Improvements for Free/Busy UI

[georgehrke]

Improvements to be added:

• Modify event time from within Free/Busy view
• Add / Remove attendees from within Free/Busy view
• Show role of attendee

[wargreen]

Sorry for reuse this issue, but is it possible to get only the the busy / free information (in a public cal, for e.g.) ?

[Laykou]

Hi, is there any progress on this? Where is the work now and what is needed to be done to have implemented free/bust feature? Thank you very much. We would really like to see this feature :) 👍

[MariusBluem]

No progress on this yet. Milestone is theoretically assigned (1.8.0) but if you want to step in and help coding - you are very welcome 🙈 @Laykou

[Laykou]

Thanks. Can you give some quick links to relevant files/ code or anything to know where to start looking? :)

[jancborchardt]

@georgehrke @tcitworld do you have any work in progress or pointers? :)

[georgehrke]

No work in progress so far.

First part of the work would be the logic part:

• dig into the CalDAV standard to see how FreeBusy requests for different users are made
• take curl (or any other tool to send http requests) to check if these requests are implemented in the Nextcloud CalDAV server
• if no: start implementing it in the server
• afterwords implement a FreeBusy service (similar to https://github.com/nextcloud/calendar/blob/master/js/app/service/calendarService.js) that sends CalDAV requests to the server to gather FreeBusy data.

[tcitworld]

take curl (or any other tool to send http requests) to check if these requests are implemented in the Nextcloud CalDAV server
if no: start implementing it in the server

As far as I can remember it didn't work out of the box with Thunderbird/Lightning or Evolution clients.

[silverhook]

I’m willing to throw some coins at this as well.

[tcitworld]

@talmage @silverhook You may use Bountysource to post a bounty on this issue : https://www.bountysource.com/issues/39954053-free-busy-support

[silverhook]

@tcitworld, just threw some coin into the BountySource kitty, to get the ball rolling.

Here’s a live preview of how much is stored there right now:

[talmage]

Thanks @tcitworld! I added to the bounty.

[raoulbhatia]

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[NoPerfect]

In the DaviCal this is issue too: https://gitlab.com/davical-project/davical/issues/69
But "Free/Busy" status available directly (example link): http://calendar.davical.local/freebusy.php/username/home

I cant see free or busy my friends for evil plans!

[ChristophWurst]

Add / Remove attendees from within Free/Busy view

Wait. We don't have this. We actually have none of the items. They were checked prematurely.

Those controls/edits are possible in the event UI, but not in the free/busy UI.

[xeruf]

Also it is quite cumbersome having to enter them for each day, I would like to be able to define them once and then select a date range, maybe add a power-input that uses osm date range syntax?

[compgeniuses]

I had thought the NExtcloud Hub 6 would implement these features as they are related to meetings.

[nimishavijay]

@hamza221 Some mockups which might be helpful :)

Differences from current free/busy view:

• Use components for all the elements (eg, date picker, today/previous day/next day buttons)
• Add a heading "Find a time"
• Add the time and time zone below the date in the top left corner
• Nice-to-haves:
  • The "guide" for the color (currently below the free/busy section) can be shifted into a small help section on the top right, which on hover opens a tooltip showing the guide
  • change the colors:
    • busy: --color-error in 0.3 opacity
    • out of office/unavailable: --color-background-darker
    • busy tentatively: --color-warning in 0.3 opacity
    • unknown: --color-info in 0.3 opacity

New features:

• Allow selecting different times in the modal itself: the selected time is indicated by the border (2px solid --color-primary-element with --border-radius)
• Selected time is also reflected in the top left date and time
• Show detailed attendees: Attendee names are shown as well as avatar and role, similar to how it's shown in the attendee list in the sidebar
• Add and remove attendees: Add attendees via a select component, similar to the attendee list in the sidebar,
• newly added attendees are shown at the bottom
• Remove attendees using a close button
• A done button to save changes

ccing @nextcloud/designers for feedback :)

[jancborchardt]

Very cool @nimishavijay, looks great! :) Only 3 things come to mind:

• Scroll point: Currently when opening the free/busy modal, it always starts at midnight. Instead, it should scroll so the current time slot is in the middle. If it’s a full-day event, it could start at e.g. 8/9/10 AM, something of the sort. (If the person has out of office set, at their start of day for example)
• Color contrast: We need to make sure that the out of office, busy etc. blocks have proper contrast and/or are understandable without color. E.g. for out of office we could use grey with diagonal hatch pattern lines, and for busy we could use the red with diagonal criss-cross lines.
• Width: Since this element will most likely always scroll horizontally, it would be good to give it more space to the sides. Currently it is a box inside the modal, but it could also extend to the left and right edge (the text on the left should still be aligned with the other text of course). This is mostly a detail though, and least important of the points. :)

[hamza221]

Currently the date indicated in the top left corner is the date shown on the fullcalendar component, not the actual event date. so it's a bit unclear what time to show
@nimishavijay

[nimishavijay]

As discussed we will try to keep the interactivity inside the fullcalendar component to a minimum because of technical limitations. Updated mockups:

[compgeniuses]

Wow, thats going to be a evry nifty feature, Now i cant wait for Hub 8 to be release