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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on October 28, 2010 at 7:11am

Any chance it could be set up so it pulls in anything with the word "winter" and is not case sensitive?
There are already a bunch of listings up that don't have this exact tag.

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Permalink Reply by Gin on October 28, 2010 at 8:06am

I talked to Andrew about this. Thing is "bikewinter" pulls up so many. Not sure how to do "bikewinter" and "winter" and "snow" (another tag) I can help screen and Julie can help add tags for now.

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Bedno on November 4, 2010 at 7:44am

Technical notes for the interested, as replied to Gin last week on the question of simply using a "winter" tag instead of "bikewinter". Note URLs below refer to a temporary testing bed, not the live BW site.

I've enhanced http://massup.us/winter to allow showing different filters for testing.
http://massup.us/winter/ shows “bikewinter” keyword, existing default.
http://massup.us/winter?f=winter shows “winter” keyword. (a different set of events, starting in December)

Using just "winter" would work if someone changed every “bikewinter” tag to “winter”
But currently only a few events have the “winter” keyword alone, while several hundred (?) have “bikewinter”. See breakdown of frequency by keyword at http://www.thechainlink.org/events/event/listAllTypes

I then tried sourcing the feed from a text search, rather than keyword, and it turns up a different set, maybe paying no attention to keyword. Try this: http://massup.us/winter?f=*winter

I would’ve liked to have implemented a merged feed from several keywords, but that would increase my code complexity an order of magnitude (and increase network loads). Can do if that's what must be done.

My above use a PHP fetch, whereas I'd guess the updated BW site is using a simple iframe, which may be a good idea. Just make sure the URL is to the keyword feed and not the whole calendar, though right now virtually all events are applicable anyway.

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Bedno on November 4, 2010 at 8:01am

What's missing (I tried, but maybe not hard enough) is compound and partial keyword query capabilities, which may be a current Ning limit.

Bottom line, for now, add a "bikewinter" tag to any events remotely bike winter-y. I understand willow did a hero's job with that last year.

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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on November 4, 2010 at 6:35pm

That's fine-- I just would have either liked to know that that had to be the tag exactly, or would have liked if someone had fixed my tags for me upon event approval.

Andrew, in the meantime the decision has been made that we would like to implement a separate calendar on the Bike Winter site, but for the time being, one thing that could be really cool would be to be able to show a whole month's worth of events, ideally truncated to very basic details only.

Are we stuck at 10 events visible because of NING or is there a way to pull in more?

Thanks.

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