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calendar: Make calendar secrets work if they contain hyphens

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backend enhancement
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JavaScript
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Description

Our auto-generated secret links are random letters and numbers only. But sometimes when we create an edit link for someone by hand, it's useful to have a more readable link like https://shift2bikes.org/addevent/edit-99999-not-very-secret. Right now, if the secret contains a hyphen as in not-very-secret only the portion before the first hyphen will be interpreted as the secret (not). The result is that the link can't actually be used to manage the event, because the event can't be updated without the correct secret.

We can just stop including hyphens in secrets as a short-term solution, but longer term it would be nice to handle those.

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Start at the calendar edit-link entry point /addevent/edit-... and trace how the secret is parsed. Reproduce the failure with not-very-secret, then verify that the complete hyphenated secret is accepted and the event can be updated.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
web-dev
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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