It is on the future roadmap, but we do not plan to integrate this in the short term.
The reason for this is, that this feature would be very badly supported by calendars. I am not fully sure about Apple, but in all other cases you are really lucky if it works. Therefore, this would be no reliable feature – only a try-but-not-rely-on-it one.
Also, calendar operators are blocking this usually, because it is considered as highly intrusive and to most users feels annoying – especially keeping in mind that you usually set a default reminder in your calendar, which you do not want to get overridden.
Bottom line:
- will come, but long-term.
- Not recommended at all to use. Very rare use cases, where it could make sense and almost never supported.
Hi
Okay I understand about alerts.
I have some other questions
1. The Javascript file contains all css, displayed text etc leading to very large js file over 50kb. I have disabled it from running on all pages and only use it where it’s needed. You shall somehow enqueue it only where the shrotcode exists.
2. Message not available to iPhone chrome, use safari. This message is displayed for both apple and outlook calendar which is not a good approach, if users can’t add to calendar with Apple or outlook, then these options shouldn’t be visible at all and could be confusing saying use safari because chrome can’t download from url etc.
Everything else is awesome. Good job
#1: Yes. However, it is a little bit tricky, since you can use the button in multiple ways (not only shortcode, but also directly as element). Would require a settings page, so it is up to the user. This way, we can get it optimized. Put it on the roadmap. Thanks for the input!
#2: I would argue against this. In case you are using an iPhone with Chrome, Safari is also available to you. So, hiding options, just because they are not working on Chrome, could easily lead to the button being of no use at all. Imagine a case, where the admin defines the apple option only. In this case, following your proposal, we would need to hide the button completely on Chrome. At the moment, we are telling the user that he can simply switch to Safari and paste the content of his clipboard (where we automatically already stored everything). This way, the process is still operational.
Of course, this is not ideal. We are working on a hosted version, where at least the ics download functionality receives better browser support. But this will take some more months and event with this, there are many fallback situations left, where Big Tech is not playing nicely.
Anyway, for the current concept/product, it makes more sense to inform the user about his options instead of showing nothing.
Yes i have seen that it’s difficult to download directly from js and browser. I had seen that there is a way of creating the file put it on folder and get user the url to download automatically.
So a way of doing it is creating the file putting it inside the plugin folder so the user downloads it and then delete it or something. Anyway, you know better. Thanks
Exactly, there is a backend/server part necessary. The current script runs 100% on client side. As mentioned, there is a big thing in the pipeline to support this way in the near future.
