[nodebb-plugin-calendar] Fully featured calendar plugin for NodeBB - Testers needed

[PitaJ]

@absurdsmash would you mind opening an issue on GitHub? It helps me track feature request more easily.

[Alex Galax]

First of all - great plugin!

I forked the plugin. But the intallation npm i <myGhUsername>/nodebb-plugin-calendar won't create the ./build build.

I want to do some changes on the templates. Whats the best practice for this?

[PitaJ]

@alex-galax the best way to override templates is probably to create a new plugin with a templates directory and a plugin.json set to {}. You can override the templates that way if you copy the calendar templates over.

[Alex Galax]

@pitaj but I can't do it in my custom theme, because its getting build first, right?

[PitaJ]

@alex-galax right, your custom theme is lowest priority.

[Alex Galax]

@pitaj hmm, the html code for displaying an event in the topic ist done in /src/lib/template.js. So can't really overwrite this way, right?

[PitaJ]

@alex-galax Hmm, yeah I guess not. What exactly do you want to change? Maybe it can be accomplished with CSS?

[Alex Galax]

@pitaj want to change the panel layout. shure, could be done in css but its not neat
best thing for my layout would be the event as a seperate post component. and for that I need to change the plugin anyways. but i still have no idea, why the fork won't install correctly

[PitaJ]

@alex-galax Using CSS would be a lot better from a maintainability standpoint. What do you mean by a separate post component?

[Alex Galax]

@pitaj that's true. I will try how far I come with pure css.
I mean, I'd like to have it as a <li component="post" element. Why isn't that html code parsed as a tpl anyways?

[PitaJ]

@alex-galax having it display as a post is going to be more difficult than you might think. It will require changing now things that just the calendar plugin I think.

I used a JS template because I was using some pretty complex logic and using a normal template would have been pretty verbose. With benchpress now, though, I'll look into switching back.

[Alex Galax]

@pitaj yeah I can imagine its not that easy. I'd probably extend data.postData.event = {...} and go from there. For now I found a css only solution.

[Alex Galax]

@pitaj said in [nodebb-plugin-calendar] Fully featured calendar plugin for NodeBB - Testers needed:

@alex-galax the best way to override templates is probably to create a new plugin with a templates directory and a plugin.json set to {}. You can override the templates that way if you copy the calendar templates over.

I created the plugin with the following structure.

nodebb-plugin-ns-theme/
├── templates/
│   └── calendar.tpl
├── package.json
└── plugin.json

plugin.json is an empty object and calendar.tpl has only some text for testing. I activated the plugin, set its position below calendar in the apc sorting settings and build everything. But its still the old calendar

it's working now. did it with a regular plugin setup.

[azeus]

Hi @pitaj is it working on 1.7.4 ? Cause it doesn't on my forum I upgraded from 1.5.0 to 1.5.3 then to 1.6.0 then to 1.7.4. Then the calendar wasn't installed at all after the upgrade, I had to install it again, and now when we click on it nothing happen. It just keep waiting.... Please advise.

[PitaJ]

@azeus it's working here for me on v1.7.5, is the calendar plugin included in the dependencies list in package.json? Are there any errors client or server side? Have you tried ./nodebb build?

[azeus]

@pitaj Thanks, I'm running 1.7.5 as well. It was saying something about package.json missing when I run npm i but I just ignored it before upgrading nodebb, maybe a big mistake?

I tried ./nodebb build now the calendar is back but still have problem with emojies not showing, any idea?

$ npm i
npm WARN saveError ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/var/www/regards/package.json'
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/var/www/regards/package.json'
npm WARN regards No description
npm WARN regards No repository field.
npm WARN regards No README data
npm WARN regards No license field.

[PitaJ]

@azeus it looks like either you aren't running npm i inside the nodebb directory, or you are running it before running ./nodebb upgrade. What problems are you having with emojis not showing?

[azeus]

@pitaj It was before the upgrade tks. Emojis are fixed now, I had to install the emojies plugins (android, apple, cubicopp, extended, one, static) and now it working.

The calendar is working as well after the ./nodebb build

Thanks again

[Kev M]

@evoixmr thanks for this. I'm glad this exists.

@Pitaj thank you for your work on this! Is it possible to have calendars by group? So if our marketing team wanted a calendar with their events, and our comms team wanted a different calendar for their events, does that exist?

[PitaJ]

@kev-m calendar events have permissions according to the category they're posted in. So, you can create a category for the marketing events, and a category for the comms events, and set the permissions accordingly. The color of the events on the calendar will match that of the categories.