Changing the name/colour of calendars

[Gary92]

Hi, I've been doing some testing with CalDAV and CardDAV for a few days now, both on Windows and Android.

On Windows I've found an email client that allows to change/sync the name and color of calendars with the server. On Android, some calendar apps allow to change/sync only the color, while none of them seem to support changing the name as well.

Since I'm not an expert, I wanted to ask if such a feature (changing the name/color of calendars directly from DAVx5) is planned/possible for future releases.

[ArnyminerZ]

I agree that it can be useful, and shouldn't be too hard to implement, since we already have almost all the infrastructure required including the UI, since when creating a new collection (that's how they are technically called) you have to choose one name and color of course.

Let's see what @rfc2822 thinks about this, and elevate it to an issue if we are going to do it 😉

[rfc2822]

It's an open idea, but at the moment there are other things. So it may come at some time in the future, but not in the very next time.

[cobordism]

I second this proposal.

I am subscribed to multiple calendars that are all called "Calendar". Nowhere along the pipeline "server <--> davx5 <--> calendar app" can I change the name/title. It would be great if davx5 allowed me to change the "Title" field for subscribed caldav calendars.

[Gary92]

@cobordism as a temporary "fix", I am currently hosting the calendars on a Nextcloud instance and I am using the web app to manage them. However, in case you are only interested in changing the displayed name (not the actual, server-side name) of calendars, some calendar applications have such a feature.

[rfc2822]

Well it would clearly be possible and useful and we have thought about this a long time. However it would require adding a new dialog that allows to change all collection properties, no? Because if you can change the name, why not the color, and if the color, why not the allowed component types, timezone etc.

Maybe the "create collection" view can be reused somehow?

I'll create an issue for somewhen, but I think it won't happen in near future. I'd however be happy about UI suggestions how this could be done.

[Gary92]

@rfc2822 I think that changing the name, colour and description would be enough, maybe even the default timezone. As suggested by @ArnyminerZ, it could be possible to use the same UI already in place for creating a new collection (the "create" button would be replaced by an "update/save" button). I would leave both path and content types "fixed" instead (their UI elements would be disabled), I can't think of a correct way to handle pre-existing items if the corresponding type is deactivated.

[ArnyminerZ]

Follow-up: #1002