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13 changes: 12 additions & 1 deletion site/themes/s2b_hugo_theme/assets/js/cal/helpers.js
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// Remove colons and periods for Google Calendar URL (2025-05-21T16:30:00.000Z => 20250521T163000000Z)
const calendarDates = `${startDate.replace(regex, '')}/${endDate.replace(regex, '')}`;

const descr = $.fn.truncateString(event.details, 500) + `\n\n${event.shareable}`;

googleCalUrl.search = new URLSearchParams({
action: "TEMPLATE",
text: `shift2Bikes: ${event.title}`,
location: event.address,
details: `${event.details}\n\n${event.shareable}`,
details: descr,
dates: calendarDates,
sf: true, // ??
output: 'xml'
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return googleCalUrl.toString();
};

$.fn.truncateString = function ( str, maxLength=250 ) {
let text = str.substring(0,maxLength);
if (str.length > maxLength) {
// replace the last character with an ellipsis
text = text.slice(0, -1) + "…";
}
return text;
};

$.fn.compareTimes = function ( event1, event2 ) {
if ( event1.time < event2.time ) {
return -1;
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6 changes: 1 addition & 5 deletions site/themes/s2b_hugo_theme/assets/js/cal/main.js
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Expand Up @@ -73,11 +73,7 @@ $(document).ready(function() {
if (event.printdescr) {
$('meta[property="og:description"]')[0].setAttribute("content", event.printdescr);
} else {
var descr = event.details.substring(0,250);
if (event.details.length > 250) {
// replace the last character with an ellipsis
descr = descr.slice(0, -1) + "…";
}
let descr = container.truncateString(event.details, 250);
$('meta[property="og:description"]')[0].setAttribute("content", descr);
}
document.title = event.title + " - Calendar - " + SITE_TITLE;
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