CalendarExt3 - Event transformer wildcard

BKeyport

I’m wanting to take a match of “YCBM” in the description, and make whatever the title is change to “Client”. Can someone help me write the if statement to add to my transformer?

eventTransformer: (ev) => {
	if (ev.title.search("🏠") > -1) {
		ev.title = ev.title.replace("🏠 Personal Commitment", "Personal Event");
		ev.color = 'yellow';
	}
	if (ev.title.search("✈ Flight") > -1) {
		ev.title = ev.title.replace("✈ Flight", "Personal Event");
		ev.color = 'yellow';
	}
return ev
}

BKeyport

For completeness - here’s the answer:

	if(ev.description && ev.description.search("YCBM") > -1) {
       					 	ev.title = "Client"
 					}

sdetweil

@BKeyport

	if (ev.title.search("YCBM") > -1) {
		ev.title = "Client"
         }

did you mean replace ycbm w client?

sdetweil

@BKeyport search is like indexOf

       let r=ev.title.search("YCBM")
or
       let r=ev.description.search("YCBM")
        if (r > -1) {
       		ev.title = "Client"
         }

BKeyport

@sdetweil What I meant is to replace the Client’s name with “Client” - it’s a wildcard.

The “YCBM” is in the event description to help my booking manager (YouCanBook.ME) to track the bookings for me.

sdetweil

@BKeyport ok, what does ‘clients name’ look like

any examples?

BKeyport

@sdetweil

BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20250417T020000Z
DTEND:20250417T030000Z
DTSTAMP:20250215T064845Z
UID:sla6c0fbp2f6m06mscbt8961hg@google.com
CREATED:20250215T064259Z
DESCRIPTION:<p>Phone: +12015551212<br />Email: test@email.com<br />Notes: S
 pecial Request</p>\n<p><a href="">Reschedule this booking</a><br /><a href="">Cance
 l this booking</a></p>\n<p>YCBM link ref: e4c41a9e-28a5-4528-90e8-dd8a18c64
 ae5</p>
LAST-MODIFIED:20250215T064333Z
SEQUENCE:0
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:Client Name
TRANSP:OPAQUE
END:VEVENT

Web links removed, Test client deleted, so no clicky. The event title is solely the client name, but that can be adjusted if need be, I think.

sdetweil

@BKeyport ok, this should work

if(ev.description.search("YCBM")>-1){
       		ev.title = "Client"
 }

you already have the
return ev

you can
console.log(ev.description)
to make sure it is what you expect

better if mmm-logging is installed to copy the browser log to startup log

BKeyport

@sdetweil perfection, thanks. Never even thought about direct replacement - only seen more complex solutions.

BKeyport

I think we’re gonna have to call @MMRIZE in on this one. it worked initially - however, if the description is blank in any event, it’ll stop completely, and not process anything. Here’s what I got now.

				eventTransformer: (ev) => {
					if (ev.title.search("🏠") > -1) {
						ev.title = ev.title.replace("🏠 Personal Commitment", "Personal Event");
						ev.color = 'yellow';
					}
					if (ev.title.search("✈ Flight") > -1) {
						ev.title = ev.title.replace("✈ Flight", "Personal Event");
						ev.color = 'yellow';
					}
					if(ev.description.search("YCBM") > -1) {
       					 	ev.title = "Client"
 					} 
				return ev 
				},

sdetweil

@BKeyport add the test

if (

ev.description &&

BKeyport

@sdetweil That did it… Well, other than typing out event rather than ev. :)

All the same, Maybe it should be a check inside the javascript…

BKeyport

For completeness - here’s the answer:

	if(ev.description && ev.description.search("YCBM") > -1) {
       					 	ev.title = "Client"
 					}

sdetweil

@BKeyport sorry, phone decided to autocorrect for me.

but you got it. this IS javascript. without the test, the transformer crashed

BKeyport

@sdetweil right - what I’m saying is that maybe it should be in the module’s JS, rather than the config’s JS.

Seems trivial to add a safeguard to automatically check for empty items before the transformer gets it. Might also protect against other bugs that way, thus improving the overall product.

sdetweil

@BKeyport ah, but description is an optional field