[REQ] How to make a subscription link permanent?

🍱 Features & apps 📆 Calendar
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Hi all,

I accidentally clicked the “unshare” on a calendar and when I “shared” it again the subscription link/calendar_share_id has changed! (
https://[nextcloud]/remote.php/dav/public-calendars/[calendar_share_id]?export)

This is very bad since I can’t reach/log those who have subscribed and they most probably don’t know that (just) the link has changed when they don’t get any updates.

QUESTION:

  1. Is there a way to have an e.g. name or the like as fixed calendar_share_id?
  2. How can I prevent changing the calendar_share_id?
  3. If there is no way for 1) or 2) : Where exactly is this link internally stored?
  4. Can I reset that value manually?

That said I also want to mention that the community here is quite helpful and quick! Thanks a bunch!

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Meanwhile I figured out where the [calendar_share_id] is stored. I now can store that value somewhere else and check regulary for changes. But that is just a workaround for keeping that link permant and I understood that tinkering w/ the Source -DB is not recommended.

So, are there any other ways of keeping that link/value permanent across unsharing/share again?

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Did you ever find a solution to this?

4

No.
Tbh, I gave up on it since it doesn’t seem to have any priority for NC (but for plenty of subscribers… :o( )

It’s a pity that you very easily can “un-share” a calendar (w/o warning) and then all your subscribers get lost.

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I think that this is by design… If you want to remove some persons with an old link from a calendar share this wouldn’t be possible if it was the other way round.

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Well, ala I don’t know WHO has subscribed (since it’s a public link and only IP-addresses are logged) how should I remove a single subscriber? There is no account, no nothing!
And even if there is a way (like a fixed IP), the question should be “What will be used more often? Keeping a permanent subscriber link for all of your subscribers or to remove one or more persons?”.

The answer for me is clearly the first choice!

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Which will totally be true unless you unshare a link…

Edit: I didn’t find a feature request on Github for adding a warning before unsharing a public link. So you could of course go there and create a new issue for that :slight_smile: