[Future] Rules

[derekantrican]

This is a future feature that probably won't be implemented for a while. We have bigger things to focus on before then

Filter Rules: only process events that match certain criteria

Examples (some of these may be multiple rules):

• "Do not process any event where the title contains 'test'"
• "Do not process any events on Fridays"
• "Do not process any events occurring past 11/1/19"

Modification rules: modify event properties before processing the event

Examples (some of these may be multiple rules):

• "Remove 'FW:' from any event titles" (as requested in Update Code.gs #68)
• "Replace Title with {DESCRIPTION} and Description with {TITLE}" (would be a better approach than our current "flag" setting)
• "Modify all event start times to happen at 23:00 and end times to happen at 23:59" (as requested in Make all events have certain time #66)

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Rules should be able to access the following properties: Title, Location, Description, Start, End, Duration

They should also have the following variables available:

• {TITLE} (the original event title/summary)
• {DESCRIPTION} (the original event description)
• {LOCATION} (the original event location}
• possibly more added on request

[derekantrican]

Some people may also desire in the future the ability to automatically modify the colors of the events. This could also be done via rules. For instance:

• "All event colors should be red" (meaning all synced/ICS events - not all Google calendar events)
• "All events where the title contains 'Doctor's appointment' should be blue"

[jstride]

The modification use cases could potentially be split into two features, rules and regexs.

The first modifications (Remove FW:, and others such as replace X with Y, or remove that annoying 'Invitation/Updated' Google adds to events sent to other calendars) could be solved by having a config option as a regex to run for title and description, as a thought.

[derekantrican]

Yeah, these will probably support regex (or at least have an option to make the modification rule "regex" or "non regex")