First Event Format HTML List

  • Resolved cogdog

    (@cogdog)


    1 month, 1 week ago

    I just managed to get set up, eager to use this for the Open Education Week site that uses The Events Calendar Pro with the Community Events add on. My first event published never showed up but one I just approved did show up (only on one instance, my other account does not see it, are there caching delays in federating).

    The site is federating as @sharing@oeweek.oeglobal.org and event that I see in one instance is https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/activity/getting-started-with-open-pedagogy/

    I was pleased to see it, but the format with HTML lists was not the format I expected:

    I have changed the settings to try to use the template tags. Note that the field names displayed in the setting have incorrect labels (the first two tags).

    Is it possible to republish or do I need to get a new event to test?

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Thread Starter cogdog

    (@cogdog)

    Well, I changed the template tags, but they are still showing up in Mastodon with HTML paragraph tags, it looks not so professional (look for this one https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/activity/being-a-teacher-is-difficult-open-educational-resources-can-help-us/)

    Also, I can see these on the instance where I have my personal account cosocial.ca but none show up on the instance where our organization has an account social.fossdle.org (the profile shows up but no federated events are listed).

    Plugin Author André Menrath

    (@andremenrath)

    Hello!

    Thanks a lot for your detailed report.

    HTML in summary: Fediverse application should parse the summary as HTML, Mastodon does it since version 4.3.0. That means if your instance received the last update of an Event before being upgraded to version 4.3.0+ still the HTML markup will be shown. Many other Fediverse application sadly still handle this the wrong way. What I could offer in meanwhile is adding a config option to send the summary as plain text, until other more other Mastodon servers are updates and other applications have fixed this. What do you think?

    Events not showing up on Mastodon: Which version of the ActivityPub plugin do you use? Because almost all federation logic is handled by that plugin and the most recent release 5.0.0 a few days ago has some severe issues which I reported – I am currently working together with its developers on solving these as fast as possible. I will notify you here once this should be resolved.

    Note that I afterwards will release the 1.0.0 version of the “Event Bridge for ActivityPub”. As there are plenty of improvements done since 0.3.5 I would kindly to ask you to be patient and investigate again if any issues should still persist then!

    Kind regards,

    André

    Thread Starter cogdog

    (@cogdog)

    Thank you so much André for a detailed reply.

    Absolutely, a plain text format option will work for me.

    For my server, I am working through some issues with my server admin, who is a bit overzealous on security. I believe he has some server config limit on access to the .well_known directory.

    I am not an expert in web servers, but I appreciate my own hosted sites that don’t try to lock things down like it is a state secret.

    Also I so appreciate being able to ask and hear directly quickly from a developer, as does Matthias for AcivityPub as opposed to say the Event Calendar Pro people that trap you in Zendesk limbo, not ever talking to developers but customer service people with answer scripts.

    Thread Starter cogdog

    (@cogdog)

    It is working at least on my instance! (somewhat, still dealing with server issues and an over protective sys admin who has no clue what webfinger is)

    Still HTML for so call we are syndicating events as they are added to the calendar, this is federated view of the event.

    Plugin Author André Menrath

    (@andremenrath)

    Should be resolved with version 1.0.0.

    Thread Starter cogdog

    (@cogdog)

    Updating both plugins now!, Thanks

    Thread Starter cogdog

    (@cogdog)

    I very much like the integration of Activity Bridge settings to a tab for the ActivityPub plugin. For the post formatting, is there any way to generate a preview of how entry will appear?

    Plugin Author André Menrath

    (@andremenrath)

    If you use the Gutenberg block editor select -> Preview -> ActivityPub Preview. If you use the classic editor under the event posts list if you hover over an event you see an “ActivityPub preview” link. Just save the Event as draft before in that case.

    Thread Starter cogdog

    (@cogdog)

    Thanks André I totally missed the obvious. The Events Calendar uses the classic editor, but the previews are fabulous, especially to see the appearance in Mobilizon and Mastodon. All of our events are community submitted so come in as pending.

    I’m really happy with how this one showed up in Mastodon https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/activity/poco-a-poco/

    If anyone can help me learn how to link from a web site to open a WP federated post in Mastodon… I’d buy them a drink.

    Plugin Author André Menrath

    (@andremenrath)

    If anyone can help me learn how to link from a web site to open a WP federated post in Mastodon… I’d buy them a drink.

    You will not be able to do that, thats up to the each individual, as you do not know each persons Mastodon instance, and moreover one could have several. However, browser plugins could do such things, to show a “open this site in Mastodon” if the current page has an ActivityStreams representation. But I do not know if such a things exists.

    FYI: I followed your events for demonstration purposes: https://gancio-test.event-federation.eu/

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