Calendar showing but can't create even with a post (settings correct)

[nathank (Nathan Kershaw)]

@long

[calendar]
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You pop that in the OP when using it ‘per-Reply’ within a Topic with a dedicated calendar - this means that you simply drop a ‘Insert date/time’ into the reply, and it will appear in that calendar. The Staff Calendar is a great example of this.

If you are using it ‘per-Topic’ with a Category (or site-wide) calendar, you add an Event (from the composer + menu) in the OP of each Topic. The option to do so doesn’t appear in replies by design.

The settings are quite confusing (especially which applies to which approach):

Discourse Calendar (and Event)

Well, here is where the plugin is a bit messy. And that is mostly due to its history. It started out life as a plugin which enabled Topic calendars. In this case, every reply on the Topic was an event (if it included a date/time). The Holiday calendar is a great example / use-case of this. Subsequently, the ability to turn the OP of a Topic into an Event (displayed on a sitewide calendar) was bolted on; this has the somewhat odd name of discourse_post_event. This can be controlled per Categor…