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Gary Smith, Web Department Director at DiocesanBlake Stapleton, Web Designer at DiocesanVeronica Alvarado, Project Manager at DiocesanKyle Brown, Web Development at DiocesanMary Goeldel, DiocesanKyle Sullivan, Web Development at DiocesanSam Pohlman, Web Developer at DiocesanDanae Chudy, Web Designer at DiocesanNathalie Shultz, Web ConsultantChristine White, Marketing/Communications Coordinator at Holy Family Catholic Church Orlando StaffJulie Kreinheder, Director of Operations at Holy Family Catholic Church Orlando StaffDan Roberts, Systems Admin/IT at Holy Family Catholic Church Orlando StaffCody Armock, Web Content Specialist at DiocesanFermin Toro, Director of Network Operations for CCTN at Holy Family Catholic Church Orlando StaffLynn Ramsey, Holy Family Catholic Church Orlando Staff +9 others
Posted by Kyle Sullivan ·

Events: EMS to WordPress

The client has requested a calendar feed that will ultimately be displayed like Exhibit A.
Exhibit A • Download
The client is quite attached to their custom EMS Calendar, so unless we can convince them to transition to G Suite (whether in whole or in part [like with calendars that display information for a particular group]), we'll probably have to craft a solution with that.

I have some questions about this display.
  1. How attached are they to this proof, or are they willing to deviate from it? I'm guessing they'll be somewhat flexible with this, but we should ask them this directly.

  2. How much control do they have over the EMS XML output? Are the fields currently being output all they can do, or can they manipulate this data. If they can manipulate the data, to what extent is that possible? Can they change the way the dates are displayed and create separate outputs by—for example—group? If not, we'll probably need to use something like WP All Import (http://www.wpallimport.com/order-now/) with ACF, which would cost $199, plus the labor to initialize and configure the same.

  3. Can there be separate outputs for different groups and/or to be displayed on different parts of the website? I already touched on this, but can the sorting and filtering be done on their end? Said another way, how closely can they provide us this data in a structure and format that matches Exhibit A (or its successor)?

  4. How does this XML get updated? I presume this is some sort of automated feed. Otherwise, how does this data get updated? What kind of maintenance would there be? Would they need to upload new XML? Would they need to organize this data into categories/taxonomies?

  5. Are they opposed to outputting this data to G Suite and/or setting up a few limited calendars in Google to serve as a data source for the calendars they need? It wouldn't be too difficult to match Exhibit A from G Suite and Simple Calendar. Also, the following links may be helpful for this: https://www.integromat.com/en/integrations/google-calendar/xml and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31502384/feed-xml-to-google-calendar.

I'm sure more questions will arise as we work through this, but here are some starting points for us.

Comments & Events

Veronica Alvarado, Project Manager at Diocesan Veronica Alvarado, Project Manager

Options

  1. Customize XML to pull what we need for calendar to look like design
  2. Display what the XML is currently putting out (requires a bit of redesign)
  3. Pay for ACF plugin

Questions

  1. Where does View All go? 
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