Classes, Events and Integration with DinKurs.se
Contents
Background, vision, and overall description
- Background
- Vision
- Market / Opportunity
- The System (description)
- Possible Path
- Ask the users to be involved
- Questions for Dinkurs
User Stories
- SHF is the major place where dog owners come and search for dog events
- Member Enters info about an event they're offering
- Member Sets and event as published or not, and when
- Visitor searches for an event based on criteria
- Visitor browses through all events
- Visitor can browse through past events
- Visitor can sign up to be notified about event updates
- SHF Home/Landing page lists upcoming events
- SHF Home/Landing page has featured upcoming events
- Events are Shown in multiple forms: text lists and calendars
- Member Enters their DinKurs company id so their DinKurs events can be displayed in SHF
- Member sets their DinKurs Events as published or not on SHF site
SHF Members and Companies offer classes and events for dog owners.
Since a few years back DinKurs is giving members a substantial discount to use their event-managing system (including getting payments, etc.). The board would like to honour this discount by making it super-easy for our members to display the classes listed there on their company page. And later also have them searchable by topic or location.
This also adds great value for the members, it is in itself a reason to want to be member.
The SHF website should be the one site where dog owners can come and search for events (in addition to searching for companies and skills offered) held by dog companies ruled by ethics.
Visitors can for example search for all 'agility' events in the country, or in their city or even in their neighborhood. Or list all classes within a 5km radius. Or 10k.
For the Future: Have a setting that is "reachable by public transportation" yes or no.
hundkartan.se tried to be such a place, but they list many many things. And are funded by advertising.
(It seems nobody has listed any classes with them:
https://hundkartan.se/Hundkurser
But they have quite a few in the "doggie day care" category:
https://hundkartan.se/Kronoberg/hunddagis )
So SHF would be the first place to list ethically good dog businesses and their events.
So, the system should pull in and list things from DinKurs xml, but if someone does not have a Dinkurs account, they should be able to schedule an event in the SHF system.
Required fields:
- Event Fee
- Start Date: YYYY-MM-DD
- Event Infotext: "Text about the event, can be really long, see http://dinkurs.se/appliance/?event_id=48687" Need to figure out how to do then..
- Sign up link/button: http://dinkurs.se/appliance/?event_id=48687&action=apply
- Location (infered from company or gotten from xml)
- Event Type (Possible Choices:)
- Föreläsning
- Klass
- Konferens / Möte
- Seminarie
- Teater / Konsert
- Tävling / Match
- Undervisning
- Utbildning / Certifiering
- Workshop
- Övrigt
User finds their company-key easily on this page: https://dinkurs.se/admin/?form=company_info&function=company&action=load One gets there from "settings-wheel" to "Ändra företagsuppgifter"
- Set up the event system for manually entered events and listing them on their company page
- Let the member hide/show individual events (toggle button?)
- Make a field on (for example) edit company page and grab data from din-kurs xml when such a code ("yFKGQJ") is entered.
- create a list and search-function for events on a separate page
- combine the page of find company and find class in an elegant manner. May require mockups.
Maybe send out email to the members telling them that we're starting work on this, and so the first part is understanding what they want: Ask them to send us their wish lists for this. And perhaps we can get a user or 2 willing to work/talk with us on this as we develop user stories and features.
- Is there any way that we can request a subset of all of the event records for a company? For example:
- All events that have been created or modified on or after a specified date?
- Only events for which the event date is on or after a specified date?
- It seems that there are some incomplete and/or test event records in some of the data we have looked at.
- Can these be removed from the data that is sent to us via the API?
- If not, how can we determine whether a specific event record is "real"?
These are possible user stories. These are here so that conversations can be had, and then so these can be changed and added to and deleted.
As an organization Because there is no other single place where dog owners can search for dog events in Sweden, especially for ethical dog companies, And because DinKurs provides a discount to SHF members so many of them use it, to make the SHF site more valuable for members by bringing more site visitors to their pages, Sveriges Hundföretagare should let members enter and manage event information, including connecting to DinKurs so that dog owners can find and search for the events.
As a member So that I can reach as many potential customers/clients as possible I want to have information about my upcoming event be shown on the SHF site
- I have all of the information about my event
- I have some of the information and want to enter that now, but don't want the information published yet
- I have some of the information and want to enter that now and do want the information published, with some indicator or words that "more information will be coming"
As a member So that I can control whether or not information for one of my events is shown on the SHF site, I need to be able to set an event to "published" or "not published"
- Scenario: set a "publish on" date
- Scenario: set a "unpublish on" date
As a visitor So that I can find exactly what I need for myself and my dog(s) I need to be able to set criteria/filters when searching events
As a visitor So that I can learn about different events even when I don't know all of the possible criteria, And so that I can look at them all in a way that makes sense to me, I want to browse through the events with the ability to order the list by different criteria
As a visitor So that I can see events that I might have missed but might be interested in in the future, Let me browse through events that have already happened
As a visitor So that I know if information about an upcoming event is added or updated, And so that SHF Members (the event organizer/owner) sees tangible evidence that the SHF site is providing them with some business leads, I want to be able to sign up to get an email when info for an event changes.
As a visitor So that I can see events in the way that works best for me And because some people deal with one format better than another, or might want one format in a certain context, Display events in both a text format and a calendar format (and any other formats that prove helpful)
Maybe there is a place where a list of upcoming events can be seen by site visitors
Maybe members can buy a 'featured spot' for their upcoming event (like buying an ad on a website)
As a Member So that I can take advantage of the events I've already entered in DinKurs And so the SHF site can be more valuable to members I want to enter the info needed (my DinKurs company ID?) in SHF so that it can connect with DinKurs and display my events
As a Member So that I have control over what events are displayed on SHF just like I do for non-DinKurs events, I need to be able to specify which of my events are "published" or "not published" on SHF (and when), just like non-DinKurs events are handled.
