Calendar CustomEvents

[daportelli]

Sorry for the delayed response. Work and life got in the way. I went to the regex tester and used the example from the calendar config for customEvents {keyword: ‘in Hamburg’, transform: { search: ’ in Hamburg$’ , replace: ‘’}} and I could not make it work as per the example in the documentation.

(https://fossa.com/resources/devops-tools/regex-tester/)

I also tried the other checker with a simplier transform.

(https://regex101.com/)

I am struggling to understand what I am doing wrong.

Your help is appreciated.

David

[evroom]

@daportelli said:

https://fossa.com/resources/devops-tools/regex-tester/

The ‘Regular Expression’ is your ‘search’ from the config line, hence ‘in Hamburg$’.
The ‘Replacement Pattern’ is your ‘Replace’ from the config line, hence ‘’ (nothing)
The ‘Test String’ is what is triggered by your ‘keyword’ so in this case ‘Geburtstag in Hamburg’ will trigger the search and replace.

So, fill in:
Regular Expression: in Hamburg$
Test String: Geburtstag in Hamburg
Replacement Pattern: ‘’

Then your Match will be ‘in Hamburg’ and your Highlighted will be ‘Geburtstag’ (that what remains white).

For testing search & replace on https://regex101.com, you will need to choose Function - Substitution on the left side.

Regular Expression: .in.Hamburg$
Test String: Geburtstag in Hamburg
Substitution:
This will result in: Geburtstag

This will only match on ‘in Hamburg’, so to make it more flexible you will need to make use of so called grouping:
Regular Expression: (Geburtstag).+$
Substitution: $1
This will result in: Geburtstag

[daportelli]

Thanks for explaining this in a language I can understand. I got that to work.

In my calendar I have “amex” typed in lower case and I want the transform it to upper “AMEX” to show this works.

However when I use the below code on a calendar event that only has an event titled ‘amex’ in lower case does not work.

{keyword: 'amex', transform: { search: 'amex', replace: 'AMEX'}},

This simple thing is confusing me. I have removed all variables, and it still does not work.

Thanks again for everyone help.

[sdetweil]

@daportelli I’m not sure of the effect, but the keyword is treated as a regular expression. I don’t know if single quotes make a difference

Also don’t know if js regex works the same, from the code

[evroom]

@daportelli

The comments in the code are very confusing, but I think I get it now, more or less.

Try this:

{keyword: '.*', transform: { search: 'Spotify', replace: 'Music'}},
{keyword: '.*', transform: { search: 'Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs', replace: 'Bulldogs'},

The keyword is the event title string you want to change, in format regex.
The search is the substring that you want to replace, in format regex
The replace is what will be replaced based on your search

So in this case, let’s say the event title string is:
‘Spotify play list’
Then you search the complete string (.*) for the substring from search and you replace it by the string from replace.
Hence, the event title now becomes:
‘Music play list’

I hope it is a little bit more clear.

Should it not work, then please supply a event title and in short what you want to be replaced.

[sdetweil]

@evroom keyword means find this(via regex) in the title, then work rest of customization . ONLY For events that find keyword string

.* Means all events

[evroom]

@sdetweil said:

@evroom keyword means find this(via regex) in the title, then work rest of customization . ONLY For events that find keyword string

.* Means all events

Yes, it is a double regex, right?
First look if this an event title that you would like to change, then search for the string you want to replace.
Still do not understand why the examples from the first post do not work, but for that we would need the exact event titles.

{keyword: ‘this event’, transform: { search: ‘changed’, replace: ‘modified’}

Event title: ‘we want this event to be changed’.
New title: ‘we want this event to be modified’.

Do you happen to know how to make the keyword case insensitive?
string/i or m/string/i do not work.
Neither does (?i)
which means ‘match the reminder of the pattern with the i modifier.

[sdetweil]

@evroom keyword is not insensitive and cannot be set that way.

the search can be

[daportelli]

@sdetweil to remove as many variables as I can, I have created a reoccuring event called “Spotify” and I want to change it to “Music”

And I have tried the code below with single and double quotes with no success

{keyword: '.*', transform: { search: 'Spotify', replace: 'Music'}},

For something so simple this is driving me crazy.

[sdetweil]

@daportelli ok, I just setup an event, happening every day
‘Spotify Event’

added the custom event def you showed

                {
                        module: "calendar",
                        header: "US Holidays",
                        position: "top_left",
                        config: {
                                customEvents: [
                                        { keyword:'.*', transform :{ search:'Spotify', replace:'Music'} }
                                        ],
                                calendars: [
                                        {
                                                fetchInterval: 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000,
                                                symbol: "calendar-check",
                                                url: "https://ics.calendarlabs.com/76/mm3137/US_Holidays.ics"
                                        },

and got this result

MM 2.34

I changed the customEvent definition to

{ keyword:'event', transform :{ search:'Spotify', replace:'Music'} }

and it produced the same resutlts

[sdetweil]

@daportelli Ah, you are using MMM-GoogleCalendar

which doesn’t support the text replacement

I am talking about the default module:‘calendar’