Display a global 'upcoming events' calendar

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Hello!
First, I wanted to thank you for this stellar plugin. We recently enabled it and it’s already seen a lot of great use and reception. One question I have is if it’s possible to have it display the upcoming events calendar that aggregates all event topics at the top of a chosen category.

For example, we currently have an Events category with a calendar at the top, but that only displays event topics created within that category. Being able to have that master calendar at the top would make it easy for folks to find and alleviate some confusion.

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I’ve got a dedicated events category, which now sorts absolutely brilliantly thanks to some great work by the CDCK team over the last year. It can display a calendar too, which is really good.

However, we do have three moderate issues that remain:

  1. It is tricky to get a topic list of all (accessible) events in the site

    • the Upcoming Events calendar does this, but without a topic list
    • I need to tag every event and then surface a tag list to achieve this (I’m sure that is automatable but it is a bit messy)

  2. If I have a calendar in my Events category, people get confused by which calendar to use.

  • also, it takes up a lot of page real estate, making the topic list difficult to read.
  1. People constantly ask me why the Site Events and the Site Calendar are on different pages

Suggestion 1

When a calendar is displayed in a Category, it is dismissable / shrinkable

Suggestion 2

That there is a sitewide calendar / topic list (also with a dismissable / shrinkable calendar) that functions the same way

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+1, that’s exactly what I meant by this post:

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agreed

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