Update Contact Field in AMY Events

[Talishask]

Currently the 'contact:' field in an AMY event lists information pulled from the workshop repo.

The field currently lists multiple email addresses as one continuous string rather than separating them with a delimiter or comma. For example, in this workshop: https://amy.carpentries.org/workshops/event/2019-10-24-gitbash/

With the update of the WRF to request additional contacts, we would like to update the contact field in the AMY event to:

• List the emails from the 'Additional contacts:' field of the workshop request form [in place of the contacts from the workshop website]
• Separate the email addresses with a comma

While this does not cause a work stoppage, it may be an important update to integrate into the typeform survey workflow.

[pbanaszkiewicz]

Hello @Talishask. There are two things going on in here.

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First:

The field currently lists multiple email addresses as one continuous string rather than separating them with a delimiter or comma. For example, in this workshop: https://amy.carpentries.org/workshops/event/2019-10-24-gitbash/

The reason for this is that the source website contains the email addresses joined: https://ucsbcarpentry.github.io/2019-10-24-gitbash/ (open source for this website in your browser, it's CTRL+U in Firefox on Windows), line 33:

    <meta name="contact" content="library-collaboratory@ucsb.edujonjab@ucsb.edu" />

So I assume the error is in workshop-template.

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Second:

With the update of the WRF to request additional contacts, we would like to update the contact field in the AMY event [...]

Take a look at https://amy.carpentries.org/requests/workshop_request/396/ - it's a request that contains multiple additional contacts. Granted, it looks terrible - should be displayed as bullet points [sidenote: I added a bug #1573 for this]. But it does look like we accept multiple additional contacts in WRF form(s).

It looks like additional_contact from WorkshopRequest isn't being populated further to contact field in Event. I think we can somewhat easily change this.

[fmichonneau]

@pbanaszkiewicz Would AMY parse the email addresses correctly if there were comma-separated in the website metadata? or should only the first address be included in the metadata?

[pbanaszkiewicz]

@fmichonneau the quickest & easiest solution is to display comma-separated addresses in contact field separately (ie. only on HTML level), but it wouldn't mean that AMY started interpreting these separate addresses individually.

[fmichonneau]

@pbanaszkiewicz I updated the workshop template: now, when multiple addresses are provided for the contacts, they are separated by a | like other fields (see carpentries/workshop-template@0594d9a). This should make the import of these addresses easier on the AMY side.