Comment on Easily create Events categories using the Calendar and Events plugin
Lou@meta.discourse.org 3 weeks ago
I think that with this new update, categories specified as Events Calendar Categories (Calendar and Events > Settings) now default to create event when you’re trying to create a topic. I had categories for which I wanted a calendar at the top, but many of the posts in the category will be just regular topics.
Now to create a topic the user has to “create event” then delete the event from the post, which seems counter-intuitive.
Is there something I’m missing? I’d like to have a calendar that only includes events created in that category on top of a category for which most of the topics don’t have an event.
Yes that was an intentional change. The idea being that if you’re creating an Events category with our new category creation flow that the category would be focused more on events than topics… but perhaps we need a setting that changes that default for cases like yours.
Maybe instead of create event, have a pulldown with create event/create topic. And a setting with the default.
In the meantime I took the calendar off the top of these categories.
Frankly for a subset of the categories, the users found the calendar distracting on their phones anyway, but it’d be great to have a way to see the calendar of events created in the category without always showing it.
I think that you have nailed this on the head.
I’d like to see a calendar which is concealed by default (but easily revealed) at the top of the Event category.