Allow for the creation & display of curated 'collections'

[SteelWagstaff]

We'd like to display 'featured collections' where we're currently showing 'featured books.' A collection would be a set of records in the directory tagged with the same 'in_collection' value. A book can belong to 1 or more collections.

Initial collection names:

1. Dual or high enrollment courses
2. Interactive OER
3. Accessibility & Inclusivity
4. Open Education
5. Nursing/Healthcare
6. Vocational & Trades
7. Language Learning
8. OpenStax

The first five of these should be the initial 'featured' collections.

The display would be very similar to what we currently show for featured books:

1. A book cover from one of the books in the collection
2. The collection title (a link -- which, when clicked, would load all the books included in that particular collection)

We should also add a new filter/facet called 'Collections' which displays each of the collection options.

• [x] Create a new non-API field for book records 'in_collection'. This field should be able to contain multiple values, each of which is the name of a collection: i.e. Dual enrollment, Interactive OER, Open Education
• [x] Make sure this field's values are preserved when records are updated/replaced (like is_recommended, is_featured)
• [x] Replace 'featured books' with 'featured collections'. Display 5 collections. Clicking on the book cover, collection name should turn on the filter/facet for that collection.

Separate Task: Create a facet/filter called 'Collections' which displays each of the Collections present in Algolia index, a count, and include/exclude buttons https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks-book-directory-fe/issues/159

[richard015ar]

After some testing and discussing with Steel, we agreed book objects in Algolia will contains the following new fields:

"collections": [
    "Accessibility & Inclusivity",
    "Nursing/Healthcare",
    "Language Learning"
],
"coverImageCollections": [
    "Nursing/Healthcare"
 ],

Just like about field. It is easy to filter and to use in PB Directory application. collections field will contains the collections strings where the books belongs to. The coverImageCollections will contains those collections where the cover image of the book will be used for front end application.

I created a script that allows to specify the Algolia's index and objects IDS and the fields to be populated (collections and/or coverImageCollections). It will allow us to be consistent with the data when add/edit collection in the required books.

[richard015ar]

PR: https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks-book-directory-fe/pull/169 Point 4 of this task is in: https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks-book-directory-fe/issues/159

Temporary scripts in: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kTLFb_wV12yQirPqxNOwIQ2LoL7HqMBG/view?usp=sharing

[SteelWagstaff]

Tested. Works as expected in dev and staging environments!