There is a chrome extension that allows you to see the duration of the events and it is very useful.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/event-durations-for-google/elfoibhncineionfonglaickdliaikmj

Would it be possible to have a similar option in your plugin?

Thank you very much for the plugin

First step towards bi-directional syncing is a one-way sync to let your events from GCal show up in your Obsidian Full Calendar view. Will be configurable in settings, where each calendar has a source that is either local (directory in vault) or remote (GCal feed URL).

I've upgraded to the latest released version (on BRAT). I don't have any more details than that, but will happily help debug if you point me where to look :)

Task-style events would be very useful for time blocking and other cases where you need to know whether the task has been completed within the timeframe or not.

Perhaps using Yaml frontmatter like task: true or taskEvent: true

This is a VERY PROMISING plugin. Thanks for developing it.
I have my meeting notes organized in folders. Would be great if I could add the frontmatter metadata to any note in my vault and the calendar would pick it up.

Sorry if this is not in the scope of this plugin.
The idea is to do something when the event start, such actions include :

• notification pop up
• executing templater scripts
• other actions that I haven't thought of

The 'New Event' Screen

Requests:

1. Have 'Calender Widget' display by default - So I like to follow a policy of #each_click_counts. If we can reduce the number of times a user has to click on the screen, it improves the user experience. Now, if I press 'Ctrl+P' and type 'New Event' and hit 'Enter', that's a really good start to the workflow. However, if I'm going to pick a date I'm almost certainly going to click the little 📅Calender icon next to the input box. Here's my suggestion: Have the Calender-Input-Widget display by default on the 'New Event' screen. It reduces a click and adds a visual.
   Mockup image included for demonstration purposes . Made in MS Paint to demonstrate how it would look like.

2. Remove 'Recurring Event' from 'New Event' screen - I only add a recurring event once every 7 years, I don't need to see this every time I want to create a new event. Find some other place to keep it. Keep the 'New Event' screen cleaner.
   

❤️ Thank you

Describe the bug
Copying the inline DataviewJS query into a note produces an error that eventClick can't be destructured from the undefined object. I believe this is because the renderCalendar API changed somewhere around a3bfa1d .

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to a new note
2. Add this:

```dataviewjs
const { renderCalendar } = app.plugins.plugins["obsidian-full-calendar"];
let calendar = renderCalendar(this.container, [{startDate: "2022-01-26", startTime: "17:00", endTime: "22:00", id: "id", title: "This is an event"}]);
calendar.render();
```

3. View rendering.

Expected behavior
The hardcoded event to be rendered.

Console Errors

Evaluation Error: TypeError: Cannot destructure property 'eventClick' of 'undefined' as it is undefined.
    at renderCalendar (eval at <anonymous> (app://obsidian.md/app.js:1:1278841), <anonymous>:44875:54)
    at eval (eval at <anonymous> (eval at <anonymous> (app://obsidian.md/app.js:1:1278841)), <anonymous>:2:16)
    at DataviewInlineApi.eval (eval at <anonymous> (app://obsidian.md/app.js:1:1278841), <anonymous>:15671:16)
    at evalInContext (eval at <anonymous> (app://obsidian.md/app.js:1:1278841), <anonymous>:15672:7)
    at asyncEvalInContext (eval at <anonymous> (app://obsidian.md/app.js:1:1278841), <anonymous>:15682:32)
    at DataviewJSRenderer.render (eval at <anonymous> (app://obsidian.md/app.js:1:1278841), <anonymous>:16267:19)
    at DataviewRefreshableRenderer.maybeRefresh (eval at <anonymous> (app://obsidian.md/app.js:1:1278841), <anonymous>:15995:26)
    at t.e.tryTrigger (app://obsidian.md/app.js:1:762637)
    at t.e.trigger (app://obsidian.md/app.js:1:762570)
    at t.trigger (app://obsidian.md/app.js:1:1257953)

Additional context

I was able to fix it somewhat by providing an empty function handler for eventClick, but I think it may need some modification to fit with the current paradigm.

const { renderCalendar, settings } = app.plugins.plugins["obsidian-full-calendar"];
let calendar = renderCalendar(this.container, settings.calendarSources, 
                                { eventClick: () => {} });
calendar.render();

For instance, this doesn't do the filtering for .ics etc, and also results in CORS errors for remote google calendar secret URLs.

Could we have the ability to change the first day of the week (Monday/Sunday), and the time format in the timegrid/events to 24h, please?

It works from subfolders of the Vault.

This is my settings page:

This is the data.json generated by the plugin:

{
  "calendarSources": [
    {
      "type": "local",
      "directory": "/",
      "color": null
    }
  ],
  "defaultCalendar": 0,
  "recursiveLocal": true,
  "eventsDirectory": "/"
}

When I changed this, removing the "/" for the root folder, the error was resolved and the calendar opened correctly.
Are you using Obsidian normlizePath?

{
  "calendarSources": [
    {
      "type": "local",
      "directory": "",
      "color": null
    }
  ],
  "defaultCalendar": 0,
  "recursiveLocal": true,
  "eventsDirectory": ""
}

Hello! I just installed the plugin via BRAT and opened the calendar and it opened a empty page save for the message Error: the events directory was not a directory.

