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Link directly to individual workshop descriptions? #162

Closed hackartisan closed 8 years ago

hackartisan commented 8 years ago

Is there any easy way to add in anchors so that we can link directly to a single, expanded workshop description? The voting form doesn't allow us to make these expandable so we'd like to provide direct links instead to reduce visual clutter.

Currently our only option may be to copy everything back over to the wiki so we can link to the descriptions :(

hackartisan commented 8 years ago

(just as background: we're using a google form for voting because the usual code4lib voting app doesn't work well for workshop selection (when a person will only attend a single workshop in each time slot)

queryluke commented 8 years ago

@hackmastera can I see what the form looks like?

We can create static pages for each of the workshop proposals and you can link to the page. The problem is defining an ID. I've been removing special characters from the proposal timestamp, but if you're hard coding the links into the form, we'd have to figure out something else.

hackartisan commented 8 years ago

The set is finite at this point; can we just use a variation of each title?

hackartisan commented 8 years ago

Oh, the form is totally not finished yet. But we will basically publish it as soon as it is ready (i.e. some time today) so if there's no quick way to grab an anchor into the existing page, maybe it's not worth doing.

queryluke commented 8 years ago

In the interest of time, I made a second page with anchor links. The anchor links use the full title with all special characters removed and spaces replaces by dashes. Here is the regex used if you're using Apps Script to create the form

id = entry["Preconference Title"].replace(/[^\w\s\d]/gi, ''); id = id.replace(/[\s]/gi, '-');

the page is http://2016.code4lib.org/workshops

Let me know if that doesn't work for your needs

hackartisan commented 8 years ago

@roastduckalamode You are a hero!!

hackartisan commented 8 years ago

Wait I think maybe the anchor needs to be inside the div? the page is loading such that the heading is off-screen for me.

queryluke commented 8 years ago

My bad! I was using the cssID twice. I'm pushing now, may take a few minutes for the site to re-compile

hackartisan commented 8 years ago

Works great. Thank you!!