New Feature Addition · Calendars · Created by
Ironskink
closed
calendar 3rd-party-integration
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
WorldAnvil has a lot of great features, but at the current time the calendar features are somewhat limited and do not appear to be actively worked on at this moment. Fantasy Calendar is an online service dedicated to being the most feature-rich calendar solution available, and their tools allowed me to create the calendars I wish I'd had since the beginning of the campaign I'm running. I have been in communication with the good folks at Fantasy Calendar, and they are far enough along in their updates to an API-driven interface that they feel they would be ready to talk to other groups like World Anvil to discuss what a 3rd-Party integration would entail.
USER STORY
GIVEN: I subscribe to World Anvil (WA) at a level that has calendar access,
AND: I have one or more calendars set up on Fantasy Calendar (FC) to take advantage of their more advanced calendar features;
THEN: I would like to integrate my FC calendars with my WA account, allowing native calendar embedding in articles, use of my FC calendar(s) as a source of dates for events, and the ability to push events from one system to the other.
How does this feature request address the current situation?
By working with FC to create a 3rd party integration with WA, WA would get the benefit of being able to offer an enhanced calendar option with many additional features that is backed by its own dedicated developers with a fraction of the development time that it would take to add those features to the existing calendar offering. Users like myself who have weird calendar requirements will be able to use the service to manage our unique calendar situations, and the integration will make it easy to use WA's powerful writing tools in combination with an advanced calendar.
Fantasy Calendar also started as a two-person team, and you can contact @Axel and @Wasp by email at
[email protected] or via Discord at https://discord.com/invite/7KCU27Nt.
What are other uses for this feature request?
The option to work with a dedicated calendar provider for the calendar feature of WA will allow for some extremely powerful worldbuilding synergies!
The Team's Response
This suggestion did not reach the required level of support during its voting period.
I find the idea absolutely great and I would love to do so, but:
This will need some more votes
Fantasy Calendar has no public API to communicate with it or an embed.
I have tried to contact the developers in the past and got no answer from them
Current score
102/300 Votes · +16780 points