TroopTrack Calendar offers public URLs for “All Event” and also separate URLs for every color. My confusion is around all of the colored URLs (blue, red, etc.). My troop has an Event Type called “Meetings” with a default color of Maroon. However, when I subscribe to the Maroon calendar URL they do not show up. But if I customize the color for one of these meetings to Red, then they show up on the Red calendar URL. This is the same behavior for all Event Types and colors. So in other words, the only way to get an event to show up when subscribing to a colored URL is to use a custom color for a calendar event. Is that how it is supposed to work? The expected behavior is that all events that display as “maroon” would show up when subscribed to the Maroon URL, and all “red” events would show up on the Red URL, and so on.
The Custom Colors for separate Calendar URLs are separate from the default Event Type Colors. For every event you designate an Event Type and those are programmed into the System, minor changes for different types of groups Boy Scouts Campout, Canoeing, Court of Honor, Fundraiser, Hike, Meeting, Other, Service Project, BSA Cub Scout Pack Camping, Canoeing, Den Meeting, Fundraiser, Hike, Meeting, Other, Pack Meeting, Service Project, etc for Girl Scouts and AHG groups. All of those event types have a default color associated with them. Based on customer feedback TT added Custom Colors that included separate Calendar Subscription links to help some units that wanted to be able to subscribed to separate calendars for their different groups. To make this system robust and customizable TT gives you the ability to change what each color is designated for, now it makes sense to keep the color to equal what the default color for an event type is and I am sure most do. However in order for those other links to function you must assign that Custom Color to the event in addition to setting the Event Type.
Thanks, I appreciate the explanation and it sounds like it is working as intended. However, in my opinion this makes the colored calendar URLs fairly useless. The reason is because in order for a custom calendar URL to contain events of a certain type (e.g. Campout) I have to ask that the event coordinator to make use of that customization option for every Campout calendar event that they create. That is too much to ask for many non-detail oriented people. I would rather simply set the Campout Event Type to the color I want and then have that colored calendar URL show all events of that color. But I think we understand each other. At first I thought this feature could offer some value, but I don’t see a way to realistically use it without having to micromanage every event created.