavd-system.plist.  By default it's /Library/Server/Calendar and Contacts/Config/ , unless you've relocated your server data to another volume, in which case look on that volume.  Create a file named caldavd-user.plist in that Config directory and put this in it:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

  <dict>

    <key>AccountingCategories</key>

    <dict>

      <key>HTTP</key>

      <true/>

    </dict>

    <key>ResponseCompression</key>

    <false/>

  </dict>

</plist>

Then stop/start the Calendar service.  Once you do that, after a client has made at least one request, you should see a new directory in /Library/Server/Calendar and Contacts/Logs named "accounting/HTTP"; in there will be a file for each request/response that is made from now on.  You can examine these to see exactly what the server is returning to your El Capitan clients, and make sure the resources you're expecting are returned in the responses.  Be sure to disable HTTP accounting when you're done because the accounting/HTTP directory will grow unbounded.  To disable accounting, simply remove the caldavd-user.plist and stop/start the Calendar service.

If you instead want to turn on client-side logging, please see the Troubleshooting section of this page:  https://trac.calendarserver.org/browser/CalendarServer/trunk/doc/Client-Server/c alendar-client.rst

Ok, so it turns out the El Capitan Calendar.app rejects attendees (users or resources) which don't have an email address assigned.  The workaround for this is to edit the resources.xml file that lives in /Library/Server/Calendar and Contacts/Data/ and add <email>roomname@servername.example.com</email> to each <record type="resource"> XML element (substituting "roomname" and "servername.example.com" with appropriate values).

For example:

<record type="resource">

    <uid>FEA69A76-677E-4026-9A04-72EA3451B880</uid>

    <short-name>FEA69A76-677E-4026-9A04-72EA3451B880</short-name>

    <full-name>Test Resource</full-name>

    <email>testresource@example.com</email>

</record>

Please take care to back up your existing resources.xml file just in case!

What an incredibly stupid bug. This is why the Mac OS should not be on an annual required update cycle.

Thanks for the workaround Morgen.

This doesn't work for me on Mavericks Server. When I add <email>resource@mycompany.com</email> to a resource record and saves the file, all resources and locations disappear from the list in Server.app. I have to go back to the backup file to get them back again. Any suggestions?

Thanks

Hi ~morgen.

This helped, thank you. I wonder how one discovers this…

Anyway, I filed a bug report on https://www.apple.com/feedback/.

Klaus Löfflad

Spezialist für Apple Produkte

http://train4media.de

The same thing happened to me... I added an <email></email> line to two of my resources in the resources.xml file, restarted the calendar service, and the resources disappeared from the Server.app. I restored my backed up resources.xml file, but I couldn't get them back. Maybe this has something to do with the resourceinfo.sqlite datbase?

HI.

Server team wrote: "Thanks for this feedback. It is a known issue that will be fixed in a future release."

This worked fine for me on OS X 10.11.2 with Server app 5.0.15.  Make sure to stop calendar server before you update the file.  Save the file, then restart calendar server.    Also, make sure when updating the file, you do not break the XML structure.

Here is hoping that the "future release" the server team indicates is sooner rather than later.  I do not care for patches of this nature as there is no good understanding of the unintended consequences.

Carl

Dear Magister

We just tested in 10.11.3 and 10.11.4 Beta. In both versions we still encounter this error.

System

10.11.2 Server

MBP with 10.11.2, 10.11.3 and 10.11.4 Beta.

Best, Stefan