The discussion focuses on streamlining the user interface for inserting dates and events within the Discourse composer, addressing user confusion between the core ‘insert date/time’ feature and the ‘insert event’ plugin. SkyeDragon highlights the current UI issues, where both features are referred to as “events,” and proposes merging them or placing the event button adjacent to the date button for better visibility. sam agrees with the feedback and suggests a dropdown interface to clarify the distinction, noting that @chapoi has time earmarked to review the composer toolbar. SkyeDragon supports this dropdown idea.
nathank reinforces the need for this change, noting that the current setup confuses even technical users, leading some to hide the date button entirely. He confirms that sam’s proposed UI would resolve the issue and mentions that the underlying modal code has been difficult to maintain. Later, nathank reports that the issue has been addressed for specific Calendar & Event categories via a new streamlined setup process. SkyeDragon clarifies that while forum setup is improved, the individual event creation UI was the original concern. awesomerobot provides a link to a post detailing the new event creation features, and SkyeDragon expresses appreciation for the improvements.
Users (including myself ) often get confused regarding the insert date UI (core) and the insert event UI (official plugin). (They even both refer to “event”)
In an ideal world, perhaps these could be merged into a single button, which prompts the user if they are trying to make an event or a time. (This would require a lot of code rework though)
More simply, if the event button was directly adjacent to the date/time button, instead of hidden under the more gear it would probably alert the user there are two different flows available. (Have not looked into if this is possible, but seems easier implementation-wise)
And I’ve brought it up privately on multiple occasions - the UI of the events button in the composer at present trips up even the most technically savvy users.
My workaround solution to this has been to hide the insert/date time button to limit the confusion (and thus lose the quite useful functionality). But people struggle to find the button in the gears menu still.
Yup - this would absolutely nail that particular issue!
The modal needs attention too; when we put together a TC to insert Jitsi calls into events it was much easier to simply modify the Insert date/time modal and use that. It is broken now (as we are no longer using Jitsi) and I can’t even find the code. Will post a link if I find it.
Thanks but it looks like the linked thread is for streamlined setup of a forum dedicated to events (cool!), whereas this request was regarding streamlining the individual events.
Was the create event UI also updated as part of this? It has been a while since I looked at this so I am out of the loop on how it works these days.
(Entirely possible I am missing that when reading the linked thread, but it doesn’t have any event creation UI screenshots.)
) often get confused regarding the insert date UI (core) and the insert event UI (official plugin). (They even both refer to “event”)
