Images for Events and News about startupwichita.com

[lafentres]

@kentonh, I'd like to try this one as well.

[kentonh]

@lafentres have at it and thanks for the help! With as much as you've contributed to this app, you should register for the Wichita Hacktoberfest. Might as well get a free shirt and stickers out of the deal.

[kentonh]

whoops. reopened

[lafentres]

@kentonh, I believe I addressed everything in the pull request I just submitted except for the last part. Can you explain what you mean by "Populate the rest of the form with Social Graph Information, but allow edits by the user" ?

I am pulling everything from information on the event or news item currently. If the event/news item has an image, I use that for the social sharing tags, otherwise I just use the logo. I use the title and content to populate the title and description social sharing tags.

(I'm definitely checking out the Wichita Hacktoberfest as well. Thanks for the tip!)

[kentonh]

What I meant with the Social Graph population was to pre-fill the forms with the information provided by the metadata from Social Graph. Does that make more sense?

[lafentres]

I think so. If I am understanding correctly, you'd like part of the form for creating/editing an event or news item to include fields to edit the social sharing info (which would be the social sharing title and description [unless you'd also like the social sharing image to potentially be different from the image associated with the event/news item?]). And those fields should be pre-filled with the defaults. Is that correct?

[kentonh]

I think I've done a bad job at describing what I'm going for. Soooo. I'll start over! Forget everything I've said up to this point.

• This link was posted as News.
• Startland includes metadata in the Social Graph format.

What I'm proposing is:

1. When a link is posted, the app would acquire the metadata associated with the link (if there is any)
2. The app would pre-fill the submission form with the data. (Image, Title, Description)
3. At that point a User could simply save the News/Event or make changes/additions to the data collected.

Basically, this would let lazy people post on easy mode by simply submitting a link, and the app takes care of the rest.

[lafentres]

I get what you mean now. That makes total sense. I'll start working on this.