Community Suggestion: Option to Auto-populate calendars with birthdays
Option to Auto-populate calendars with birthdays
Content Addition · World management · Created by irpguardian
closed
calendar
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
Currently, when creating a character there's a location to add a birthday, but you functionally have to add it twice. Once in the character sheet, and another time in the calendar itself. The year functionality works fine for age, but the date portion needs its functionality expanded to show on calendars (if enabled), even if meaning to use a ISO-styled date format for non-gregorian calendars. (ie, 1496/08/02 for the Harptos calendar, Elasias 2, 1496How does this feature request address the current situation?
With the automatic populating of a calendar with character birthdays, it would significantly speed up the creation of new characters when attempting to design lore around when characters are born and what possible holidays/moon cycles/etc happen near their birthdays. It would also drastically reduce the amount of clicks required to manually add a birthday manually in the calendar by at least 6-10, depending on how many extra fields one needs to change for icons/recurrence/etc.What are other uses for this feature request?
Much like the most useful '@' linking ability of most articles, this would add more connections to the calendar, which I think is a really useful but under-used portion of the tools worldanvil provides. Plus, as a Game Master, any feature that reduces the "drag" of creation is greatly appreciated when one gets in the zone and you have several new characters ready to write up.The Team's Response
Thanks for the suggestion! This is unfortunately not possible at this moment, because the various time-related features don't "talk" to each other. We are planning to unify them in the planned Time Update, and we'll be happy to revisit this when it happens. But that update is still quite far off into the future, so this is closed for now.
Current score
30/300 Votes · +7102 points
Votes Cast
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+100
by Fearandramen
on 2025-08-14 18:41 -
+300
by shadowclasper
on 2025-08-14 08:48 -
+300
by JetpackMonkey
on 2025-08-14 04:10 -
+300
by Suirei
on 2025-08-05 09:17 -
+100
by Mme88
on 2025-08-04 04:51 -
+300
by Zeld4
on 2025-07-31 14:41 -
+100
by restlessGalaxy
on 2025-07-31 05:56 -
+100
by yatenari
on 2025-07-30 17:38 -
+1
by Michael Chandra
on 2025-07-30 15:10 -
+1
by EverDawn
on 2025-07-30 14:27 -
+300
by arlathavellan
on 2025-07-30 02:52I don't know if the way they handle calendars will make this feasible but I would hate for lack of interest to be what gets this denied
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+300
by laydeth
on 2025-07-30 00:57 -
+300
by Xizor14
on 2025-07-29 16:20 -
+300
by Alradas
on 2025-07-29 12:50 -
+300
by Writing Bishop
on 2025-07-29 06:36 -
+300
by Elias_Zephyr
on 2025-07-29 02:08 -
+300
by corviq
on 2025-07-28 23:59 -
+100
by spooktacular
on 2025-07-28 11:22 -
+300
by Golden_Empir3
on 2025-07-28 01:52This would be such a time saver, especially if you create a lot of npc's
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+300
by Lonnie makes mayhem
on 2025-07-27 22:24 -
+100
by AuraGuard
on 2025-07-26 17:54 -
+300
by kaixabu
on 2025-07-25 14:38 -
+300
by TheRealCheese08
on 2025-07-25 04:00 -
+300
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+100
by ohheyrene
on 2025-07-24 23:00 -
+300
by BCGR_Wurth
on 2025-07-23 21:51 -
+300
by Willow H.R. Harper
on 2025-07-23 20:30 -
+300
by Ratha
on 2025-07-23 10:01 -
+100
by JoellaKay
on 2025-07-23 06:22 -
+300
by Daedalus_Arts
on 2025-07-23 03:07 -
+300
by irpguardian
on 2025-07-23 00:31
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