@angus: I have thought a little bit about my issue with the new topic title declaration.
To keep all my previous topic titles unchanged, I just need the possibility to remove the text in āevents event label short formatā.
But if I do so, Iāve still found some (very long) unfomated date and time information in my topic list.
It would be great, if some function interpret an empty format field field as āshow no date/time infoā at all.
Wish you a nice weekend so far!
My suggestion would be that you create a rake task or database query to search for topics with that scheme in the title and then enable events with dates for matching titles. It might get complicated but would not require Angus to put in work that he doesnāt need for his own purposes, and without extending the events plugin unnecessarily. Itās already full of some pretty amazing functionality and if he works on it more Iād prefer it if he added improvements to the RSVP feature. It has so much promise. 
I donāt know how to create this query, but I think alot of people (including me) would benefit from it. Maybe Angus can give you some pointers.
Sure, a rake task could handle this as well. Maybe? Actually, I donāt know, what will happen. I have no experience with that and destroying the database with no experience on a productive system is more than a fail.
But what I can say is, that some kind of āif-then-elseā routine at the right line of code, would be much easier and other people like me, would also benefit from this.
IF (
events event label short format) IS EMPTY
THEN replace ($date and $time valuein topic lists) with (``)
OTHERWISE (do nothing and interpret the format as usual)
I really appreciate any kind of help.
Sure, thatās reasonable. Iāve made that change.
https://github.com/angusmcleod/discourse-events/commit/4d0aef6764d989cbfe7cb787b0eb58bf50888a90
Thank you @angus ! This helps me a lot.
Bug: Not sure why, but on Mobile Safari, Discourse is showing the agenda still with date values.
Missing setting: I donāt know how this area is officially called, but I guess, if you could integrate the Events date edit button to this area, it would be possible to instantly add date/time values and Discourse isnāt bumping up each topic to recent activities. You might know the silent minor editsā¦
After re-enabling the checkbox in category preferences, all recently edited topics are visible on the front page. This is bad, in case, I need to push new material to this category and everything old will pop-up between the new stuff.
Maybe my expectations are too high and specific. But maintaining old events is a big pain in the ass 
Iāve fixed the issue with mobile 
https://github.com/angusmcleod/discourse-events/commit/bb6fd588e3505f7fc9929e0aaa1694e0c8123985
Having an extra event control in the topic edit area has been requested in the past. Itāll happen soon.
Is there ICAL support yet? Itās not mentioned in the Media tab of the information panel in Firefox.
@angus Any news on why I canāt edit again the translations? I can improve them know that I can see them live, mostly small fixes, but the option is greyed out for me?
Yes. You can download an .ics file (āAdd to Calendarā in topic), and / or subscribe to the webcal feed (āSubscribeā on the calendar).
Sorry, Iām not sure what youāre referring to. Youāre unsure how to use Transifex?
I enabled the Agenda topic, and expected to have agenda.ics showing up in the media/feeds list of Firefox for all events mentioned there.
The ical feed is in the format webcal://{domain}/{agenda || calendar}.ics?time_zone={timezone}, e.g.
webcal://discourse.angusmcleod.com.au/agenda.ics?time_zone=Australia/Melbourne. Stick that into a ical feed service and it will work
You might need to ask Transifexās support team.
If you remove more characters does the button become active?
No, no matter how much I change I canāt save it. This happened after you accepted and pushed the translationsā¦I think they may be locked?
OK, thatās what Iām saying:
https://ps.zoethical.com/agenda.ics?time_zone=Europe/Brussels is available, and thatās fine. It assembles all events of all public projects across all categories in the site. Perfect.
But https://ps.zoethical.com/c/ps/hacklab/agenda.ics?time_zone=Europe/Brussels is not, and thatās annoying, because both agendas have nothing to do with each other: this one is/should be the specific agenda of the HCKLABXL, only relevant to the members and people attending event in Brussels, which is available using the Agenda tab.
So I would expect https://ps.zoethical.com/c/ps/hacklab/agenda.ics to serve the agenda for this specific agenda. I think itās not complicated to do, I could even have a look at it, copying whatās already working to serve the main .ics, and adapt it to look up only events in the right category. Does it sound easy to you @angus or do you expect caveats?
I wanted to share a use case for RSVP, and some ideas for improving it to support our use case.
Two weeks ago we organized Network Members Meet and Greet event in Nairobi on 16 October, 2018 - Community Discussions - Global Legal Empowerment Network Community Discussions. We made an event topic with RSVP enabled to support the event. We also sent PMs to members in Kenya alerting them to the event. Ultimately, people RSVPād in three different ways: by clicking the āGoingā button, by adding a reply to the topic or by emailing our helpdesk. We followed up with those who RSVPād with logistical details by sending a bulk pm (which we figured out how to do via the API). To support this process, we created a spreadsheet of people who RSVPād containing their names, emails, and usernames.
The meet and greet was a smashing success, and weād love to do it again when we visit various locations or even to make it easy for members to organize meetups on their own without us. But the process above was a bit cumbersome and Iām not sure weād want to do it this way very often.
Here are some ways I think RSVP functionality could be improved to support the meet and greet organization process:
Is it possible to remove the timezone ?
Hey Patrick, yes it is. You can remove timezones from event labels, by toggling these site settings:
events timezone include in topic
events timezone include in topic list
events timezone include in email
@hellekin Iāve added feed routes for sub categories
https://github.com/angusmcleod/discourse-events/commit/8b356e3e36e88a141289d60ec4c63ba6620ca262
did that:
and still i have a time zone
