I love this feature that adds my custom fields to my iCal events. However, my calendar events are currently plain text. They can get a little hard to read. Is it possible to add some basic formatting to the calendar events? E.G. Bolding the field names for readability?
For the iCal feed, all the display is handled by the calendar app that is reading the feed. As far as I know, there is no way to tell the calendar app how to format the content.
Are you actually asking about the website widget or JSON feed?
No, I'm talking about the iCal feed.
I think most modern Calendar apps support some HTML rendering now. The iCalendar site has this to say: https://icalendar.org/the-icalendar-standard-2.html
HTML In Event Descriptions
The original iCalendar standard allowed only plain text as part of an event description. HTML markup, such as font attributes (bold, underline) and layout (div, table) was not allowed in the text description field. First seen in Microsoft Outlook, the X-ALT-DESC parameter provides a method to add HTML to an event description. "X-" fields are allowed for non-standard, experimental parameters. This field has become the method of choice when including HTML in a description. When using HTML, both fields must be included so that iCalendar readers that do not support the X-ALT-DESC field can still read the text version.
I've not personally tried this, though.
Can you post a screen shot showing an example of what you want formatting added to?
Also, what calendar app are you using to view the iCal feed?
Here's an example of one of our events. We have a number of custom fields set to provide basic gig info to the team. In plan text, it not the easiest to read.
Ideally, we could simply bold the custom field names (e.g. 'Parking / Loading Information') and maybe put the field values on a new line below the names.
I have users that consume the iCal feed in Google, Outlook, and Apple.
Okay, I'll put the formatting with X-ALT-DESC on my wish list.
Meanwhile, I just updated the iCal feed to put custom field headings and values on separate lines. iCal feeds are cached on both ends, so you'll need to add or update an event in BandHelper and induce your calendar app to refresh (that's difficult with Google) before you see the change.