Improve ease of adding events to website

[amandavisconti]

A closed ticket had some ideas that could or could not be useful: Add & test event.html check to include end_date and/or end_time display only if present remove "author" as event post option & template call add speaker as event post option & template call (and style) , but make it only display if exists (some events have no speaker, e.g. transcribe-a-thon) move "layout" column to just something the script appends to each post make script create "slug" from hyphenating title (and remove from spreadsheet column) Input body content too? Way to do this easily, or (far worse) set as YAML variable then {{events.content}} pulls in? In script (not spreadsheet), add quotation marks around each input

Resources:

about the script: http://www.evanlovely.com/utilities/jekyll/spreadsheet-to-markdown/
the script: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EvanLovely/csv_to_jekyll/master/csv_to_jekyll.py
event template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qLncvRa6aqQPpf2BtZwGJFf_vqrLTG6EB6qoyenZxLc/edit
sheet to turn into file: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AkkCmNsWGTTbLUyLvekg_nFtsDanMfqqU02QZyN-l1A/edit#gid=0

For later:

Jeremy suggests just serve directly from spreadsheet

How to not read in & create new posts for whole spreadsheet each time (only new or changed data?)

[amandavisconti]

I'm testing out whether we could use a 2-tab Gsheet to input event info (with dropdowns/date-time formatting) and spit out the YAML to copy from the other tab (and paste into event file). link

Might be moot if we find a way to import from LibCal?

[amandavisconti]

Update from 9/17/2024 Laura, Jeremy, Amanda meeting:

• Jeremy will look at LibCal's API, toward adding events in LibCal and having them show up on Slab site (maybe via CSV midpoint)
• We'd like to be able to only enter events on the Library calendar, if that'll let us pull in the metadata fields we need to display on our site? Complication is can't make individual event-post pages this way, but a midpoint CSV would allow that
• Figure out if keep current categories as-is vs. change
• Can we get DH Portal to use Library cal so we get our events auto showing there?
• Events Archive page: manual summer update, so disjoint from API and never lose events when categories get changed, events deleted from LibCal, etc.

[amandavisconti]

Update from 10/8/2024 chats:

• Jeremy is making sure we can pull past events (so they still show up on our site day after an event)
• We use LibCal to manage adding events for the given academic year; title, date, link to LibCal details page appear listed on our /events page
• Archiving events is handled separately (Amanda can do at end of each term); export CSV, plop into folder, make /events-archive display all past event details. That way we are responsible for the record (e.g. we don't lose it if someone decides to "clean up" past events in LibCal)