@ben_t , your use case describes exactly the type of functionality I was hoping for… various groups could have discussion threads about their events, but through the creation of their event in their topics they would populate the Master Events calendar which contains all events from all groups. Then, readers of the main event calendar could click any item in the calendar and be take to the thread for the event.
Don’t get me wrong, as it stands, I can appreciate the idea of an event in a thread that doesn’t make it to the main events calendar (say, the small group holding planning meetings leading up to the big event on the main calendar),
However, I do think our use case would be a great feature to have as I can see a number of implementations (school sports calendars, community bulletin boards… )
As an aside. I found came across an alternative way to create the topic where you have the calendar in the first post and then reply to the calendar with dates that get added to the top post … without going into settings and counting thread numbers…
Somewhere in the first post, put
[calendar]
[/calendar]
I came across that on the [github page|Discourse Calendar and Events]
Think it might’ve been added after you posted this though.
… I’m off to figure out this business with colors! 