Angus' Events Plugin 📅

[mbajur]

Thanks for amazing work @angus ! I was waiting for such thing for ages.

What do you think about implementing “Make event date and/or time required when creating event” feature? I would love to help with that if i had the skills.

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

I’ve pushed v0.1 of the RSVP feature. Thanks for being patient, I’ve been moving city and house, so I’ve been busy.

Add rsvp feature · angusmcleod/discourse-events@39a8de1 · GitHub

If you enable events rsvp in site settings, you will see:

• An rsvp toggle and attendee count under the topic title (Guests just see an unlinked count).

  

• Clicking on the attendee count opens a modal with a filterable list of the attendees.

  

• The attendee count appears on the topic list.

  

Future additions:

• Event-specific rsvp enabling.

• Email markup to allow rsvp from email clients (e.g. Gmail).

• “Interested” rsvp (aka ‘Maybe’).

• Rsvp limit (@Stephen).

cc @shoshber

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@mbajur

What do you think about implementing “Make event date and/or time required when creating event” feature?

Do you mean a setting to require users to add an event when creating a topic, or setting(s) to require users to add specific parts of an event, i.e. you can’t create an event with adding a date and a time?

[Stephen]

Looks awesome. Will test shortly.

Can I suggest an RSVP limit be considered for the future? The reason I suggested the feature to begin with is a group who have regular meetings in a physical space with a capacity limit. First-come, first-served.

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

I’ve added:

• Event-specific rsvp enabling; and

• Guest limits

https://github.com/angusmcleod/discourse-events/commit/f26c71c9cbd9b8667024744d6bd5188a53fbd6b8

Now the site setting events rsvp toggles controls in the Add Event modal that lets the event creator enable rsvp and set a guest limit for each event.

• Rsvp details in the topic and the topic list are shown only if rsvp is enabled for that topic.

• The guest limit is not mandatory.

The event details under the topic title includes spots remaining if a guest limit is set.

This is live on my sandbox, e.g. https://discourse.angusmcleod.com.au/t/spelunking-in-the-amazon/338

[Stephen]

Get a 500 error when RSVP’ing:

RuntimeError (translation missing: en.event_rsvp.error.not_enabled)
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-events/controllers/event_rsvp.rb:66:in `check_if_rsvp_enabled’

Let me know if you want more of the log.

[mbajur]

@angus

Do you mean a setting to require users to add an event when creating a topic, or setting(s) to require users to add specific parts of an event, i.e. you can’t create an event with adding a date and a time?

Definitely a first one - require users to set date (and time) when creating an event.

[ChrisBeach (Chris)]

@angus

I’ve added:

• Event-specific rsvp enabling; and

• Guest limits

Excellent feature - very welcome addition.

I did, however find that my forum completely stopped working (even in safe mode) after I added an event

From production.log

Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 98ms (ActiveRecord: 25.3ms)
NoMethodError (undefined method `>' for nil:NilClass)
/var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-events/plugin.rb:177:in `event_going_max'

I was able to get the forum back online by deleting the last topic I’d created using the following at the Rails console:

Topic.last.destroy

Another issue - in desktop mode, when selecting an events-enabled category, the event date button is unclickable due to it being rendered behind the preview pane:

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

@Stephen

Get a 500 error when RSVP’ing:

Thanks, fixed.

https://github.com/angusmcleod/discourse-events/commit/46c5f16815d3224b7bc83e10d082a7ad93d8f7b9

@ChrisBeach

I did, however find that my forum completely stopped working (even in safe mode) after I added an event

My apologies. Not sure how I missed that one in my tests. Fixed.

https://github.com/angusmcleod/discourse-events/commit/a5521d01fefa383c3662c1660c20b6938b9dece2

I’ve created a new test topic with those changes here:

https://discourse.angusmcleod.com.au/t/kite-flying-on-the-common/395

@ChrisBeach

in desktop mode, when selecting an events-enabled category, the event date button is unclickable due to it being rendered behind the preview pane

hm I’ll take a look at this later tonight.

@mbajur

Definitely a first one - require users to set date (and time) when creating an event.

Ok, I’ll take a look at adding that in the coming week.

[ChrisBeach (Chris)]

Speedy response as always, thanks @angus

[Francois_Douville (François Douville)]

Is it possible to add multiple dates for a same event? For now it is not, I have to write multiple topics.

@angus

Not yet, but I can add it to the to do list.

If I just have a day but no time for an event, is it possible to not display 00:00 ?

@angus

hm it shouldn’t be doing that. I’ll take a look on the weekend.

It would be so awesome if you add these features soon, thank you very much @angus

[Stephen]

@angus

Thanks, fixed.

Rebuilt about 45 minutes ago, still getting the 500 error on new and existing events. Tried with both a guest limit and without.

Also, when I create an event with RSVP enabled and a guest limit the ‘going’ box doesn’t immediately appear. If I edit the event again and save it without making any changes then it’s visible. Will have a video clip in a moment to illustrate.

https://gfycat.com/GroundedOrdinaryHumpbackwhale

[tobiaseigen]

I am liking the look of rhe rsvp feature. I can see this being very useful! Nice work, Angus!

Two features that might help fit this into our workflow are:

• ability to export the rsvp list (data explorer query would be fine)
• ability to limit registration to certain groups (maybe this can be handled using categories)

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

@Stephen

Rebuilt about 45 minutes ago, still getting the 500 error on new and existing events

Also, when I create an event with RSVP enabled and a guest limit the ‘going’ box doesn’t immediately appear. If I edit the event again and save it without making any changes then it’s visible.

Can you post a screenshot of

• the line for discourse events in /admin/docker, including the commit

• the site setting “events rsvp”

@Francois_Douville

If I just have a day but no time for an event, is it possible to not display 00:00 ?

This is not easy to reproduce. Can you link me to an example of it on your forum? Thanks. Also please post all your current settings for events here. Use the > Hide details feature so the post isn’t huge.

@tobiaseigen

• ability to export the rsvp list (data explorer query would be fine)
• ability to limit registration to certain groups (maybe this can be handled using categories)

Yup, both of these are doable. It’s relatively common to have the ability to export a list of attendees, so I may just make it a native feature.

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

@ChrisBeach

in desktop mode, when selecting an events-enabled category, the event date button is unclickable due to it being rendered behind the preview pane:

I’ve fixed this and other style issues.

https://github.com/angusmcleod/discourse-events/commit/e5daabf9fa630c6e0bb18b5595bad670fa2bd466

[Francois_Douville (François Douville)]

@angus

This is not easy to reproduce. Can you link me to an example of it on your forum? Thanks. Also please post all your current settings for events here. Use the > Hide details feature so the post isn’t huge.

I found that choosing “all day” do not show hours. Is it the solution? Because I can’t just not choose hours.

Settings

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

@Francois_Douville

I found that choosing “all day” do not show hours. Is it the solution?

Yup, if you want to post just a date without a time then use the all day setting.

[tobiaseigen]

@angus I’d be glad to try out the RSVP functions on your sandbox but it doesn’t seem to be working right now.

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

Hm. What are you seeing? I just tried it with a couple of different users on my phone and it worked ok.

[tobiaseigen]

Some sort of wizard already completed message.

[Stephen]

@angus

Can you post a screenshot of

• the line for discourse events in /admin/docker, including the commit

• the site setting “events rsvp”

After another rebuild it’s behaving, although I note that it’s possible to enable RSVP on events without the ‘events rsvp’ site setting enabled, which also returns HTTP500.