Getting events in a group's widgets to open in the group's calendar URL

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When someone clicks on an event in a group-specific widget, we’d like the event detail page to open within the group’s calendar URL and not the main CMU Events calendar URL.

For example, our math department calendar URL is events.cmu.edu/math. When you are on that page and navigate to Sept. 23 and click the CNA Seminar event, it opens within the /math URL:
CNA seminar: Brian Seguin (Loyola University) / Mathematical Sciences Department – CMU Events Calendar.

But if you are on the math department website page Seminars - Center for Nonlinear Analysis - Department of Mathematical Sciences, MCS - Carnegie Mellon University and click on the same Sept. 23 event in the list widget it opens in the main calendar URL without /math in it:
CNA seminar: Brian Seguin (Loyola University) / CMU Events Calendar

We’d prefer to keep folks within the group calendar so they can browse other departmental events if they so choose. I assume this is possible but wasn’t sure if it was a widget setting or something that has to be configured in the code on the back end - we’d like this to be the default setting for all groups.

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Hi Jen,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention – I see what you mean. As I understand it, event links for groups that have a Calendar URL set should work the way you’re describing, but I see it’s not (and linking to the main calendar instead). We’ll check this out. Thanks!

Karl

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HI Karl, Just checking in to see if you’ve had a chance to check into this and figure out why it is happening. thanks!

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Aha, found it!

This was fixed in LiveWhale 2.20.1 – see release notes:

Fixed an issue that could prevent the group calendar url from appearing in the canonical URL for individual events.

This means that the next time you upgrade your LiveWhale Calendar, those URLs should correct themselves. A good reminder to me that, anytime an unexpected behavior is present, reproducing it on your dev server (which should always be running the current stable LWC release) is a good way of seeing if it might be a bug that’s already been fixed. Thanks Jen,

Karl

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Oh glad to hear that issue will be resolved when we push the upgrade - Thanks Karl!