The discussion revolves around the use of the event plugin in Discourse communities. waqar is looking for a plugin to book mock interview sessions, where users can create events, add them to Google Calendar, and receive notifications. They were unable to get the plugin working and are seeking alternatives.
twofoursixeight shared a link to a community that uses the event plugin, but waqar is looking for more examples. Canapin shared their experience with various event plugins, but ultimately chose not to use any due to complexity and customization issues.
HAWK shared that their internal Discourse forum uses the event plugin successfully, but noted that the reminder feature would need to come from the native calendar event. However, they were unable to share a live demo as their community is private. waqar is still seeking a live demo to see how the plugin can be used for their mock interview sessions.
Hi,
Is there anyone who is using this event plugin in their discourse community? I want to see the demo how it is working. I’ve checked all his details and add to my community but it is not working. Creating and managing events
Actually, I want to use this plugin to book mock interview sessions and I want as the create event, it should add to their google calendar and they also get notifications before 30 minutes.
If this plugin can not work for my purpose, can you suggest any other plugin?
I am not the owner of this forum, but this forum has the plugin: https://forum.dark-gaming.com
This forum is owned by @popstarfreas
Thank you for helping. I need some other community to clarify the purpose
My reply probably won’t help you much.
I’ve had specific needs for displaying events on my forum, and I’ve found the existing solutions not fitting enough, sometimes hard to understand or configure, and a lack of customization for the calendar view.
I ended up not using any event or calendar plugin/theme component.
I just now have an Event category where I use the Location plugin, and that does the work because I preferred having no hassle and almost no features instead of complex stuff and features that didn’t exactly fit my needs.
Thank you for sharing the details. But this location plugin is not helpful for me.
Actually, we are going to offer free mock interviews and then people will create an event when they need interview sessions. In this case location does not matter.
We use the event plugin for that purpose on our internal Discourse forum and it works well. The reminder part would need to come from the native calendar event though.
What isn’t working for you? This is probably more of a support request than a community topic, but I’ll wait for your response before recategorising.
I want to see the live domeo. Can you share the link of post in which your any member use event plugin? Actually I’m going to offer a service of mock interview sessions and any user can create an event and other user can join that event. I want to see will it work fine for that purpose?
No, I cannot sorry. It is a private community.