Hi Angus! I just did a test of your events plugin on your sandbox, and like the interface! Following up on @ron_jeremy’s suggestions above… some feedback below. Sorry if all of this has been suggested before. I read through this entire topic and see I repeated alot of requests - oops. added links where relevant, hope it helps.
- it would help if, as soon as the start time/date has been set, the end time/date would be set to be the same. it could then be left as is (to have no end time/date) or updated by the user to set the end time/date
- I am missing an “all day” tickbox when adding events that are all day events like @allanlasser
- I am missing time zone information here when entering events and viewing the events in the agenda.
- I am missing a calendar view directly in discourse. I realize it’s probably too much work to be worth it but it would be nice to see a similar interface as google calendar e.g. weekly, monthly, annual calendar view. (like @meglio mentioned above and @supernaturally mentioned too - with screenshots)
- on the agenda view, I am missing the ability to toggle the chronological sort order of events (newest first, last first)
- in my community, many topics across the community are about events with dates… but I think it might be a bit overkill to allow every member to add them to their topics. it might also be distracting. so maybe allow events across all categories but limit the ability to add event dates to staff or by trust level? we could then add the dates later. or put it a toggle in the composer options when editing the OP for a topic, to bury the feature so it is less distracting/confusing? (your location plugin options could also be buried in this way, perhaps) Edit: ah, I see this is being discussed over there. here’s my reply.
- it would be sweet to provide a calendar subscription feed url that can be added to e.g. google calendar - like screenshot below. Perhaps this could have url methods for adding all events to your google calendar or only events in specific categories. e.g.
SITEURL/events.ics(all topics with events dates) orSITEURL/events/soccer.ics(just topics with events dates in the soccer category) etc. A link to subscribe would be on the agenda view. like @Tom_Newsom mentioned above. - some sort of notification or nudge to people when a scheduled event is coming up would be interesting. e.g. if I like or reply to the event topic then it is assumed I am interested - maybe I could have a user preference setting to indicate if, when and how I’d like to be reminded of the event (by email, by notificaition, by some sort of banner or popup)
