macOS widget Access to the calendar is not granted. Grant access from the system settings, no prompt?

mvaneijgen · August 6, 2021, 2:43pm

I know it still is in beta, but removing the calendar works like a charm, so I was wondering if it would be possible to allow Scriptable access to the calendar.

I’m not getting a prompt and in System Preferences, click Security & Privacy, then click Privacy, doesn’t list Scriptable. And I see no way of adding it manually.

Error on line 13:39: Access to the calendar is not granted. Grant access from the system settings.

FifiTheBulldog · August 7, 2021, 1:01am

Have you tried running the script to get the prompt in the app rather than in a widget?

mvaneijgen · August 7, 2021, 7:48am

Yep, that was it! Thanks

mvaneijgen · August 9, 2021, 3:06pm

I was a bit to early to celebrate. The access has now been fixed, but within the widget none of my items get ‘printed’.

When I run the script manually everything works as expected, but when in the notification area none of my items show up.

FifiTheBulldog · August 10, 2021, 3:17pm

Could you share your script? I’d like to see how you implemented the calendar portion.

mvaneijgen · August 10, 2021, 4:46pm

I can.

Here the module I use in my widget Scriptable/_Widget Calendar.js at master · mvaneijgen/Scriptable · GitHub

And here my widget it self (you can disalbe modules you don’t need)

github.com

mvaneijgen/Scriptable/blob/master/Widget Ubersicht.js#L82

    
      
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            batteryText.rightAlignText()
          }
          // END top bar  --------------//
          //--------------------------------//
          // Calendar row
          /*--------------------------------
          | CAL 1                    CAL 3 |
          | CAL 1                    CAL 3 |
          --------------------------------*/
          if (typeof calendar !== 'undefined') {
            let calendarItems = await calendar.items()
            calendarItems = calendarItems.slice(0, 4)
            calendarItems.forEach((item, index, array) => {
              // Add a new row every two items
              if (index % 2 === 0) {
                row = stack.addStack()
                row.url = "calshow://"
              }
              const calStack = row.addStack()
              calStack.layoutVertically();

Everywhere this work fine, iPadOS, iOS, and macOS, except for the widget in the notification center

FifiTheBulldog · August 11, 2021, 2:28am

I tested your script on both iOS and macOS. It seems to be exactly as you described: the only place where no calendar events are returned is in the Notification Center on macOS. It works perfectly everywhere else. I can’t find any flaws in your code. (I also did some more direct testing of the CalendarEvent methods that you’re using to get the calendar events; they are returning empty arrays. I didn’t test the rest of the event retrieval methods exhaustively, but those that I did test seem to have the same issue.)

Unfortunately, I think this is just a beta bug that we’ll have to wait for Simon to fix. I can’t think of any way around the issue. Time to submit feedback.

mvaneijgen · August 11, 2021, 6:58am

Thanks, I thought it was me. Yeah, I fixed it for now by placing the normal calendar widget in my notification center, because there is enough space on my desktop screen.

Is there a dedicated macOS bug report channel? I don’t need it fixed this instance, but would love to write up a report on how to reproduce it and just log it some where.

FifiTheBulldog · August 11, 2021, 5:13pm

I don’t know of a dedicated feedback channel for the Scriptable for Mac beta, but I suppose you could send feedback to the email in the app.