[chandler-users] Don't Delete Collections that Have Subscriptions!
Bobby Rullo
br at osafoundation.org
Wed Mar 28 11:24:10 PST 2007
There could've been. Unfortunately, I know of no way to find that
out, even with admin access.
Brian, Jared, any ideas?
Bobby
On Mar 28, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:
> Hi Bobby,
>
> I did this to unsubscribe to Priss' collection and got the null
> screen. But when I try to access my calendar again, it hangs with
> the Processing... box again.
>
> Were there any other calendars that were unpublished?
>
> Mimi
>
> On Mar 16, 2007, at 4:10 PM, Bobby Rullo wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Priss and I uncovered a fairly serious bug in the Cosmo UI - if
>> you are subscribed to a collection in Cosmo UI and someone deletes
>> that collection you cannot get to the calendar anymore, and there
>> is no easy fix through the account browser or DAV.
>>
>> So if you give people a bookmarkable URL don't delete that
>> collection or else you will ruin anyone's account who has
>> subscribed to it.
>>
>> For those who have a ruined account and are somewhat savvy (aren't
>> we all?) you can do the following:
>>
>> 1) go to the calendar page (https://osaf.us/cosmo/pim) - it will
>> hang at the "Processing..." stage
>> 2) Figure out the Collection Id and ticket key of the thing you
>> subscribed to. If your bookmarkable url looked like this:
>>
>> https://osaf.us/cosmo/pim/collection/edbf0972-
>> b5d6-442d-8de1-728307b053f7?ticket=dtzzvhe5z0
>>
>> then your collection id is "edbf0972-b5d6-442d-8de1-728307b053f7"
>> and your ticket key is "dtzzvhe5z0"
>>
>> 3) type the following into the address bar
>>
>> javascript:Cal.serv.deleteSubscription("<<collection
>> id>>","<<ticketKey>>")
>>
>> Obviously (I hope) replace the bracketed bits with the appropriate
>> value. Don't forget yer quotes.
>>
>> 4) Hit return. You should see a page that just says "null"
>> 5) Try accessing your calendar again.
>>
>> These instructions have only been tested in Firefox. Not sure how
>> well they work in other browsers....
>>
>>
>> bobby
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