Opt out of birthday calendar

[georgehrke]

fixes #3003

This introduces:

• the ability for an admin to disable birthday calendars for an entire instance
• the ability for each user individually to disable their birthday calendar

[nickvergessen]

Use the same route and POST+DELETE?

[tcitworld]

If using the same route, it would make more sense to send the enable/disable part in the payload and send everything over POST.

[georgehrke]

Hm, what's the benefit of using POST+DELETE instead of the two routes in this case?

[nickvergessen]

Deleting something with a POST request just doesn't feel right to me, anyway not very important

[MorrisJobke]

@georgehrke Where can I find the setting for a user? I haven't spotted it yet.

@rullzer @blizzz Please review.

[georgehrke]

@georgehrke Where can I find the setting for a user? I haven't spotted it yet.

There is no real setting for that (in the server).

When a user deletes their birthday calendar, nextcloud will remember not to generate birthday calendars for that user again.

To enable birthday calendar generation again, the user will have to send a special request to their calendar home: <nc:enable-birthday-calendar xmlns:nc="http://nextcloud.com/ns"/>

We will add a button for that in the calendar app.

[rullzer]

We will add a button for that in the calendar app.

👍

[rullzer]

Lets do this!

[aleprovencio]

@georgehrke
still don't know for sure how issue the command you suggested, is it appended to the calendar url as in https://my.cloud.com/index.php/apps/calendar/<nc:enable-birthday-calendar xmlns:nc="http://nextcloud.com/ns"/> ?

[georgehrke]

No, <nc:enable-birthday-calendar xmlns:nc="http://nextcloud.com/ns"/> is the request body.
The URL is your calendar-home.

We will add a button for this in the calendar app. Users obviously won't have to send these kind of requests on their own.

[aleprovencio]

FYI, doing that kinda messed up the contact birthday calendar, then I realized it was due to sync problems. I've deleted it again on NC, deleted in all other synced devices e re-enabled again following your method. Finally it works fine, thank you. The button implementation will be very welcome.

[srwareham]

@georgehrke or @aleprovencio, might either of you be able to detail exactly how you send the <nc:enable-birthday-calendar xmlns:nc="http://nextcloud.com/ns"/> message before the button is implemented?

Thanks!

Although I'd still be curious what the answer is to the above, I've found the solution using occ from a shell:

sudo -u www-data /usr/bin/php /var/www/nextcloud/console.php occ dav:sync-birthday-calendar $USER_NAME

Where $USER_NAME is the name of the specific to re-add the birthday calendar for. I found elsewhere that this command was recommended without the username argument, but that approach seems to no longer work.

[aleprovencio]

Nice to know @srwareham. For doing the trick above you have to live edit the page's html, there are plenty of tools for that.

[kesselb]

sudo -u www-data /usr/bin/php /var/www/nextcloud/console.php occ dav:sync-birthday-calendar $USER_NAME

Where $USER_NAME is the name of the specific to re-add the birthday calendar for. I found elsewhere that this command was recommended without the username argument, but that approach seems to no longer work.

For newer nextcloud versions it might be required to run php occ maintenance:repair afterwards to register the background job for birthday calendar generation again.