Series of events

1

How to create a series of events e.g conference organised in every year?

2

There’s no special support for this, so you simply create individual events (or clone the previous one so you can keep some things that usually remain the same or similar).

3

At least in the code there is some support (but I think only available for lectures).
See indico/modules/events/controllers/creation.py:

from indico.modules.events.models.series import EventSeries

and

    if self.event_type == EventType.lecture:
            events = self._create_series(form.data)
            event = events[0]
            if len(events) > 1:
                flash(Markup(render_template('events/series_created_msg.html', events=events)), 'info')

This was introduced in:

commit da037864bee2c49864c13cab3eebc3cb8e50ecae
Author: Adrian Moennich <adrian.moennich@cern.ch>
Date:   Fri Jul 22 18:11:11 2016 +0200

    Add basic lecture series creation

There is a small ‘add occurences’ below the dates.
What is missing is a way to manage the series linking after creation.

Creating an EventSeries and adding it as series to the evetns via indico shell seems to work:

es=EventSeries()
e1 = Event.find_first(id=<id1>)
e2 = Event.find_first(id=<id2>)
e1.series=es
e2.series=es
db.session.commit()

(tested with a meeting, for conferences setting the series also works, but there is currently no rendering in frontend)

4

you are right, atm there’s no way (besides indico shell) to manage/create such series except when creating multi-occurrence lectures.

5

And to be really useful with conferences probably the Series model needs some improvement as well, e.g. a name field to enable things like:

MLZ conference Series: Topic1 2019
MLZ conference Series: Topic2 2020
6

Front end rendering of the series info could be done by an custom template(overriding templates/display/conference/base.html) :

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
                                        <img src="{{ event.logo_url }}" alt="{{ event.title }}" border="0" class="confLogo">
                                     </div>
                                 {% endif %}
-                                <span itemprop="title">{{ event.title }}</span>
+                                <span itemprop="title">{{ event.get_verbose_title(show_series_pos=True) }}</span>

or

@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@
                                 {%- trans tz=event.display_tzinfo.zone %}{{ tz }} timezone{% endtrans -%}
                             </div>
                        </div>
   +                       {% if event.series %}
   +                       <div class="series"> {{event.series_pos}}/{{event.series_count}} </div>
   +                       {% endif %}
7

There is already a related issue. No implementation foreseen for the moment, but if someone wants to help, go for it!