Events
The process I’m using to update events is awfully laborious: I’m hand-editing the database by moving ones and zeroes around with tweezers, pretty much. I really want to fix the event database by chopping it out and replacing it with XML files. Some features it needs:
- Right now we can identify events as singular, weekly or monthly, with flexibility for stuff like “every second week on a Tuesday” or “the last Wednesday of the month”. It needs to also be able to specify exceptions, as in: every Wednesday except when the baronial meeting is on” or similar.
- The space for event details is pretty sparse. I’d like to be able to put more information in, possibly including pictures, bloggy style.
- Every event has a time, but I don’t have facility for including that except as plain text. It would need to be a list (armour inspection 1pm, tourney 2pm, hall opens 5.30pm, etc).
- Ditto with prices, including member/non-member and so on.
- Ditto with bookings: required/preferred/none, bookings officer, policy for cancellations and blow-ins.
- We have links to Google Maps, but they could be inlined in the main page.
- I don’t need a web form for editing, but some sort of pre-publication preview would be useful.