nextcloud / nextcloud/calendar

Searchable and viewable calendars

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1. to develop enhancement Feature: Calendar list
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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

At Nextcloud we are used to that everyone shares their calendar with everyone. This makes it easy to coordinate appointments with external people if I can quickly lookup the calendar of a colleague. Having the option to enable additional calendars of your colleagues and having a joint few makes it easier to find empty slots that work for everyone than the "free-busy" feature. Especially if I don't want to setup a meeting but just want to tell someone else which dates should work for a meeting. Also it is sometimes helpful if I can search for a specific event in a calendar of a colleague.

But with the growth of Nextcloud this comes to a limit. The number of shared calendars gets more and more, caldav sync becomes bigger and bigger and they also "spam" other stuff like the task app, etc.

Describe the solution you'd like
  • Setting below "Internal link" in the "Edit calendar" modal: "Show calendar to registered accounts in the 'Open calendars' dialog"
    • Place it in this menu even though the calendars will show in the "Shared calendars" entry, because otherwise people will have to look through too many menus to find what they are looking for.
  • Entry "Add open calendars" in the "+" menu, above "New subscription from link"
    • Opens a dialog "Add open calendars" for listing and adding open calendars
Original idea

My idea: Have a concept similar to Talk rooms which are searchable for logged in users. This would mean people could search for my calendar and look into it if needed and afterwards close it again without having it permanently shared.

As a additional feature we could distinguish between making it searchable/viewable with all details (so that I really see all entries) and a "privacy" mode where I only see the appointments in the calendar without a title and without all the other details like description, location, etc. But this would be a nice to have addition when we reached the first step.

Describe alternatives you've considered

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Research direction

Start by tracing the existing Edit calendar modal and the "+" menu, then review how shared calendars are listed and added. Done means registered users can mark calendars open, search and add them through the "Add open calendars" dialog, and view the selected calendars without relying on broad CalDAV sharing.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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