~~I checked the console but didn't see anything relevant, I'm assuming that the installation didn't create an events directory correctly? I can try and manually create one if it'll help! ~~

My obsidian version is 0.13.23, and I'm on 0.1.2 of this plugin. The only steps to recreate is installing the plugin via BRAT, enabling it, and opening the full calendar (via ribbon icon or command)

Thank you in advance!! Let me know if there's anything else I can do to further investigate this

NEVERMIND I just realized I needed to add the an events folder in the settings! Still, the error text is a bit confusing and I think it should be made clearer! Also, adding this step to the instructions will also help a lot!

For small events like "go for a run" It seems a bit excessive to create a whole note just for that purpose.

Would be nice to have the option of adding calendar entries that are simply text.
Entries that don't have to point to a note in the vault.

Say there is a project that you work on, on different days at different times (i.e. not a recursive event), but you don't want to create separate files. Would be great if I could add dates and times to an event to display them on the calendar at different times.

One way you could do this is by allowing multiple values for startTime, endTime, and date. Like this:

---
title: demo project
allDay: false
startTime: ["10:00", "13:30", "09:30"]
endTime: ["12:30", "18:00", "11:15"]
date: ["2022-02-20", "2022-02-21", "2022-03-01"]
---

Create internal links to pages representing people based on the name or email included on the event.

@tylerwince's example from the comments on #1

Example:

If I have a page called Tyler Wince.md and it has the following contents:

---
email: [email protected]
---
Some notes about Tyler here

Then a calendar event which contains [email protected] as an attendee would automatically link to the Tyler Wince.md page.

This might also be a feature that people want exposed locally -- allowing easy linking to attendees from the edit modal. I think the better solution for that would be to add a Markdown editor within the edit modal.

This is just text in the top-left corner of the view right now. It should look more like the "no open note" screen that ships with Obsidian.

Right now, there's hardcoded views for desktop (month, week, day, week list) and mobile (3 day, 1 day, week list). This should be configurable by the user in settings.

As features get added, it's going to get more difficult to navigate in the README. Eventually should move documentation to its own website.

Some documentation generators:

• MkDocs
• Docusaurus
• Hugo with a documentation-oriented theme

Perform actions on events by right-clicking, like

• Delete event
• Open note
• Move event (once multiple calendars is added)
• Open daily / weekly / monthly note: #6

Most common would be Sunday (current default) or Monday.

Generated from #1.

Events are stored as Notes in Obsidian and kept in sync with a selected Google Calendar. This will likely be a pretty involved and large project involving OAuth and the GCal API. Strategies for resolving conflicts between the local Obsidian copy and the Google Calendar copy of an event will need to be fleshed out.

I see that currently we can only have different colors for different calendars.
I think it would make sense to be able to set different colors for different event types within the same calendar.

I would also love for some functionality of scraping event information from the daily notes! Of course it wouldn't have the full amount of capabilities of a full event page, (dragging and dropping would probably be a pain to enable) but being able to quickly add an event name, start and end time within for a day would be amazing.

Originally posted by @wychwitch in #6 (comment)

You could specify as much event info as you want using inline dataview fields, and the plugin would "fill in the blanks" using the page's frontmatter. So you could have a page with fullCalendar_date: 2022-02-22, and then bullet points with [startTime:: 5:00pm] [endTime:: 7:15pm] would be able to be populated on the calendar.

You would be able to edit any field specified in-line from the calendar as well. But page-wide fields would be locked. To move an event to a different date in this example, you would have to manually move it to a different note.

Relying on custom frontmatter means that you could easily integrate this with your daily note / periodic note templates, but you're not locked into those formats.

Download a .ics file from a URL specified in settings and display the events on the calendar. This would enable one-way sync in the following scenarios:

• Non-public Google Calendar sync using the iCal format "secret link". Right now the plugin is using the GCal integration for FullCalendar, which requires the Calendar Group ID that is only usable when the calendar is public.
• iCloud Calendar sync
• Add any public calendar from anywhere on the internet -- .ics is a super common format!

Although at some point the idea is to do two-way sync, a short term but very useful thing could be to support creating a note for an event. This could possibly be "on-demand", e.g if no matching note is found for a given synced event than nothing happens, and then if you click on an event you are given the option to create a note for it.

Ultimately, two-way sync pretty much covers this case, but this could be a good stepping stone along the way.

Thanks for your hard work on this! Love this extension.

Would be nice if we can directly drag and drop a note to the calendar.
Maybe we can even make the plugin directly create the frontmatter fields necessary or detect existing ones.

I have tried the following:

1. Renaming of the event in the modal. It changes the title property in the YAML-FM of the event but does not change the file name.
2. Renaming of the event's file name. It does not rename the event in the FC view.

It would be great if you could implement both approaches.

From @Welding-Torch on #10:

I only add a recurring event once every 7 years, I don't need to see this every time I want to create a new event. Find some other place to keep it. Keep the 'New Event' screen cleaner.

