Alternate Exchange Mailbox Categories Not Populating

OGCS Version: v2.8.1.0 Installed or Portable: Installed

Problem Description
Hi there – I’ve written about this before here: “Categories of alternative mailbox #335”

I believe I had everything sorted per my cobbled-together fix, which I discussed in prior thread. However, with the Alpha upgrade to 2.8.1, things went awry, and now my workaround no longer works! So, back to the drawing board with the original issue: when I switch from “Default” to “Alternative” mailbox for Outlook, the Calendars populate properly, but the Category Names persist with those in my default account. Even when including all Category Names in the sync, including “No Category Assigned”, something weird is happening: those events with Category Names that don’t show up in the Alternate Calendar category list simply don’t sync. And that’s where my workaround previously worked – I just changed the name of the category to match in the XML code.

Also, this is a shared Exchange calendar, but it functions as an alternative calendar, so not sure why it’s acting funky.

And one more thing: not sure if it matters, but this is the second instance of OGCS that is running.

Steps to Reproduce the Issue

1. Open OGCS.
2. Change Outlook mailbox from “Default” to “Alternative”
3. Wait for Calendars to populate.
4. By Default, the primary “Calendar” mailbox is selected.
5. No change in Category Name list.

Any other information
OGCS log attached.

But here is the relevant portion of the log:

2019-09-09 09:31:45,253 DEBUG  1 OutlookGoogleCalendarSync.OutlookOgcs.OutlookNew [0] -  Finding Alternative Mailbox calendar folders
2019-09-09 09:31:46,922 DEBUG  1 OutlookGoogleCalendarSync.OutlookOgcs.OutlookNew [0] -  Default Calendar folder: Calendar
2019-09-09 09:31:46,938 DEBUG  1 OutlookGoogleCalendarSync.OutlookOgcs.OutlookNew [0] -  Folder type: olExchangeMailbox
2019-09-09 09:31:46,938 WARN  1 OutlookGoogleCalendarSync.OutlookOgcs.Categories [0] -  Failed getting non-default mailbox categories. Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2019-09-09 09:31:46,938 DEBUG  1 OutlookGoogleCalendarSync.OutlookOgcs.Categories [0] -  Reverting to default mailbox categories.
2019-09-09 09:31:46,954 INFO  1 OutlookGoogleCalendarSync.OutlookOgcs.ExplorerWatcher [0] -  Setting up Explorer event watchers.
2019-09-09 09:31:46,954 DEBUG  1 OutlookGoogleCalendarSync.OutlookOgcs.ExplorerWatcher [0] -  Watcher needed for 1 existing explorers.
2019-09-09 09:31:46,954 DEBUG  1 OutlookGoogleCalendarSync.OutlookOgcs.ExplorerWatcher [0] -  Adding listener for Explorer 'INIR - Calendar - INIR - Outlook'
2019-09-09 09:31:46,954 DEBUG  1 OutlookGoogleCalendarSync.OutlookOgcs.OutlookNew [0] -  Refreshing categories...
2019-09-09 09:31:46,969 WARN  1 OutlookGoogleCalendarSync.OutlookOgcs.Categories [0] -  Failed getting non-default mailbox categories. Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2019-09-09 09:31:46,969 DEBUG  1 OutlookGoogleCalendarSync.OutlookOgcs.Categories [0] -  Reverting to default mailbox categories.
2019-09-09 09:31:49,730 INFO  1 OutlookGoogleCalendarSync.Settings [0] -  Saving settings.

[mcfibb]

You. Are. A. Genius. IT WORKS!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.

Frankly, my wife thanks you too. The whole reason for needing this set up is that my work won’t allow sharing/syncing of calendars to non-company accounts, but my wife and I need to coordinate when I’m working onsite vs offsite (which is what my team uses the alternate calendar for). So syncing alternate calendar events with just my category to an external Google calendar that I can share with my wife has been super helpful.

So, thank you so, so much!

[mcfibb]

My best guess is human error. If it happens again though, I’ll let you know!

Thanks!

On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 7:55 AM Paul Woolcock @.***> wrote:

I’m not quite sure I understand what that last problem was - is “I think the the main calendar didn’t load when I setup the second profile.” a bug with OGCS or just human error when configuring the second Profile?

Sounds like I can roll the categories fix into the next release though!

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