Dashboard Calendar Widget Issue - It goes to a page that never loads

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Hi All,

I have the latest stable NextCloud and I have this issue for the last 3 versions.

If I go directly to the calendar, I have no problems. However, if I click on the Calendar Widget on dashboard–regardless of clicking on adding a new event (when no event on calendar) or clicking on an upcoming event–it takes me to a page that never loads and after many minutes browser asks if I want to terminate the request because it does not load.

I tried it with different browsers, mode security off and on. Also I installed a fresh new NextCloud. The issue is the same.

Then I went and updated an exising old installation without this issue. Same issue starts there as well.

Today I was hoping that the new version will fix this issue like the issue we had with PDF files, but it did not get fixed, so I came to write this here.

Any ideas?

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Any ideas?

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I am also getting this error on Chrome and Edge, Firefox seems to work ok, so it must be a redirect or popup problem with the browsers, can you try this and confirm?

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You are right. It works on Firefox but not on Chrome, which is the most popular browser. I even tried in Incognito mode of Chrome and result is a fail.

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Thank you for getting back to me Canadamcpherson, I am hoping and admin is watching this, can someone else test this also for us?

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Have you tried adjusting security settings in browsers? I allowed redirects but to no avail :frowning: Looked for errors in developer mode and not showing anything unusual.

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It just seems that the developer is using Firefox and never tried it in Chrome.

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Thanks Canadamchperson,
Have you managed to solve the problem in your chrome/edge browser? Is it only us that is getting this issue?
I am using Edge Version 92.0.902.84 (Official build) (64-bit)
Chrome Version 93.0.4577.63 (Official Build) (64-bit)

The problem starts when this is redirected - https:/yoururl.com/index.php/apps/calendar/dayGridMonth/now/edit/popover/L3JlbW90ZS5waHAvZGF2L2NhbGVuZGFycy9zdXBlcmFkbWluL3BlcnNvbmFsLzk4REVFQTdFLUMxQTMtNEJDQS05MjhGLUU1RjQzNjZCMjgyNi5pY3M=/1630454400

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For sure others have the same issue. I even tried new installation of NextCloud on a different OS. Result is the same. The funny thing is that I don’t have the same problem on Mobile Chrome.

We need to open a ticket on GitHub, but I don’t know if we need to open an issue for the Calendar App or the Dashboard App. That is why I opened the ticket here.

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Do you have a github account, if not i`ll open one for us :+1:t3:

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I have one, but have you figured out which one to open a ticket on? Dashboard or Calendar app?

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I would say calendar as the dashboard works for everything else.

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Alright. This is not the absolute solution, because there is a java loop bug in the calendar app. However, the following workaround solves the issue for each user separately.

Calendar App > From bottom right choose “Settings and Import” > uncheck “Enable Simplified Editor”

Source: https://github.com/nextcloud/calendar/issues/2960#issuecomment-805847876

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Thank you so much for you help, this has worked, have you contacted the app developers regarding this?

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The developers know about the issue here Canadamcpherson
Upcoming events widget + "create a new event" page does not respond · Issue #2960 · nextcloud/calendar · GitHub but not resolved atm

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Since disabling the calendar simplified editor would be an effective workaround to avoid this bug, do you guys by chance know how I could occ apply this setting recursively for all the users of our installation?

I have found some hints on this github issue (sorry for the crosspost but we need to fix this problem as soon as possible!) but I was not able to achieve to batch change that setting for all our users, who lately are complaining a lot about this but.

Any idea? Thank you!