Duplicate event

[renne]

Steps to reproduce

1. Click on a calender event
2. No "Store as new event" button

Expected behaviour

In the event view/frame a button "Store new event" shall be shown besides/below the "Update" button which stores the edited event as a new one without changing the original one.

Actual behaviour

Not available

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[georgehrke]

Please explain a use-case

[renne]

1. User creates a complex event (title, date, time, location, description, multiple reminders, ...)
2. User needs same event with only a few changes (e.g. date and location)
3. User clicks on existing event
4. User edits the fields to be changed
5. User clicks "Duplicate/Save as new" button and event is stored with a new UID

The main reason for this use-case is to avoid re-doing the SAME complex settings in similar events which is also error-prone (typos, missing/mixing up locations, description, reminders, ...).

[georgehrke]

I'd rather extend #17 to copy other attributes as well

[georgehrke]

Do you agree?

[renne]

You mean a new event with copying attributes when typing a matching title? This would reference to #8 and avoids searching for the existing event.

I think that's a very interesting idea. Keep in mind not to reset the copied values when the title is changed! ;)

[scroom]

For our use case it would be good as well being able to duplicate an event or to copy it to another calendar.
We've got a lot of calendars in use in our school in which some are publicized on the website, other are just intern, others are just shared with a certain group ....
It is really often necessary to have one event in several calendars so that all the people who have to know about the event, learn about it. It would save us hours if there would be such a functionality.

[Bugsbane]

I came here also looking for the ability to copy events, although my expectation for how it would be done was a bit different. I expected to be able to right click / long tap on an event and choose copy/paste, or if on a keyboard, to be able to drag an event to a new day while holding Ctrl / Alt / Option like in Dolphin on Linux / the File Explorers on Windows / Mac.

My use case is that I have a few work scheduled events that have the same title and time of day, but are on fairly random days. I'd really like to be able to take the one event I've already created for one of these and quickly duplicate it to other days (preferably without having to actually open the event).

If I could just hold down Ctrl or long tap on mobile and then drag these events to other days and have them duplicate to there, this would be ideal and much faster than if #17 were extended, as it removes the need to open up the event creation dialogue, edit values and save again for every single duplicate..

[mrsynock]

holding ctrl while dragging to duplicate would be very good

[georgehrke]

@mrsynock how is that supposed to work on mobile? ;)

[Bugsbane]

@georgehrke

right click / long tap on an event and choose copy/paste

[georgehrke]

long tap on an event

Long tab on an event should be used to drag events to another time slot.

Let's do this with #17 instead. That will cover all use cases.

[dseomn]

Let's do this with #17 instead. That will cover all use cases.

How does #17 cover copying a non-repeating event from one calendar to another? (I think my use case is similar to what @scroom mentioned.)

[JohnArcher]

I am in the same boat as @scroom and @dseomn ... That is the main thing that keeps me from using nextCloud calender instead of Google Calender. Copying/Cloning events to other calenders is very well done there.

[tikoflano]

Why was this feature request closed? I'm still needing this.

[JohnArcher]

@tikoflano I think this happend more or less accidentally when @georgehrke referenced #17 but this seems to be misleading, as we can't see what this issue has to do with cloning events.
So I hope someone in the team can reopen it and give a statement where we are with this crucial feature.

[rkaraba]

Event cloning would by a very usefull future.
Sometimes is usefull to have the same event in different calendars shared with different people

[vince-from-nice]

I also need to duplicate or copy/paste events (in the same calendar).
Without that feature I am forced to stay under Google Calendar.
But if the issue remained closed there's no chance to see any evolution. Maybe we should open another issue ?

[georgehrke]

We discussed this at Nextcloud conf and came to the conclusion that #17 has a bad discoverability.

We will include a Duplicate button in the new dropdown menu:

[bovender]

I often have to create multiple very similar events within one calendar, and it is cumbersome when using the Nextcloud web app having to re-enter all the details when only few details change.

Is copying and editing the duplicated event really such an esoteric use case?

In fact, when I have to create multiple events, I often pick up my CalDAV-enabled smart phone which offers that feature -- or my laptop (running KDE neon) whose calendar application offers the functionality too. But there are many times when all I have is a web browser on some PC at work, and then I find myself wishing for this functionality in Nextcloud proper as well.

[x12a1f]

I have another use case for this feature.

I would like to use the calendar to schedule the day for my children. Events and/or tasks wil be something like

• 7:45 - wake-up, get dressed
• 8:00 - breakfast
• 8:15 - gather school supplies
• 8:20 - gaming until school bus arrives
• 8:30 - go to school
• etc...

Most days are the same, however there are to many day-to-day changes to use the repeating event feature. It would be nice if I can just shift+drag an event and/or task in the calendar from a previous day to duplicate it to a new day.

There are apps which can do this, but they require a monthly fee. Mostly they are for children with autism and although they offer more features, from what I have seen from it, they are just a simple shared calendar with some magic around it to make creating schedules easier. I figured I can do this with nextcloud also, but having a easy way to duplicate events would be really helpful.

[fhaut]

This feature request are important and usefull
another missing simple feature is a field URL that opens the link on new tab.

only these two requests to leave google calendar in the organization...

[ant0nwax]

As I work for 6 months inside a company that creates another open source software solution, I am mostly aware, that the developers would really like to solve this.

There must be more relevant issues to more people. That's why this thread has not enough focus.

Everyone that writes here and IS able to develop (sorry, i am not) could help to get this feature forward as nextcloud calendar plugin is open source, too.

[szaimen]

Hello everyone 👋

Today is your lucky day because I took the time and implemented this feature based on the work of @rogelio-o which implemented most of it in #2621.

See #4300 for my PR.

If you have docker locally installed, you can test this with:

docker run -it \
-e CALENDAR_BRANCH=enh/113/duplicate-event \
-p 127.0.0.1:8443:443 \
--name nextcloud-easy-test \
ghcr.io/szaimen/nextcloud-easy-test:latest

[SilverPuppy]

@szaimen MY HERO! I can't test easily this just this moment as my setup is not Docker based, but can hardly wait for it to appear through an update of the Calendar app. When might this happen? I realize this depends on people other than yourself, of course; it's just a question about the general development cycle, I suppose.

[eule68]

Hip-hip hooray.

Many thanks and a big beer.....

[vince-from-nice]

Fantastic news, many thanks to @rogelio-o and @szaimen (and others who do the merge).

[SilverPuppy]

My looking at things indicates that the next release of this app should include this. If so, YAY! If not, tell me where my understanding took a wrong turn. :)

[ant0nwax]

I just updated to 3.4.0 and its not in the changelog and not in the three dot menu, please could you maybe define 'next release of this app' with a version number, thanks

[st3iny]

It will most likely be included in v3.5.0.

[eule68]

I was expecting 3.5.0 to be the next version and to be released shortly, but in the meantime there are two intermediate versions.
Why isn't this important patch not included in these releases ????

[SilverPuppy]

My machine updated itself to 3.5, and I can confirm this feature finally works as expected. Huge thanks to all the people who finally made this work!

[SilverPuppy]

im dont understant too, switching back to google calendar.. by by nextcloud.

3.5 is released, and this feature works as expected.

[krauthosting]

Thanks 🥳 Just confirmed via Snap auto update works:

Didn't work in quick testing for ended recurring events.

[fb95]

Is it possible to have the same duplicate menu entry for imported agenda (by URL) ?

[alexanderdd]

@krauthosting and @fb95 please open new issues.

@fb95 as a workaround, you can always export a whole calendar to .ics and then import that calendar into any calender on your Nextcloud instance. If you need more support, please use help.nextcloud.com