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

[John Anderson]

Hi Morgen:

I ran into these kind of problems in the past and concluded that the 
only viable solution is to separate display info from data -- which 
means not storing color info on the ItemCollection.

John

Morgen Sagen wrote:

> 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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