Expanding on the new Event Format

[sdenike]

Thanks for adding this in! I just tested, and it works great! I am hoping that you might be up for making it a bit more granular?

I was envisioning something like this so when you have multiple sports merged together into the calendar you would be able do preface each kind

`kids/sports.ics:
title: Kids Sports Schedules
urls:
# Shared Misc Schedule
- url_event_format: "🏆 %s" # Optional
- single_event_format: "" # Optional
- https://URL.TO.COMBINED.MISC.SCHEDLE/schedule.ics

# Basketball (This would display something like "🏀 Kid 1 Basketball Game")
- url_event_format:"🏀 %s"  # Optional

# Kids 1 Basketball
- single_event_format: "Kid 1"  # Optional
- https://URL.TO.KID_1.BASKETBALL/schedule.ics

# Kids 2 Basketball
- single_event_format: "Kid 2"  # Optional
- https://URL.TO.KID_2.BASKETBALL/schedule.ics

# Football (This would display something like "🏈 Football Game")
- url_event_format: "🏈 %s"  # Optional

# Kids 1 Football
- https://URL.TO.KID_1.FOOTBALL/schedule.ics

# Kids 2 Football
- https://URL.TO.KID_2.FOOTBALL/schedule.ics

# Golf
# Kids 1 Golf (This would display something like "Kid 1 Golf Practice")
- single_event_format: "Kid 1"  # Optional
- https://URL.TO.KID_1.GOLF/schedule.ics

`

I hope that all makes sense, how I sketched it out, mainly just being able to specify in general the main new combined calendar, and then each event for the calendars that are being merged into it.

There is a work around to this by making new shared subscription URLs for each event, and adding the event format to those, and then using those new subscribe URL's to make a further combined URL, like calendar inception but that seems like it could get messy if it was simply possible to add the event formats to individual URLs when they are being merged in the first place.

Fingers crossed that you think this is doable, and something you feel like adding to it 😀 ... again, it works fine as it is now with this new addition, I guess I am just being picky wanting it more granular with what I feel would be an easier config file than the workaround I was thinking. Happy Holidays and if I dont see anything between now and New Years, Happy New Years as well!

*btw you should add a donate link to the Repository 😉

[Jojodicus]

Great to see you enjoying the new features! Since then, I'm using it myself and am looking forward to less "what is this event for?" discussions 😄

As for your suggestion, it can be done, though to be honest I don't see myself implementing it in the near future. As you've noticed, it can already be accomplished by making another calendar (can be kept private with a dot prefix) and referencing that in the combined one.

The urls right now are stored as as an array of, well, URLs. If we want to extend it to allow for more options per URL (which is a nice feature, maybe there are more things we want to add later down the line), the idea would be to do something similar to what Ansible does with their roles (if you've never heared of Ansible, that's fine, just the structure is important):

calendar.ics:
  urls:
    - https://your.domain/c.ics # as usual
    - url: https://another.domain/c.ics # new one
      event_format: "Custom %s"

Can be a bit tricky to remember the placement for the dashes, but as long as it's documented well enough I don't see a problem.

As for donations, for the moment I'm quite good financially luckily.
I'd much rather you give the money to people/children actually in need of help.

And another huge thanks for all your creative ideas, it really means a lot to me.
Anyway, merry late Christmas and a happy new year 👋🏼

[sdenike]

Sorry for not replying sooner to this, I have used Ansible but it has been ages. I might need to pick up Go when time allows so I can try to submit pull requests instead of throwing all my ideas directly at you 😀

All good! I just thought I would mention it in case others find it helpful as well, so you can have a free coffee while chasing down a bug or adding a feature that is requested.

And no, thank you for making this! Timing was perfect as I was on the search for something to resolve the calendar issues that I was having with maintaining so many subscriptions in Apple Calendar. I am sure my coworkers were getting tired of me grumbling, trying to find a solution, now they are probably just annoyed to keep hearing about this software and how it works so well, ha! Hope you had a great Xmas and New year!