📅 Event Location/Description

[joffreyjaffeux]

You can now add a location and a description to an event.

The location is a mono-line text field (supports auto-linking) which will be displayed with a location pin icon:

The description is a multiline text field (supports auto-linking + line breaks) which will be displayed at the end of the event with no icon:

Info:

• The URL field will still be shown if you had it set, but is not available in the UI for new events.
• The description is saved a the block content of the event in the markdown.
• Relevant commit: FEATURE: Add event location/description and "My Events" filter (#746) · discourse/discourse-calendar@bdf8869 · GitHub

[nathank (Nathan Kershaw)]

This is brilliant, and a much more flexible and high value use of the existing fields - it is also consistent with how most email calendars handle their events.

Would now be a good time to remove the Minimal Event option?

What is the point of the 'Minimal Event' setting in the Add event modal? And why is it separate?

I’m referring to this: [Screenshot 2025-04-02 16.28.34] I struggle to see how this would be helpful, but I’m sure it has some history. A Standalone event almost certainly does what is needed though, and I believe that this is completely redundant. My users often tick it without realising what it does, and I had to go in and undo that quite a bit. Therefore, now I hide it in my instances with this CSS: // hides minimal event option .event-field.minimal-event { display: none; } Pe…

[oshyan (Oshyan Greene)]

Is there any interest in extending “Location” to include pre-defined/centrally managed locations and, ultimately, room management? E.g. a “room” can only have 1 event occurring in it within a given period of time, so sort of room “reservation”, etc? This would be a huge feature for enabling conferences, but also potentially managing events for real-world communities with associated spaces.