Possibility to change event color

[pulcov]

Hi,

I think that would be a nice improvement to integrate the possibility to change the color of the single event without change calendar color.

Thanks.

[georgehrke]

please describe a use-case! I don't see how this can be useful.

[phsc84]

Me personally, I use it to make it clear at first sight, that I will be absent (e.g. marking holidays). Outlook offers this possibility. But probably something for later. No killer feature in my eyes.

[pulcov]

Change color is used to highlight item like holidays, very important appointment, ... I understand that is not a killer feature, but this is a basic feature of calendar. This fonctionnality is integrate on all calendar apps (Outlook, Google calendar, Lightning, and other).

[georgehrke]

And what's wrong with creating a dedicated calendar for holidays or very important events?

[pulcov]

No wrong, just weird especially if calendar is shared.

[phsc84]

It's possible, but then more configuration is needed for shared calendars. E.g. I have a calendar, that is synced to my mobile phone and my wife's mobile phone. Then I have to sync each dedicated calendar to each mobile phone. And everytime (ok, probably this does not happen so often) I create a new dedicated calendar, I have to touch the configuration of the mobile phones.

[georgehrke]

I don't know what mobile platform you use, but with iOS and android you only have to setup one url to sync all calendars. And sharing a calendar also takes only a few clicks ;)

I'm not really convinced.

cc @jancborchardt

[jancborchardt]

@pulcov @phsc can you show screenshots of how other platforms do this? Then we can consider. However, this certainly is low on the priority list as we have lots of basics to do right first.

[pulcov]

Google Calendar

[pulcov]

Microsoft Outlook 365

[phsc84]

Month view:

The event on the 4th has the default color of my calendar. The event on the 5th has an own event color (please note the green borders, which are derived from the calendar's default color).

[georgehrke]

Okay, so we might add this, but this is definitely nothing that will go into the initial release.

We should check how Google saves it. It's probably just an additional property inside the VEvent, we should be able to reuse it.

[phsc84]

Hm, unfortunately it is not a VEVENT property, I think.

Event on the 4th:

BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160105
DTSTAMP:20160128T144532Z
UID:[email protected]
CREATED:20160128T143327Z
DESCRIPTION:
LAST-MODIFIED:20160128T143327Z
LOCATION:
SEQUENCE:0
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:test
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
END:VEVENT

Event on the 5th:

BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160106
DTSTAMP:20160128T144532Z
UID:[email protected]
CREATED:20160128T143322Z
DESCRIPTION:
LAST-MODIFIED:20160128T143334Z
LOCATION:
SEQUENCE:0
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:test
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
END:VEVENT

The whole ICS-File (has to be renamed to .ics): [email protected]

[georgehrke]

Too bad :( Anyway, thanks for taking a look :)

[pulcov]

Outlook use categories of vevent. For each categories, it is possible to set color and label. It can be a solution to have event color while respecting the ics standard

[rschmidm]

Yes, the easiest should be to simply support event categories in the Owncloud web frontend / calendar app. The database already supports it, as I just found out: I created an event in Outlook, assigned a category "Testproject" to it, then synced to Owncloud using cfos OutlookDAV. When I downloaded the ICS file from Owncloud, it had the Category "Testproject" in, see below. Syncing to another PC with Outlook (again with OutlookDAV), the Category was shown in Outlook.

So, my suggestion is the following:

• Add a category picker in the Calendar app to assign/change categories of events
• Have a (user defined) master list of categories with a custom color for each category
• If an event has a category, display the event in the category color instead of the calendar color in the OC Calendar app

Can this be done?

Here the ICS file: BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 16.0 MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:2.0 X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:W. Europe Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:19701028T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:19700325T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Testproject CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20170203T174032Z DTEND;TZID="W. Europe Standard Time":20170202T130000 DTSTAMP:20170203T174032Z DTSTART;TZID="W. Europe Standard Time":20170202T123000 LAST-MODIFIED:20170203T174032Z PRIORITY:5 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=de-lu:Test event with category Testproject TRANSP:OPAQUE UID: X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:BUSY X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1 X-MICROSOFT-DISALLOW-COUNTER:FALSE X-MS-OLK-AUTOFILLLOCATION:TRUE X-MS-OLK-AUTOSTARTCHECK:FALSE X-MS-OLK-CONFTYPE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR

Thanks!

[thefeiter]

Is it still possible to implement the possibility for single event colors in a future version?

[DeepDiver1975]

Is it still possible to implement the possibility for single event colors in a future version?

as long as there is no standard which works across all clients I doubt that we can fix this ... :man_shrugging: