External events
under review
Daniel Roller
I want to promote external events within my Linchpin intranet in order to make my colleagues aware of events potentially of interest. External events are treated as regular events except instead of the application option the user is being presented with a referrer to the external event page (URL).
Might be useful especially for:
- summits
- trainings
- public events
- webinars
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Marc Hornschuh
Angela Gaida:
We have a problem with the mass creation of an event using the editor. We asked for a way to quickly create 20 events, for example, instead of repeatedly copying the same data into the dialogue box. The use cases are:
- External events for which we have an ICS file
- Google Sheet / XLSX with 20 events on different days (e.g. the AI basic training)
- Google Sheet / XLSX with 5 events for the next Mondays at 10 a.m. but with different content (Confluence 1 to 5)
It takes a lot of time to type these in individually by hand. If you open a lot of windows, a lot of errors will occur. Both are unpleasant.
Discussed also in HELP-7376 / Seibert Extranet Servicedesk
Angela Gaida
Marc Hornschuh: thanks a lot for these detailed use cases. I do understand the need for some kind of bulk processing and we'll have a look at it in the dev team. I just can't promise any timeline or ETA for it.
Angela Gaida
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Event import via XML, ics etc.
Michael Paulus
Our users want to have one central overview of all events in linchpin, also those that are for any reason created and managed in another platform (f.ex. from an e-learning portal). To prevent double work for event creators we want to be able to import these external events into linchpin. Best would be an automatic feed via hotfolder or something similar (dragdrop might be an option too). Of course those events would then link to the external destination.
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Ute Jordan
Das kann man aber doch auch über eine entsprechende Kategorie darstellen? So handhaben wir es jedenfalls.
Angela Gaida
Ute Jordan: True, it's possible to add these external events like any other event and mark them somehow as external.
It would be nice however, in my opinion, to be able to import such external events somehow - might even happen automated via iCal or the likes.
Angela Gaida
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Linchpin Events compatible with Outlook
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Rebecca Häußler
Hey all,
as we have a full calendar of events within our company, we were wondering if there could be an possibility to import an outlook calendar (eg. like Team Calendars) into the linchpin events, so events are automatically generated through the calendar.
This would be a great improvement as we right now have to manually create the events.
Best regards
Rebecca
Daniel Roller
Thanks for the feedback on this. I just created an internal ticket for the dev team and we'll have a look at it in the next prioritization meeting.