Google Calendar Sync Moves Location Field to Description

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Hello,

When syncing my Google Calendar to OnlyOffice, theLocation field of the Google event gets added to the Description field in OnlyOffice instead of being synced to the Location field. I suspect there might be a mapping issue in the ICS import process. Annoyingly, this also makes the links text, so when you are trying to join a meeting, you have to find the link for the location, and copy paste it into your browser from the description. Are there any workarounds or settings to ensure the LOCATION property maps correctly?

Here is an example event looks like. The Google event has a location with a Jitsi link. When it gets synced, this becomes the description and the link isnt clickable and you have to copy paste it.

Google
Google2134×1330 245 KB

OnlyOffice
OnlyOffice2494×1232 150 KB

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. In the calendar page, Click Create and Import events.
  2. Add the link to iCal link field for the Google calendar, check the Sync checkbox and import the Google calendar.
  3. Add an event to Google Calendar with a location that contains a link.
  4. Event should show up in OnlyOffice with the link in the description instead of the Location field.

OnlyOffice Details:
Community Server Version: 12.7.1.1942
Control Panel Version: 3.5.4.541
Type of installation of Workspace: Docker installed from here

Thanks for your help!

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Hello @gokay

Are you using some kind of Jitsi addon in your Google Calendar? In my attempts to reproduce the issue I do not have the button Join your Jitsi Meeting now and, moreover, manually inserting a random link to the location, then syncing the calendar with Workspace does not reproduce the behavior with the link being transferred to the Description field. If I do not specify anything the the description field for the event, then this field does not show up and, otherwise, it is shown up, when I fill this field in the event prior the sync.

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Hi @Constantine,

Thanks for your reply. I did some more testing and realized that the issue is a little more different than I originally described. We are using an app that adds the event to the calendar. It turns out the app adds a link to the Location field, and essentially the same link with a few extra words to the Descriptionfield, which is why it seemed like the field was put into the wrong place.

I manually inserted links similar to you in a simplified calendar and found that the Location field is not synced from Google at all. Here is the Google Calendar event I am creating:

Google
Google918×739 59.6 KB

I added 2 different links to the Location and Description fields so that I can tell which one is coming into OnlyOffice. Here is what I see in OnlyOffice:

OnlyOffice 1
OnlyOffice 1934×496 22.3 KB

OnlyOffice 2
OnlyOffice 21140×486 17.8 KB

The Location link is not there, but the Description link does sync like you observed.

Furthermore, the issue is not limited to links. I tried it with a physical address and observed the same issue:

Address 1
Address 1777×420 36.7 KB

Address 2

As you can see, physical addresses are not synced to the Location field of the OnlyOffice event.

I hope that clarifies it. Thanks again for looking into the issue.

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Thank you for the reply. Indeed, I can see that the location field is not synced. This behavior is a bug. We are working on it, but I cannot provide any ETA at the moment. As a workaround, you can mirror the same information about location in description field that is synced.