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Events for LocalGov Drupal.
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Events search #3

Closed stephen-cox closed 3 years ago

stephen-cox commented 3 years ago

Full spec here: https://github.com/localgovdrupal/localgov/issues/136

stephen-cox commented 3 years ago

@willguv @finnlewis It looks like it's not going to be possible to have a full text search and recurring events. This is because the Date Recur module doesn't integrate with Search API yet. There's an issue for this, but no progress has been made, https://www.drupal.org/project/date_recur/issues/2911761, and it doesn't look like an easy fix - @ekes was the last person to comment on the issue, so might have some thoughts on this.

How critical are recurring events? The easiest thing is to drop them until the Date Recur module supports Search API. An alternative will be to drop the full text search, but this will create some extra work getting the facets to work without Search API. There maybe some alternatives to these two options, but there is limited time to get this fully working and work on this is largely blocked until we reach a decision on this.

willguv commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the info @stephen-cox. Recurring events will be critical once councils start using our Events functionality. I wonder though when this will be. Andy Wallis said that the Events in the BHCC site isn't getting a lot of use currently, due to the lockdown. We can check Tom and other councils too.

It would be good to chat through the options at Monday's stand up. Right now, it feels like the best option is to continue without recurring events so we have something to flow content into and test with users, then revisit at a later date. Let's decide next week.

stephen-cox commented 3 years ago

As discussed as standup - we will remove the text search functionality and keep the recurring dates. We could add a separate text search if there's time.

stephen-cox commented 3 years ago

@willguv @finnlewis Just to update you on this, I have a solution for this as long as you're happy with drop downs for the neighbourhood, cost and category filters. I hope to have something to demo quickly tomorrow at standup.