Functionality – Linked Titles

[Clifton Hepburn]

Hi,

We are using Google ics feeds.

Is it possible to add urls in Google so the Titles are clickable? and then open a marketing/information page.
or

Currently I have a link in the description field ‘Further Details’ however you need to click on the entry in the calendar and then it reveals the description field. Is it possible for the description field to be visible constantly?

I see something similar in the new masonry view coming soon V.4.3, where you can see a link straight away.

Im using the monthly view with times of classes showing.

Many thanks

[room34]

Hi… there are a couple of ways to add links to events in the iCalendar spec. One is to use the dedicated URL field, and the other is to put links into the content of the DESCRIPTION field.

I investigated how these iCalendar fields map to what’s editable in Google Calendar. It looks to me like Google Calendar does not let you set an arbitrary URL for the URL field. The best I can tell is they have dedicated that field to holding the Google Meet URL that gets generated when you click the Add Google Meet video conferencing button.

That URL is the field that ICS Calendar uses to make the event title clickable when you have the Link Titles option turned on. URLs in the description do get turned into clickable links, but they only display in the description hover box. It’s not really practical for me to program ICS Calendar to scrape URLs from the DESCRIPTION field to use as the event title link, because a description can include multiple URLs and there’s no way to know whether or not any given URL is suitable to use for this purpose.

As to your question about making the description always visible, that depends on which view you are using. The table-based views do not allow this option because it would make the layout unusable. List, Month with Sidebar, and Widget views should all show the event descriptions at all times when you have that option turned on, as long as you don’t also turn on the Details Toggle option.

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