Integrate with Nextcloud Calendar to create a meal planner?

[e-alfred]

Hello,

this app is quite nice, it would be awesome to make it into a full fledged meal planner by integrating it with the Nextcloud Calendar app to have a complete planner like Mealime (https://www.mealime.com/). Additionally, an Android app would complement this app very well for grocery shopping and planning on the go.

[mrzapp]

Sounds like quite a bit of work, but an exciting idea nonetheless. @e-alfred do you have experience with meal planners yourself and would be able to help out with the code?

[gruessung]

Nice idea!

[brean]

I am very interested in this and looked in the code, how about an additional calendar-button in the AppControls.vue for the current recipe that opens a popup similar to the new Event dialogue in the calendar?
The event it creates should have a link to the cookbook recipe in the description.

[mrzapp]

@brean sounds like a good place to start, but we still need someone to write the actual code and submit a pull request :)

[basxto]

Additionally, an Android app would complement this app very well for grocery shopping and planning on the go.

I guess such apps work best if they only know what’s on stock.
Is it possible for nextcloud apps to deeply integrate with each other?

Together with an household management app and mobile apps for grocery shopping, which combine both, this could grow into an alternative to https://grocy.info/

[tcitworld]

Basic public calendar write API has been added in nextcloud/server#29188

[dartcafe]

Simple question: Why not using Polls' backend?

Maybe I misunderstood this request. I thought is was to plan a date by inventing people to a dinner and get a consensus about the date.

[Eschguy]

I would love to have a Meal Planner option. Click an "Add to Meal Plan" button, pick the date/meal, and boom, Meals Calendar to share with the house.

[seyfeb]

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At least creating (but not editing) calendar entries via PHP seems to be possible now according to nextcloud/server#20154

Edit: Just noticed that tcitworld already mentioned it above. Sorry for double-posting

[MarcelRobitaille]

@seyfeb It is. I have done it before for https://github.com/nextcloud/integration_google. Maybe I can help with this part.

[seyfeb]

I think many would like this feature, looking at the hearts and thumbs-up emojis of the initial post in this issue. A new API endpoint and some frontend changes would be required and also the content of the calendar entry would need to be defined. For the API part I would suggest to get input from @christianlupus since he is/has been bringing the API to a clearer structure