Events Plugin 📆

[fzngagan (Faizaan Gagan)]

We aren’t developing new features for this plugin. We’ve depricated this in favour of the Official Events feature in the discourse-calendar plugin.

[fzngagan (Faizaan Gagan)]

I don’t think there’s an agenda style topic list in the official plugin yet.

[downey (Michael Downey)]

Does anyone know if there’s a new link that formerly contained the content at https://thepavilion.io/t/subscribing-to-events-ical-and-rss-feeds/2883 has gone?

When this plugin is running in a restricted category, we see:

… but the documentation link is broken and generates a 404. I looked around the site in question and here too, but didn’t know if there was some other home for this user instruction.

[fzngagan (Faizaan Gagan)]

We moved that topic to a closed category somehow. Need to bring it back to public. We’ll discuss and get back soon.

p.s.
The page should be back now.

[fzngagan (Faizaan Gagan)]

Guys, I’ve started working on a migration script from the Events plugin to the Official Discourse Calendar events plugin. Its starting to look good, but I need some feedback to get it to a stage where it is production ready.

Its sitting on a branch migration currently.

Here’s the info:

Create a migration script from Events to Discourse Events

[Rhidian (Rhidian Bramley)]

@angus

Please take a moment to consider whether the new Event features in the Discourse Calendar plugin made by the Discourse team are right for you. If they meet your needs, we recommend using that plugin. You should only use this plugin if you’ve already first considered Discourse Calendar.

Hi @angus. I’m struggling to get an effective side-by-side comparison between of functionality this and the now official Discourse events plugin.

I’ve use your impressive events pluggin on one site and am pleased with how that’s worked. Are they compatible if I migrate from one to the other or will I lose the events?

I’ve recently started another site and I’m wondering whether I’d be better using the official one. I’m on a hosted forum so would need to ask to swap out plugins. Is there a post of blog comparing the features somewhere? I’m worried by the implication this version will no longer be supported or developed.

[nathankershaw]

@Rhidian

I’m worried by the implication this version will no longer be supported or developed.

With good reason - as per Angus in the OP:

@angus

Please take a moment to consider whether the new Event features in the Discourse Calendar plugin made by the Discourse team are right for you. If they meet your needs, we recommend using that plugin. You should only use this plugin if you’ve already first considered Discourse Calendar.

We made the move ages ago. Unfortunately the Discourse team has had other priorities and have not been working on the Discourse Events plugin for a while. Many of us are impatiently awaiting some more development as we see the potential!!

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

Hey @Rhidian,

@Rhidian

Are they compatible if I migrate from one to the other or will I lose the events?

@fzngagan Is currently working on, and getting close to completing a migration script to transfer events from our plugin to the Discourse Event plugin. You can follow the progress on that here

Create a migration script from Events to Discourse Events

@Rhidian

I’m worried by the implication this version will no longer be supported or developed.

As @nathankershaw mentioned, our poicy for the plugin, as stated in the OP is that we encourage people to consider the other plugin as we won’t be actively developing this plugin. We will be maintaining it in its current state for the foreseeable future, however as we are supporting some specific use cases that are not supported by the other plugin. If that plugin adds support for those use cases we will deprecate this plugin entirely and migrate some folks to the other one, using the migration script that Faiz has been working on.

We use the Discourse Event plugin internally, not this one. Personally, I also think it’s a better plugin from a technical perspective.

@Rhidian

Is there a post of blog comparing the features somewhere?

The closest thing to that is this post of mine

Discourse Event

@joffreyjaffeux After looking more closely at the code and functionality, I just want to reiterate that I like what you’ve done here For example, I was initially worried about the use case of editing an existing event, which I thought might need to be done via markdown. However you’ve added that neat menu for the cooked content. Nice work. Here are some initial thoughts on the current plugin and roadmap. Event v Date v Calendar If you just install the discourse-calendar plugin…

[Rhidian (Rhidian Bramley)]

Thanks @angus That’s very helpful.

[nicopace (Nicolás Pace)]

Another issue is that when you have a lot of people RSVP’ing, the css breaks.
This is what I have:

[fzngagan (Faizaan Gagan)]

I think you intended to post it to 🗓 Discourse Event

[nicopace (Nicolás Pace)]

yes indeed. sorry for the noise. please remove if possible. thanks!

[Marvelxy (Marvelous Akpotu)]

@angus does the plugin work with tags and tags intersection?

I will read through while I await your response.

[nathankershaw]

I’ve noticed that the development of the Event features in the Discourse Calendar plugin appears to have stopped. You’ll note that it is now referred to as ‘alpha’:

@vinothkannans

Events

Currently an events feature is live in the plugin, but consider it in alpha state. For more information on Events see Discourse Event

While it was looking very promising, and indeed we abandoned this plugin for it, it is missing a couple of key features which really limits its utility. They are:

1. Interacting with a user’s email calendar via pushing out .ics files
2. A richer way of displaying all events.
3. General spit and polish

Would you consider reviving this plugin? Or even better, looking at doing some work on Event features in the Discourse Calendar plugin ?

I believe (perhaps naively) that we could raise funds to do this.

[HAWK]

I don’t believe we will be doing further work on this plugin but we do definitely have plans to do additional work on the Events piece. I have opened that other topic so that we can continue discussion.

[RGJ (Richard - Communiteq)]

I don’t know if this is a bug or if I am missing some kind of integration, but how is the Subscribe button supposed to work? When I click it I see two (partial) URLs but I am unable to interact with this in any way?

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

If you’re on the latest version of the plugin and Discourse tests-passed, when you click the links they’ll be copied to your clipboard. You’ll see a little green flag next to the modal (above it on mobile)

See further

Unable to easily copy subscription links

You can see it working here

Discourse

[RGJ (Richard - Communiteq)]

I see, thank you!

Maybe the mouse pointer needs to change on hover to indicate that this is a possibility?

[vincentp (Vincent)]

This plugin is breaking the reply preview

Post Preview not working because of events plugin

In my case the instance is using the Default theme.

[OldRoutard]

@vincentp

plugin is breaking the reply preview

… and other functions, when the reply / post has been initiated by clicking the grey “Reply” button of a previous post.
@angus , @fzngagan Thanks for what you can do!