Further enhance the UX for private webcal keys

[NathanK]

The UI for the feeds on the Calendar pages looks great now:

@angus

It now looks like this

However, the user experience on /my/preferences/webcal-keys is too difficult for most users.

Minor suggestion

I note that the documentation link opens in the same tab - it would be nice to have that open in target=“_blank”

Currently

This is what the user sees:

With this explainer on a separate documentation page:

@angus

Private Calendars

If the calendar is private (because the site or category is private), you need an Webcal API key to subscribe to your forum’s iCalendar feed.

1. To generate the key go to my/preferences/webcal-keys.
2. Click on Generate. Make a note of the client id and an api key generated.
3. Add the following to the end of the iCalendar URL:

&user_api_key=yourapikey&client_id=yourclientid

The user has to put this all together, and then paste it into the correct place in their calendar app.

Suggestion

That the /my/preferences/webcal-keys page does this as well:

1. Has a category dropdown selector for picking the calendar desired

   • the first/top option is the whole site

2. Presents the keys assembled into an actual link (easily copied) based upon the category selected

3. Has instructions of where to put this for the common calendar apps (Google, Outlook, etc) on the same page

   • or a link to that documentation that opens in another tab

[angus]

Thanks for the suggestions. We’ll consider this again when the bandwidth is there.