Prefilled starttime and endtime more a hinderance than a help. [#29258]

When creating a new event, the edit dialog prefills the starttime/endtime with the current time.

I find this more of a hinderance than a help, as I can't imagine anyone wanting to create a future event entry using the current time for the starttime/endtime.
I think it would more useful if at least the minutes setting was prefilled to 00, as I would expect the most likely scheduling of an event is on the hour.

Calvin

Comments

Comment #1

mikeryan

he/him

English

Murphysboro, IL, USA

CreditAttribution: mikeryan commented 20 August 2005 at 15:56

Amen! I would suggest defaulting the times to the times of the last entered event - I frequently enter multiple events for, say, a play that runs at 8pm on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays over a few weeks...

Comment #2

squiggle CreditAttribution: squiggle commented 8 October 2005 at 16:41

Priority:

Normal

» Minor

As a new user - and a rather impressed one now that I have got around to looking at Drupal - I'd like to add my voice to this request. A great idea. Perhaps in a few months I will have an idea how to go about writing a patch...

Jon

Comment #3

squiggle CreditAttribution: squiggle commented 8 October 2005 at 16:42

Priority:

Minor

» Normal

Oops - resetting priority. I really mustn't fiddle...

Comment #4

Michelle

she/her

English

Wisconsin, USA

CreditAttribution: Michelle commented 23 June 2007 at 20:40

Version:

4.6.x-1.x-dev

» 5.x-2.x-dev

What to set the defaults to should be added to our UI discussion. Bumping to current version.

Michelle

Comment #5

blackfox CreditAttribution: blackfox commented 7 July 2007 at 19:01

sounds like a good idea. And for enddate I suggest to set it via javascript after the user has entered the startdate. The default event-duration should then be an option to set in the settings...

For example:
settings: default event-duration = 2 hours
at event creation entering: start date = 2007-07-07 21:00:00
then set via JS: end date = 2007-07-07 23:00:00