[Dev] Sharing currently broken for collections that have a color assigned

[Morgen Sagen]

Ok, sharing now handles mixins by including the constituent kinds' 
info.  I'm weighing various options on how to keep calendar colors 
"semi-private", meaning sharees can change the color at will without 
those changes percolating out to anyone else.

On Apr 26, 2005, at 12:07 PM, Morgen Sagen wrote:

> The sharing framework doesn't yet handle sharing of items whose kinds 
> are mix-ins, and now that any item collection that is assigned a 
> calendar color becomes an instance of a mix-in kind, you can't 
> currently share them (well you can share them but you can't subscribe 
> to them).  I'm working on a solution.  For now you can only share a 
> collection that you haven't viewed in week view (that's when a color 
> gets assigned).  I've already filed bug 2888 against myself to track 
> this:
>
> https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2888
>
> ~morgen
>
> P.S.  The reason this breaks is because the Kind of a 
> Calendar-Collection-with-Color becomes something like:  
> //Schema/Core/Mixins/mixin_708eb5fc, which doesn't mean anything on 
> the sharees' end.  For items of a mix-in kind, I'll need to include 
> all the individual mixed-in kinds' info in the XML.
>
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