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Make it easier for people to add Backdrop-related events to their calendars #1005

Open jenlampton opened 1 year ago

jenlampton commented 1 year ago

For people wanting to add individual events to their own personal calendar, backdropcms.org/news/events doesn't provide a way to do that. And It's a multiple step process to add a calendar item even if you're using Google Calendar.

We should find a way to add an "Add to my calendar" button to any event node on b.org. In the other issue someone suggested https://github.com/backdrop-contrib/addtocal.

This is a follow-up to https://github.com/backdrop-ops/backdropcms.org/issues/890

olafgrabienski commented 1 year ago

An actively maintained alternative to the "Add to Cal" module is Views iCal Export:

Using this module, you can attach an iCal feed to your views' page, so visitors are able to add your events to their calendar and get them updated automatically.

yorkshire-pudding commented 1 year ago

I've tested addtocal but it isn't working. I've raised a couple of issues.

I'm not sure that Views iCal Export is suitable unless someone wants all the events of a view. This might work if we have suitable filtering of the view and that can be used to define a feed.