Update Team Meeting data on the Events page to show meeting frequency

[Thinking-Panda]

Overview

Currently the Online Project Team Meeting section of Events page has Day, Start Time, End Time, Name of Project, and Name of Meeting. As some of the meetings do not happen weekly (like Onboarding), we need to mark those meetings and add a message to visit project page for more information.

Action Items

• Analyze and understand the data in _data/external/vrms_data.json
• Update Team Meeting data on the Events page to add asterisk to the end of "Name of Meeting" if it's not weekly.
• Add the following text to the end of the "Online Project Team Meetings" section.

  *This meeting is not weekly, check project link for more details.
  

• Using Docker, check the changes on your local machine

Resources/Instructions

• Event Page
• JSON Data File
• Js File
• HTML File
• This issue was created from ER: have the meeting data be more relevant, depending on what page it appears on #6320

[colin-macrae]

Hi @Thinking-Panda - What's the best way for me to find out the frequency of meetings (in order to find out which ones are not weekly). I didn't see anything about frequency in the json data nor on the meeting pages. Many thanks, Colin

[Thinking-Panda]

@colin-macrae The meeting frequency is mentioned under "description" in the JSON file.

[colin-macrae]

Hi @Thinking-Panda , thank you! Many of those "description" properties have no values, and many don't mention anything about frequency. So, here is what I'll do, and please do let me know if I should do differently:

• For all empty values for "description", I will do nothing
• For all which do not explicitly say meetings are not weekly, I will do nothing
• For all which explicitly say meetings are not weekly, I will make the requested changes (asterisk etc..)

Does that sound right? Thanks again, Colin

[Thinking-Panda]

Hi @colin-macrae , that's right. The key "description" has a value only when the meeting is not weekly.

[colin-macrae]

Hi @Thinking-Panda - Okay, and just to be extra sure, the event in the pic below is not weekly since the description key has a value (even though there is no mention of frequency). I'll make the prescribed changes to all which are like this one, and no changes to those with no values. Pls kindly confirm. Many thanks!

[Thinking-Panda]

@colin-macrae the "description" in line 210 is not the description of the event. It is the description of the project. Scroll a little further to see the event description with no value. Hope this helps.

[colin-macrae]

@Thinking-Panda , got it! So many descriptions for each object 🤣. I see that now, and thanks for your patience. ETA is before Thursday (will update above). Thanks again!

[colin-macrae]

Unfortunately I had to unassign myself from this issue for a couple of reasons.

First, I have not used the technologies required to complete the issue and either A) the instructions were a bit vague or B) my inexperience with the site, this file system, and this frontend tech represented a blocker. I tried to get help through dev office hours on Thursday but there was no one there while I waited, from 7-7:10pm. Aside from that I'm traveling out of the country in a couple days and I wouldn't be able to revisit it after today, probably for a few weeks.

I'll look for another issue to pick up, explore moving to a React project, and review some PRs. Many thanks.

[colin-macrae]

@Thinking-Panda , if you want to add these to the issue action items, it could prevent a lot of double work. I've compiled the the list of teams whose meetings are not weekly (by looking throgh all the vrms_data.json file), despite not making changes to the code:

onboarding - new prosp. members
home unite us - all
civic tech jobs - all
civic tech jobs - pm/org
food oasis - all
la tdm calculator - stakeholder
food oasis - uxr team
311 data - leads
expunge assist - all
expunge assist - pm/org
civic tech jobs - leads

[github-actions]

Hi @terrencejihoonjung, thank you for taking up this issue! Hfla appreciates you :)

Do let fellow developers know about your:-
i. Availability: (When are you available to work on the issue/answer questions other programmers might have about your issue?)
ii. ETA: (When do you expect this issue to be completed?)

You're awesome!

P.S. - You may not take up another issue until this issue gets merged (or closed). Thanks again :)

[terrencejihoonjung]

ETA: 6/17/24, 11:59pm PST
Availability: 7pm - 12am PST, everyday

[terrencejihoonjung]

1. Progress: I've modified the JSON file to include a "isWeekly" key with their corresponding boolean value. I've also implemented conditional rendering of the asterisk depending on whether isWeekly is false.
2. Blockers: I'm having some issues with isWeekly showing up as "undefined" even though the JSON file is valid and contains the appropriate data. My docker is also displaying the website in the incorrect format, so I will have to go to office hours to fix that u
3. Availability: 7pm - 12am PST, everyday
4. ETA: 6/21/24, 11:59pm PST

[t-will-gillis]

Reopening this issue: The previous solution relies on direct edits to vrms-data.json. These edits are over-written by the daily workflow run of "Update VRMS Data".

[t-will-gillis]

@terrencejihoonjung Please let us know if you would like to keep working on this issue- thanks!

[terrencejihoonjung]

updated ETA: 7/3/24, 11:59pm PST
updated availability: 7pm - 12am PST, weekdays