# The webcal URL is incorrectly passed to the Calendar Name field in Google Calendar

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-webcal-url-is-incorrectly-passed-to-the-calendar-name-field-in-google-calendar/400167
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** events, fixed
**Created:** [8 april 2026 om 00:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-webcal-url-is-incorrectly-passed-to-the-calendar-name-field-in-google-calendar/400167 "2026-04-08T00:09:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![nathank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nathank/32/290039_2.png) [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [8 april 2026 om 00:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-webcal-url-is-incorrectly-passed-to-the-calendar-name-field-in-google-calendar/400167/1 "2026-04-08T00:09:59Z")

</div>

This is about the new [Calendar subscription URLs for external calendar apps](https://meta.discourse.org/t/calendar-subscription-urls-for-external-calendar-apps/398902) functionality.

I notice that when I add a URL to my Google Calendar, the URL is posted to both the URL field (appropriately) and the Name field (inappropriately). This includes the user\_api\_key, which probably isn’t ideal (deliberately truncated in this image):

> ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/3/d/c/3dc4cd71d553199577606bce1aba7e7a4bec627b.png)

It isn’t too much trouble to rename the linked Calendar for a savvy user (who has many of them?), but it would make much more sense to pass through the site name instead. And my less savvy users wouldn’t freak out!

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-webcal-url-is-incorrectly-passed-to-the-calendar-name-field-in-google-calendar/400167)._