Cant use showEnd icloud cal

[sdetweil]

@evroom said in Cant use showEnd icloud cal:

The number of test cases seems endless.

indeed… calendar is a tricky beast

Do I remove the earlier changes ((lines 437 and 439) before changing line 415 ?
no… the end of this change is just before the prior , match up that last line

working on getting this into the update now, creating testcases!

[sdetweil]

I have posted an updated fixcaldates2

this also resolves the showEndsOnlyWithDuration
and adds support for showEnd:true with full day events (non-repeating)
like vacation mon-fri, all day

just

git pull

to update…
this is my fork, not the official pull request at this time

if you are just getting this for the 1st time. do

git clone https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror.git newmm
cd newmm
git checkout fixcaldates2
npm run install-mm

[evroom]

@sdetweil

Sam,

The option showEndsOnlyWithDuration is not described yet on https://docs.magicmirror.builders/modules/calendar.html.

The interaction / dependancy with showEnd also needs to be documented.

I do not know if documentation issues also can / should be done on https://github.com/MagicMirrorOrg/MagicMirror.

[evroom]

@sdetweil

Sam,

Whilst testing your last changes, I sort of see a need for a new date format parameter.
For an event with duration, spanning multiple days.
E.g. spanningDayEventDateFormat.

[TestCal: TIMESPAN_HOLIDAY]

BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20241125T110000Z
DTEND:20241127T160000Z
DTSTAMP:20241026T091719Z
UID:1lk06o70p9bp21ln3pdfda4ng0@google.com
CREATED:20241026T090035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241026T090035Z
SEQUENCE:0
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:TestCal: TIMESPAN_HOLIDAY
TRANSP:OPAQUE
END:VEVENT

For events with duration. spanning one night, like an overnight flight, it is not really necessary, but not really bad either.

[TestCal: OVERNIGHT_FLIGH]

BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20241202T190000Z
DTEND:20241203T030000Z
DTSTAMP:20241026T091719Z
UID:0s4flhmaf7p6q5atemshns4upp@google.com
CREATED:20241026T090148Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241026T090215Z
SEQUENCE:0
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:TestCal: OVERNIGHT_FLIGHT
TRANSP:OPAQUE
END:VEVENT

The reasoning behind it is following:
For a ‘normal’, single, event I am not really interested in the full end date format (dateEndFormat).
That is why I normally use dateEndFormat: "HH:mm".
But for an event with duration, spanning multiple days, the setting dateEndFormat: "ddd MMM D - HH:mm" makes more sense.

dateFormat: “ddd MMM D - HH:mm”
dateEndFormat: “HH:mm”
fullDayEventDateFormat: “ddd MMM D”
[good for normal events, ‘bad’ for spanning events]:

dateFormat: “ddd MMM D - HH:mm”
dateEndFormat: “ddd MMM D - HH:mm”
fullDayEventDateFormat: “ddd MMM D”
[‘bad’ for normal events, good for spanning events]:

I hope I could explain it well enough.
And that it makes sense. :-)

Best regards,

E.J.

[sdetweil]

@evroom there is a documentation repo

[evroom]

@sdetweil said in Cant use showEnd icloud cal:

@evroom there is a documentation repo

Found it:

https://github.com/MagicMirrorOrg/MagicMirror-Documentation/issues

[evroom]

@evroom said in Cant use showEnd icloud cal:

@sdetweil said in Cant use showEnd icloud cal:

@evroom there is a documentation repo

Found it:

https://github.com/MagicMirrorOrg/MagicMirror-Documentation/issues

Opened:
https://github.com/MagicMirrorOrg/MagicMirror-Documentation/issues/266

[sdetweil]

@evroom and thinking about it, i think i just messed up the implementation (Which was broken already)

showEnd:true

should show the end for all events fullday or not

showEndsOnlyWithDuration:true should NOT show the end for full day events but DO show end for others ( because of showEnd:true)

[sdetweil]

@evroom i replied there

[sdetweil]

@evroom I just posted an update to fix showEndsOnlyWithDuration

doc added