drykath/mc-schedule

mc-schedule

The mc-schedule app provides the user-facing convention panel and room schedule for the Motor City Furry Con website.

Live demo: https://motorcityfurrycon.org/schedule/ (Well, usually best in the spring when the convention is gearing up.)

Features

• Customizable -- uses standard Django templates/static files.
• Grid and list views -- extend as needed by inheriting the base CBV.
• Filter view by track.
• Past events vanish as the day progresses, showing only the current and future items.
• Past events, when displayed, show a small feedback question.
• Users can mark events and create a customized schedule. Users can mark events as things they don't care to see.
• ICS calendar links -- users can add to a calendar app, like Google Calendar, sync to their phones, set alarms for panels. Updates automatically if the schedule changes.
• Template tag to display upcoming panels on other parts of the site.
• Schedule import (of a specific format, but clone and tune the process as needed.)
• Day transitions other than midnight -- things can be scheduled Saturday, 11 PM to 1 AM.
• Upload map images for each room, and override those where needed for specific events.
• View previous year archived schedules.

Installation

It requires a Convention parent object, representing the convention year that the schedule is for. This by default expects to come from the mc-convention app, but that can be overridden if you already have a model that represents that. See the mc-convention docs for how to set CONVENTION_MODEL to something else.

This still uses some other interfaces from that app, so:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ....
    'convention',
    'schedule',
    ....
]

And customize the templates/CSS styles as needed. If you use the provided templates make sure the APP_DIRS key is enabled in the TEMPLATES settings, or just copy or make your own as needed.

Settings

The app has a few things you can configure in your settings.py:

• SCHEDULE_IS_PUBLIC, boolean, self-descriptive.
• SCHEDULE_DAY_TRANSITION_HOUR defaults to 4 (4 AM.)
• SCHEDULE_MEDIA_UPLOAD_TO as the subdirectory where room/panel map image uploads are stored under the media directory, defaults to 'schedule/'.
• SCHEDULE_TOKEN_SALT_PREFIX just in case you want to tinker with the salt used to compute the hash for the customized schedule ICS calendar links.

Known Issues

There might be some discrepancies whether USE_TZ is enabled. Will be testing this more soon.