Bug: Project meeting data from VRMS is not updating

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Overview

We need to find and fix the data on the project's page for events not updating , so that people who are looking to join teams have accurate meeting data.

Details

The meeting time is showing up on the Events page but not on the project page. Which means the API is working, but somehow we are not updating the data used on the projects page.

Action Items

• Identify and document how to replicate problem
• Identify and document source files
• Identify and document what it should be doing
• Figure out what is broken

Resources/Instructions

• GHA: vrms data
  • https://github.com/hackforla/website/blob/gh-pages/_data/external/vrms_data.json
• in the text under Hack for LA's Site Architecture, page section, project-meetings.html there is info about how the API is used on the Events page.
  • This file is referenced but gets 404 project-meetings-from-vrms.json in the _data folder
• in the text under Hack for LA's Site Architecture, API Endpoints section there is info about how its used
• _layouts/project.html line 65 page where the meeting time info is displayed
• JS file that gets the data

Replicating problem

1. Logging into VRMS
2. Seeing the meeting data it provides

VRMS team page in VRMS.io application

4. Checking the meetings against what appears on the website for the project page

VRMS page on hackforla.org website

5. Checking the meetings against what appears on the hackforla.org Events page

Sunday meetings list

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Double check that the Events page is using the same api as the project page via is js file.

https://github.com/hackforla/website/blob/gh-pages/assets/js/project.js#L125

• const API_URL = 'https://www.vrms.io/api/recurringevents';

Its using the same api, but it might be calling the data seperately instead of using the file https://github.com/hackforla/website/blob/gh-pages/_data/external/vrms_data.json that is created by the 2am pst chron job (GHA: https://github.com/hackforla/website/blob/gh-pages/.github/workflows/vrms-data.yml)

[MattPereira]

Availability: 7 - 9 PM Sunday - Thursday
ETA: asap

[MattPereira]

@ExperimentsInHonesty

There is a meeting object in the vrms_data.json array that looks like this

Since the project key of this meeting object has a null value, an error is thrown on the 56th iteration of the for loop that appends the meetings to the project page

website/assets/js/project.js

Line 131 in 40fe386

for (let i = 0; i <= scheduleData.length - 1; i++) {

website/assets/js/project.js

Line 134 in 40fe386

let webURL = scheduleData[i].project.hflaWebsiteUrl;

The unhandled error results in the for loop exiting before the final 57th iteration runs, which is the iteration that would append the infamous "Sun 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm testing" that is currently missing from the VRMS project page.

You can see this error on the live site if you visit https://www.hackforla.org/projects/vrms and open the browser console.

[MattPereira]

Let me know if I should merge my own PR since this fix is needed ASAP or if you'd prefer I wait for reviews

[MattPereira]

I also just noticed that the projectTitle "Access The Data" does not match casing with the VRMS data for project.name so I am adding a .toLowerCase() method to both the projectTitle and projectName to fix it.

You can see Access the Data meeting times are currently broken on the live site: https://www.hackforla.org/projects/access-the-data