List of talks on a speaker page shouldn't show at all if there is no talk

[mattstratton]

On individual speaker pages, there is a section that lists the talk(s) they are giving at the event.

Sometimes, a speaker doesn't (yet) have a talk page. In that case, currently, it looks kind of odd.

We should check for associated talks prior to displaying "Speaker name at EVENT" header section, and not show it at all if there isn't a talk.

[mattstratton]

This is easier to do slightly efficiently in the newer code - example, this is the range statement that gets all the talks for that speaker at the event:

{{- range where (where $.Site.Pages "Type" "new-talk") ".File.Dir" "=" (printf "new-events/%s/%s/program/" $event_year $event_city) -}}

So I think we could do an easy index type thing against that type of query and if it is true, move on with things, etc.

[mattstratton]

Eh. It's actually not that simple; because of how we have to find out if the speaker is in the talk.

if you could do something in the query like this (pseudocode)

where ".Params.speakers" "in" $speaker_slug

so I think the query would look like this:

where (where (where $.Site.Pages "Type" "new-talk") ".File.Dir" "=" (printf "new-events/%s/%s/program/" $event_year $event_city)) $speaker_slug "in" ".Params.speakers"

(note that the parens/order might not be quite right;

[bridgetkromhout]

I agree that the current situation is non-ideal. I also suspect that we may not want to encourage "this person is a speaker for our event but we aren't going to list their talk", so I'm unsure how high-priority this may be?

[mattstratton]

It solves a problem I personally currently have, and it’s relatively easy to fix in the code I’m already working on.

This isn’t a documented feature by any means. More just like a way to make the site look better if this condition happens.

[mattstratton]

FWIW the condition is “Bridget is a speaker but we don’t have her talk title/abstract yet”

[bridgetkromhout]

(nods) I don't object to the fix. I'm noting that I can see it being used in ways we wouldn't encourage.

[mattstratton]

Yeah, I mean people can do this now, it just creates a weird look on the page.

People are already doing this. I think it also goes back to that this isn't adding a feature or even anything we would advertise :)