I don't think removing it entirely is a great idea, but you're right that it's not as common a usecase (especially since recurring events, well, repeat, and so you only set it up once). I'd be very interested in a redesign of the new/edit event modal.

Describe the bug
Cannot add new event in week view.

Clicking "Save Event" does not close pop-up window or populate calendar with new event. Create event pop-up remains visible after "Save Event" click. Still able to edit event fields in pop-up so app not frozen.

Have tried clicking "Save Event' with blank title field and get an expected "Please fill out this field." error prompt.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Open Calendar in Week view.
2. Click on "cell" for a day and time
3. Expected event definition pop-up appears.
4. Added Title, leaving everything else as default values.
5. Click on "Save Event"

Expected behavior
Expected "Save Event' click to close pop-up window and populate calendar.

Screenshots

Console Errors
Go to View->Toggle Developer Tools and open up the JavaScript console, reproduce your bug, and copy/paste any logs you see there.

Do not find the View->Toggle Developer Tools function in Obsidian.

**Device info

• OS: Manjaro Linux 5.15.25-1 & KDE Plasma Version 5.24.2
• Plugin Version 0.4.5
• Obsidian Version v0.13.23

To Reproduce

Arrow to change Month/Day blacked out after selection- see below

Device info (please complete the following information):

• OS: iPadOS 15.3
• Plugin Version 0.5.1

Only show 8am-6pm, for example. Useful for work hours, etc.

I have tried the following:

1. Opening the modal does not provide the option to delete an event.
2. Deleting the event in the "events" folder does not remove the entry in the FC view.
3. Right-click does not offer the option to delete the event. In fact, the right-click is currently not supported.

It would be fantastic if you could implement all three options.

I'd love if we could get iCloud Calendar sync.

Any chance of that happening?

Hello,
all the best for this plugin!
It will be nice to have a better layout for mobile version. It is now impossible to switch in month view and scroll it with finger :(

Companion issue to #15. They had to be split up because Apple doesn't set the proper CORS headers on .ics files, so Chrome/Electron is preventing FullCalendar from making the request to get the calendar.

Could we have the ability to set recurrence more finely. Currently I can only get weekly recurrence to work. Monthly would be great More fine grained recurrence - fortnightly, every third Tuesday, etc would be gravy.

From @Welding-Torch in #10:

Have 'Calender Widget' display by default - So I like to follow a policy of #each_click_counts. If we can reduce the number of times a user has to click on the screen, it improves the user experience. Now, if I press 'Ctrl+P' and type 'New Event' and hit 'Enter', that's a really good start to the workflow. However, if I'm going to pick a date I'm almost certainly going to click the little 📅Calender icon next to the input box. Here's my suggestion: Have the Calender-Input-Widget display by default on the 'New Event' screen. It reduces a click and adds a visual.

Mockup image included for demonstration purposes . Made in MS Paint to demonstrate how it would look like.

I think this will be pretty hard but would be a huge UX improvement on mobile.

It'd be great if there was a version of the day/list views that could be added to either of the sidebars.

When I create a new appointment with the same title as an existing one, the existing appointment will be overwritten.

In obsidian you can move a file to a different folder with the same name. Without further inquiry obsidian will put a number at the end of the file. That might be a suitable solution for this plugin.

This plug in is a real game changer, thanks for all the work and for sharing it!
Would it be possible to add a Day View? This would make it easy to use Full Calendar for time blocking, and putting it into a sidebar with just one day showing.

From #1, @dbarenholz writes:

Any event you create in obsi plugin is pushed to a calendar in gcal, but changes in gcal aren't propagated back.

This plugin is great! Thanks for making it. Once you get tasks displaying on the calendar I’m interested in automatically scheduling them similar to
Skedpal.

I’m not sure what the best approach is for accomplishing this. Is there a way to leverage dataview blocks as a way to schedule tasks? Should I make my own plugin that provides scheduling capabilities for putting tasks into the calendar?

What are your thoughts?

It would be a nice feature to have the calendar link to the periodic-notes plugin. Opening / creating a daily note when clicking a specific day, weekly note when clicking week, etc.

I guess it's a problem here.

Right now I'm casting the result from the metadata cache to the EventFrontmatter type I use throughout the code in the getFrontmatterFromFile() function. That's a faulty assumption, and I should be validating my input. I'll open a ticket to track that bug.

Originally posted by @davish in #19 (comment)

I already tend to color code events heavily in gcal, could there be a way to import that too as opposed to using a single set color per import?

Love what this is building up to btw!

Hi!

I'd absolutely love some google calendar support. Will be happy to help out with coding as well!
Specifically, I'd like the same way that todoist supports gcal integration:

• 1 way sync FROM gcal TO obsidian => Obsidian is just a view, and non-editable.
• 1 way sync FROM obsidian TO gcal => Any event you create in obsi plugin is pushed to a calendar in gcal, but changes in gcal aren't propagated back.
• 2 way sync: obsidian and gcal are kept in sync with each other <-- my preferred method, probably also the hardest to implement.

This can be a problem. Also the option to select Google Calendar extends beyond the window, so you have to know it is there. Small things, but great plugin.