Program Creation from Accepted Papers
Shane Birley - July 18, 2007 - 16:44
| Project: | Conference |
| Version: | 5.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
The ability to turn accepted papers into some sort of program. This may be a connector to the Views module and Calendar project or something like that. I am just putting the idea out there since I can see all kinds of functionality that could be built into this module.
Any thoughts?
I am also willing to help sponsor such functionality like this.
#1
I agree that this would be nice.
But I think building a conference timetable is usually a quite delicate story and can't be well automatized.
In most conferences I know distinctions are made between plenary speakers, etc.,
all this meta information is not present in the current version.
In fact at present although called "conference" module it's rather a "submission - reviewing - acceptance" management system than truly something specific to a conference as such
(b.t.w. maybe the module could be used for several other things of this kind by removing some unnecessary specificities to the "conference" idea)
OTOH, of course one could imagine a "timetable building form" where the accepted conferences would be available aside and could be "dragged" into the timetable - what a dream !
(I had / wanted to program such a timetable construction kit for my faculty and never managed to finalize it - admittedly it was more complex since an item of the timetable was linked at the same time
(a) to a (sub) group of students, (b) to a room, (c) to a teacher, (d) a given week of the year
with lots of consistency checks, "dynamic" restrictions (availability of the teacher / room / ... w.r.t. "external" constraints) & other potential problems....)
BTW, such a timetable construction kit might already exist and/or could be realized independently of the conf module, then only some "interface" between the two (export/import function from one to the other) would be needed to be written.
then, editing a conference programme in PDF including this timetable and/or the book of abstracts would just be a stone throw away...
I agree this module is quite "open" for additional features - unfortunately I seriously lack time to do it
(will already have to see if I'll find something to eat and/or(!) some minutes of sleep this night... ;-)
#2
still not sure if I'm thinking on the same wavelength than you, but...
regarding a Timetable Manager, cf: http://drupal.org/node/157630 , especially the last post (just some days old)
(I don't have the time to figure out...)
#3
That looks like a great idea and I believe we are on very similar wavelengths. Dragging and dropping would be interesting, but I am not looking for something that complex. And, true, the conference module is not really much more than a validation tool for some kind of a posted node - but it does it exactly as most processes go. Maybe a companion module linking to the event system in CCK is the way to go.
Something like:
- an accepted paper could have a set of date fields appear to the conference manager
- once the date fields are selected, the information is transferred into an event node
It may not be glorious and cool, but it would be functional. Of course, I am neglecting many other options and other ways it could be accomplished. I am just brainstorming it out.