Angus' Events Plugin 📅

[tobiaseigen]

How many categories do you have? I would think you’d want to have a combination of categories and tags for organizing topics for your teams… even with no plugins or only official plugins you want to have some sort of hierarchy which only categories can provide. Tags are useful for making topics discoverable across categories and to some extent for admin purposes, but methinks they can’t entirely replace categories.

[Andy02 (Andy)]

@tobiaseigen 저희 계획은 페이지 URL(또는 표시된 태그 페이지)을 기반으로 태그 경로(3~5개)를 갖춘 플로팅 푸터(floating footer)를 생성/수정하는 것입니다. 이를 통해 신규 사용자를 사전에 설정된 경로를 따라 안내하고, 기존 사용자는 검색 바 헤더 플러그인을 이용해 원하는 곳으로 즉시 이동할 수 있도록 하려는 것입니다.

저희 플랫폼은 광범위한 영역을 다루고 있어, 사용자가 내비게이션에 어려움을 겪거나 어디서 시작해야 할지 압도감을 느껴 플랫폼이 거의 기능을 하지 못할 정도로 혼란을 겪는다는 보고가 지속적으로 들어오고 있습니다. 또한 모두가 Slack이나 WhatsApp(저희 비전을 실현하는 데 확장성이 부족함)을 사용할 수 없다고 불평하고 있습니다. 따라서 신규 사용자를 안내할 수 있는 정의된 경로를 코드로 구현하는 것은 이러한 사용성 문제를 해결하는 데 도움이 될 것입니다.

이 방식은 사용자가 태그를 추가하는 것만으로(예: #webdev #reactjs Contribute > UX) 자신의 그룹과 프로젝트를 쉽게 분할하고, 유연한 크로스 팀 협업을 할 수 있는 기능을 제공합니다. 이렇게 하면 세 팀이 해당 토론 및 관련 작업/캘린더를 볼 수 있게 되며, 이후 누군가가 #bobsfridayhackteam과 같은 태그를 추가할 수도 있습니다.

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[tobiaseigen]

Wow - there’s alot going on there, beyond the scope of this topic and the events plugin. I’d suggest opening a new topic in Support to ask for community input on ways to make it easier to navigate. Looks like you’re on the right track.

I think your feature request for the events plugin is to provide a CALENDAR and EVENTS link on tag pages when event topics are listed on a tag page, similar to categories. Selecting that link would display only event topics with that tag in a calendar/event view. I don’t know how hard that is to implement but I can certainly see the advantage for many communities. I would probably use it myself - on my work forum we often tag topics by location, and I can well imagine people being happy to be able to filter events to see just what’s going on in their own location.

Please go ahead and submit a feature request at https://thepavilion.io and we can flesh out the request over there. As you do, please describe your use case in as much detail as you can, including the complaints people have had about not being able to find their way to events relevant to them.

[Andy02 (Andy)]

Thank you for an excellent answer Tobias

[sunjam (james.network)]

I’m curious on if there is a way for the Discourse Events plugin to read an ical feed and add events from www.gettogether.community. This is also being discussed on their Telegram chat.

Or, to import events from other Discourse instances with the Events plugin using their ical feeds.

[fzngagan (Faizaan Gagan)]

@sunjam, thats an interesting feature to have. We manage all the work related to our plugins on

Pavilion

You can request this feature here. Request a feature

[sunjam (james.network)]

Pavilion

[davidkingham]

Anyone have an idea of why the timezone dropdown only shows UTC for me?

[bartv (Bart)]

Is there a way to make people who RSVP for an event ‘watch’ the topic? It would seem useful to have them receive updates.

[tobiaseigen]

We were just talking about event notifications over yonder. Handling this using watching is a good idea.

Pavilion

[fzngagan (Faizaan Gagan)]

Hi @bartv, that’s a really interesting feature to have. We already have event reminders in our task list and your request seems almost similar. Here’s the topic on it for Pavilion.

Pavilion

We have a long task list and we’re going to schedule/reschedule the tasks related to events plugin this week. The tasks currently on priority are,

1. Recurring Events,
2. Import events from iCal feed.

I’ll add your suggestion to the actual post at Pavilion and see when we can schedule it. You can read/watch that topic for updates on this.

[fzngagan (Faizaan Gagan)]

@davidkingham
A similar issue is reported here. Please share all the relavant details on the below link.

Pavilion

[rdprickett (Ryan Prickett)]

Just curious, what would be the best way to integrate a payment for events with this? I’m sure it would be too much to fold into the plugin, but we can have tickets for sale somewhere else… Could RSVPs be conditional on a purchase elsewhere somehow, or at least just link to it?

Plus: It would also be awesome to grant badges for events attended automatically. Would that be handled purely on the custom badge settings side, or is there something to include here? (pardon my noob-ness)

[tobiaseigen]

Those are awesome ideas! This is a third party plugin stewarded over at pavilion, where you can add Pavilion.

[fzngagan (Faizaan Gagan)]

@rdprickett

Just curious, what would be the best way to integrate a payment for events with this? I’m sure it would be too much to fold into the plugin, but we can have tickets for sale somewhere else… Could RSVPs be conditional on a purchase elsewhere somehow, or at least just link to it?

Yes, I agree with @tobiaseigen, this is an awesome idea. Please do create a feature request as suggested …

[rdprickett (Ryan Prickett)]

Thanks, I’d be happy to do that! …However, that link yields a blank white screen now after making an account

[tobiaseigen]

Yeah, I noticed that too. Sorry about that. Looks like a recent discourse update broke a bunch of pavilion plugins. I’m sure they’ll get the forms working soon.

The joys of dogfooding.

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

@rdprickett @tobiaseigen Hey guys, that Wizard should be working again now. Could you give it another shot?

[tobiaseigen]

Yep. Looks like it’s back! Thanks, Angus!

[rdprickett (Ryan Prickett)]

Thanks @angus! I just used the feature request form, but I can’t tell if it actually submitted because it shows this at the end, when I click “Done.”