Exposing Descriptions

[jlevitsk]

Hi all. I have been playing with OWC trying to show Descriptions from the ICS feed. Has anyone done this? I searched with Google and ChatGPT and so far the thing I've found is that I need to either edit the templates in OWC or include a .js file hosted somewhere. The appliance in Cloudron seems to be read-only for the files and I imagine if I edited them I would lose the edits on upgrades so I think including the .js file that customizes it is the preferred way?

My goal is to have an event calendar for our customers. I was going to use Radicale for the calendar data and present it in OWC. That seemed fairly simple.

[girish]

@jlevitsk I think the issue is https://github.com/niccokunzmann/open-web-calendar/issues/298 . I would have liked to description to atleast appear when clicked, but it doesn't appear at all . I left a note there.

[jlevitsk]

Hi @girish so I learned something while setting up my Radicale and OWC. It seems like the calendar client publishing in to the ICS in Radicale (or wherever your ICS source lives) can matter. When I used the Calendar app on macOS I saw no descriptions. When I used Thunderbird I do. You can see it on my live page that has the OWC page in an iframe https://kb.filewave.com/books/community-engagement/page/customer-event-schedule and if you click on events in the agenda then the description shows.

I think initially I was also hoping to show description on the Agenda page without clicking on an event but originally I was bothered that I just couldn't get description to show up. So now it does at least show up when you click an event. I haven't looked at why Calendar doesn't make a summary that shows and Thunderbird does but I'm fine using Thunderbird to put events in my calendar feed.