JOINDIN-273: Grid display of sessions about joindin-web2 HOT 14 CLOSED

Comment created by jsundquist:

Having a grid system in general would be a good idea for the entire responsive site.

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Comment created by lornajane:

We don't currently have duration stored against the sessions, which is why we don't have a schedule view. Very happy to have it added though!

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Comment created by jsundquist:

I was thinking about this a little bit more and I'm not sure how deep down into looking and acting like a conference site joind.in should become. I could understand adding a drop down above all the talks for both start time and track so users could quickly narrow down the list of talks in order to find the one they are attending. I don't know if it makes sense though to add the full blown schedule. It also will make it harder on event hosts if not all of their presentations are the same length. Take for instance SXSW they have talks that are anywhere from 15 minutes all the way up to 4 hours. Since you also don't know any room numbers how would items like this be displayed?

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Comment created by lornajane:

We do have tracks (or rather, we can have, not all events use this feature). I think adding a grid depends first on us adding a field for duration to the database and to on all the talk edit/update/display pages and into the API.

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Comment created by stevemeyers:

Jonathan - you are correct, we would probably need duration and room in order to make it work. We could make durations and rooms optional, and only offer the grid schedule if both are given.

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Comment created by clair:

What would be extremely cool is that whilst the conference is on-going, we could somehow highlight (maybe with a highlighted background) the current and/or next talks. It would make life so easier when I have a minute to decide what talk and room I should be going to next!

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Comment created by lornajane:

Clair - I agree, I have a dashboard that does a horrible guess at "now and next" for whatever events I'm at, would be lovely to have it as part of the site. Duration is definitely a dependency though - and we've got a PR for that

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Comment created by stevemeyers:

I created a grid display for our conference using the data from the joind.in API. I had to do some horrible hacks to get durations for the sessions... At least until my PR is done.

http://www.openwest.org/schedule-grid/

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Comment created by lornajane:

We do now have a PR for this joindin/joindin-legacy#710

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Comment created by lornajane:

Update! I merged that PR with duration, so that field may now be present for some events (but bear in mind it won't be around for anything historical). So we're all set to get a grid display going - maybe on a "schedule" page on the responsive site? Yay :)

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Comment created by stevemeyers:

This could now be implemented, with the assumption that rooms == tracks. This isn't always true, however. There also would need to be a way to set something as "general" that would cross all tracks, for keynotes and such. Or keynotes could just be assumed to span tracks. Anyway, there are some assumptions that need to be addressed before a grid could be done.

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Comment created by lornajane:

We have a work in progress on this one: #35

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Comment created by lornajane:

This has been merged and enjoyed for some time :)

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Issue was closed with resolution "Fixed"

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