# Add admin setting to change default Calendar view (Month / Week / Year)
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-admin-setting-to-change-default-calendar-view-month-week-year/387389
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** events, completed
**Created:** [2 בנובמבר, 2025, 9:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-admin-setting-to-change-default-calendar-view-month-week-year/387389 "2025-11-02T09:58:08Z")
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### Author:  [@Ethsim2](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ethsim2)
#### Post date: [2 בנובמבר, 2025, 9:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-admin-setting-to-change-default-calendar-view-month-week-year/387389/1 "2025-11-02T09:58:08Z")
Hi there 👋
For sites that rely heavily on the Upcoming Events page, many community members prefer a weekly view by default. Currently, `/upcoming-events` always loads the Month view first, even if a user prefers Week (or Day, Year).
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### Feature request
Add a simple admin site setting to configure which view `/upcoming-events` loads by default:
```plaintext
upcoming events default view:
- /upcoming-events/month (current default)
- /upcoming-events/week
- /upcoming-events/year
```
### Why this matters
- Weekly view is more practical for teaching timetables, shift patterns, and events-dense communities
- Reduces repeated switching every time users visit the page
- Improves UX parity with mobile calendar apps that default to Week view
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### Current workaround
Admins can force redirect to `/upcoming-events/week` (prior to `upcoming-events/week/2025/10/27`) with a Theme Component, but that:
- is hacky
- applies to everyone globally (hard to scope)
- doesn’t give true admin UX control
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Thank you! This would be a small change with a big usability improvement for event-focused communities 🙌
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### Author:  [@Ethsim2](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ethsim2)
#### Post date: [6 בנובמבר, 2025, 6:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-admin-setting-to-change-default-calendar-view-month-week-year/387389/2 "2025-11-06T06:51:43Z")
this is to hard code the default to Week, rather than Month. It’s simple, but not yet a site-setting - it lays the foundation for the more acceptable improvement
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/35861](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/35861)
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### Author:  [@Ethsim2](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ethsim2)
#### Post date: [6 בנובמבר, 2025, 7:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-admin-setting-to-change-default-calendar-view-month-week-year/387389/3 "2025-11-06T07:16:13Z")
> [@Ethsim2](#):
>
> more acceptable improvement
Why not just an `app.yml` var?
Ember code doesn’t read arbitrary env vars. Discourse only exposes declared site settings (config/settings.yml, client: true) to the client. That’s why you either:
- add the setting in core (then set via app.yml), or
- avoid settings and use a theme component redirect.
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### Author:  [@manuel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/manuel)
#### Post date: [8 בנובמבר, 2025, 1:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-admin-setting-to-change-default-calendar-view-month-week-year/387389/5 "2025-11-08T13:18:11Z")
How about rather resolving generic urls, so you could use a custom link on the sidebar?
Right now these wouldn’t work:
```plaintext
/upcoming-events/day
/upcoming-events/week
/upcoming-events/month
/upcoming-events/year
```
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### Author:  [@Ethsim2](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ethsim2)
#### Post date: [8 בנובמבר, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-admin-setting-to-change-default-calendar-view-month-week-year/387389/6 "2025-11-08T13:52:08Z")
> [@manuel](#):
>
> you could use a custom link on the sidebar?
i’m “used to” upcoming events button that can’t be configured on the sidebar.
Furthermore, an admin setting could set the default of a user preference. Rather than all users being forced to set-up their own sidebar button/section, or accept a global section.
I hope i have changed the correct code in my PR, that we simply need to toggle what i changed based on a setting?…
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [12 בנובמבר, 2025, 12:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-admin-setting-to-change-default-calendar-view-month-week-year/387389/8 "2025-11-12T12:29:10Z")
@yuriy can you add a site setting for this please? Should be easy.
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### Author:  [@yuriy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/yuriy)
#### Post date: [13 בנובמבר, 2025, 12:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-admin-setting-to-change-default-calendar-view-month-week-year/387389/10 "2025-11-13T12:15:52Z")
> [@Ethsim2](#):
>
> I hope i have changed the correct code in my PR
@Ethsim2, you actually did 😃
The new setting _Calendar upcoming events default view_ is available now. The changes were implemented in:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/36014](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/36014)
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### Author:  [@Ethsim2](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ethsim2)
#### Post date: [14 בינואר, 2026, 4:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-admin-setting-to-change-default-calendar-view-month-week-year/387389/11 "2026-01-14T16:49:37Z")
Thanks again for getting this landed - the admin default view setting is a big UX win 👍
Now that this exists, it might be worth considering a small follow-up enhancement: allowing users to optionally override the site default with a personal preference, while keeping the admin setting as the fallback.
That would give sites a strong default identity (Week vs Month), but still let individuals choose what works best for them - similar to how most calendar apps behave. A simple precedence like
explicit URL → user preference → site default
would keep behaviour predictable and backwards-compatible.
Not suggesting this replaces the current setting - just a possible next step if you think it fits the broader UX direction.
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### Author:  [@lindsey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lindsey)
#### Post date: [28 באפריל, 2026, 6:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-admin-setting-to-change-default-calendar-view-month-week-year/387389/12 "2026-04-28T18:50:46Z")
Since the original request is complete, I’m going to close this topic.
@Ethsim2 if you would like to continue looking into that follow up request, I can move that into a new #Contribute > Feature topic — just let me know!
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### Author:  [@lindsey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lindsey)
#### Post date: [1 במאי, 2026, 12:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-admin-setting-to-change-default-calendar-view-month-week-year/387389/14 "2026-05-01T12:00:22Z")
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