Suggestion: Game Session Scheduler for Forge Polls

[apoapostolov]

Proposal: A game scheduler functionality (optionally, integrated into the polls) that allow GM to create a reminder that players can RSVP and be reminded about the session via email or web notifications (Chrome notifications) prior the session.

Who is this for: GM who want to remind their players, or convert a “when to play” poll into an event reminder

How it should work: The GM has two ways to create scheduled events:

• A form that allows to give event name, starting and ending time, location (which includes a link to GM’s table) and description.
• An option for the GM to close a “when to play” vote, converting one of its options into a scheduled event

The scheduled event sends to all players (of the whole table, or who were sent the poll) an invitation email that can be imported in their Google Calendar to get notifications on desktop or mobile. Ical support is very welcome for those who use non-Google Calendars.

[kakaroto]

It’s a valid and good suggestion, thank you for making it! Moving the topic to Tickets.
Things I found relating to this :

• You can create a personal message and add all of your group to the message. This would be a great way to have “gaming group only topics”
• Creating a pre-filled message can be done via URL, which I could use to have a “Message party” action in a game’s page to create a pre-filled message to everyone invited to the game (but the list of users in the private message would need to be edited manually if a new user joins. Would need to check API to see if it’s possible. If API can be used to create message, could override the interface and save message ID in the database to auto-update it): https://meta.discourse.org/t/compose-a-new-pre-filled-personal-message-via-url/35984
• You can create polls with calendar dates in them, and multiple choice options and have the poll automatically close on a specific date, thanks to Discourse
• Discourse has an events plugin which I should install as it can be very useful for site events as well https://meta.discourse.org/t/events-plugin/69776
• There’s a google calendar plugin as well : https://meta.discourse.org/t/embed-google-calendar-plugin/21672
• A google calendar event can be created via URL. More info on the parameters available here :
  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22757908/what-parameters-are-required-to-create-an-add-to-google-calendar-link
• Using an external service like google calendar makes sense but it risks exposing the other user’s email addresses, which may or may not be wanted.

That’s it. It’s a low priority and would probably happen some time after the launch.