361213 - make it possible to create templates [extension fodder]

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Calendar :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Markus Adrario [:Taraman]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Lightning 0.4a1 (build 1006111906) in Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (20061025)

It would be great, if you could create templates for events, that don't reoccur regularly, so you can add them easily.
I would suggest to add an item to the right-click menu to add an event from a tmplate or to define an existing event as a template.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 2

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

With the new event dialog, maybe even a sidebar similar to the contacts sidebar on the message compose window would be a good idea. CCing Christian for a UI proposal.

Comment 3

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

If anyone else feels like whipping up UI for this, feel free to attach screenshots.

Comment 4

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

Attachment: Template UI proposal - v1

In case someone is interested, I would imagine something like this.

Comment 5

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

I think this should be done in an extension.

Comment 7

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

From bug 274455:

It would also be nice to automatically load templates based on the selected category, i.e "Birthday" and "Anniversary" should automatically make the event allday and recur yearly.

Comment 10

[Starko]

Excellent idea. I believe most people have a limited number (smaller than 10) of event types they frequently create. 

I'd add that it should be possible to specify in which calendar events based on a template will be created.

Double clicking on the calendar should create an event based on the default template. Right-mouse clicking on the calendar should produce a context menu with selection of templates among other things.