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Dynamic Segments in Open Event Frontend

Post author:utkarshnath
Post published:July 18, 2017
Post category:FOSSASIA Open Event
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In the Open Event Frontend project we have a page where we show all types of events. We have classified events into six classes like live, draft, past etc. Now each event type should have it’s own page describing it. What should we do now? Make six different routes corresponding to each class of event? Isn’t that too cumbersome. Is there any other method to do it?

Dynamic segment is the answer to the above question. Dynamic segment is that segment of the path for a route that will change based on content of the page. Dynamic segments are frequently used in Open Event Frontend.

One such use is in /admin/events. Here we have button for different categories of events. We do not make separate routes for each of them, instead we use dynamic segments. We’ll have a single route and we will change the data in the route corresponding to the tab chosen.

Lets now add dynamic segments to /admin/events. First of all we’ll add the following code snippet in router.js.

this.route(‘events’, function() {
     this.route(‘list’, { path: ‘/:events_status’ });
     this.route(‘import’);
   });

Here : signifies the presence of dynamic segment and it is followed by an identifier. It’s the identifier by which the route matches the corresponding model to show.

Now as our route would show data depending upon the tab selected, we must change the title of page depending upon the same. For this we add the following code snippet in admin/events/list.js. Here we set the title of the page using titleToken() function and access the dynamic portion of url using params.events_status

export default Route.extend({
titleToken() {
   switch (this.get(‘params.events_status’)) {
     case ‘live’:
       return this.l10n.t(‘Live’);
     case ‘draft’:
       return this.l10n.t(‘Draft’);
     case ‘past’:
       return this.l10n.t(‘Past’);
     case ‘deleted’:
       return this.l10n.t(‘Deleted’);
   }
},
model(params) {
   this.set(‘params’, params);
   return [{
   // Events data
   }];
}
});

We’ll now link the tabs template/admin/events to the corresponding models using Link-to the helper.Here we have linked ‘Live’, ‘Draft’, ‘Past’, ‘Deleted’ buttons to dynamic segments. Let’s understand how it works.Let’s take example of Live button.Live button is linked to admin/events/list and this list is replaced by ‘live’. So our final route becomes admin/events/live.

<div class=“ui grid stackable”>
<div class=“row”>
   <div class=“sixteen wide column”>
     {{#tabbed-navigation isNonPointing=true}}
       {{#link-to ‘admin.events.index’ class=’item’}}
         {{t ‘All Events’}}
       {{/link-to}}
       {{#link-to ‘admin.events.list’ ‘live’ class=’item’}}
         {{t ‘All Live’}}
       {{/link-to}}
       {{#link-to ‘admin.events.list’ ‘draft’ class=’item’}}
         {{t ‘All Draft’}}
       {{/link-to}}
       {{#link-to ‘admin.events.list’ ‘past’ class=’item’}}
         {{t ‘All Past’}}
       {{/link-to}}
       {{#link-to ‘admin.events.list’ ‘deleted’ class=’item’}}
         {{t ‘All Deleted’}}
       {{/link-to}}
       {{#link-to ‘admin.events.import’ class=’item’}}
         {{t ‘Import’}}
       {{/link-to}}
     {{/tabbed-navigation}}
   </div>
</div>
<div class=“row”>
   {{outlet}}
</div>
</div>

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Adding Messaging Route in Ember.js for Admin UI of Open Event Frontend

Post author:utkarshnath
Post published:July 17, 2017
Post category:FOSSASIA Open Event
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In this blog post I am explaining how we implement a messages page for admins to keep track of all types of system messages sent to users in the Open Event Frontend. The page shows the types of messages sent out to various users at one place and as well as additional details. It offers configuration options to control which messages get sent out as emails or notifications or both. And, the page shows when and what message should be sent via notification or mail.
To create the messages page we’ll run the following command

ember generate route admin/messages

This will create

This command will also add this.route(‘messages’); to router.js. As admin is the parent route for messages, messages will be nested inside admin in router.js

this.route(‘admin’, function(){
this.route(‘messages’);
});

Let’s now understand the content of each of above files.

Messages.js

In admin/messages.js we have used titletoken helper to set the title of the tab. Here we have created the message model and added attribute like recipient, trigger, emailMessage, notificationMessage, options and sentAt. We have returned this model from the js file to template.

import Ember from ’ember’;
const { Route } = Ember;
export default Route.extend({
titleToken() {
   return this.l10n.t(‘Messages’);
},
model() {
   return [{
     recipient: [
       {
         name: ‘Organizer’
       },
       {
         name: ‘Speaker’
       }
     ],
     trigger      : ‘Title1’,
     emailMessage : {
       subject : ‘Email subject1’,
       message : ‘Hi, the schedule for session1 has been changed’
     },
     notificationMessage: {
       subject : ‘Notification subject1’,
       message : ‘Hi, the schedule for session1 has been changed’
     },
     option: {
       mail         : true,
       notification : false,
       userControl : true
     },
     sentAt: new Date()
   }];
}
});

Messages.hbs

In template we have created a table and added classes like stackable and compact. Stackable class makes the table responsive and stacks all the rows for devices with smaller screen size. Compact class helps to show more number of rows at a time.

Then in the template we iterate through the model using a loop. Here we have used other semantic-ui elements like ui ordered list , ui header, ui-checkbox inside the table. For options column we have three attributes denoting how the admin wants to send the message to the user. Here we have grouped three fields using the class grouped fields .In each field we have used semantic’s ui-checkbox .In check-box we are mutating values on click by using mut helper.

<div class=“grouped fields”>
<div class=“field”>
   {{ui-checkbox checked=message.option.mail
                 label=(t ‘Mail’)
                 onChange=(action (mut message.option.mail))}}
</div>
<div class=“field”>
   {{ui-checkbox checked=message.option.notification
                 label=(t ‘Notification’)
               onChange=(action (mut message.option.notification))}}
</div>

<div class=“field”>
   {{ui-checkbox checked=message.option.userControl
                label=(t ‘User Control’)
               onChange=(action (mut message.option.userControl))}}
</div>
</div>

We are getting date object from js and to convert it into human readable format we have used moment like {{moment-format message.sentAt ‘dddd, DD MMMM YYYY’}}

Messages-test.js

import { test } from ’ember-qunit’;
import moduleFor from ‘open-event-frontend/tests/helpers/unit-helper’;

moduleFor(‘route:admin/messages’, ‘Unit | Route | admin/messages’, []);

test(‘it exists’, function(assert) {
let route = this.subject();
assert.ok(route);
});

Using this we can test the existence of our route. These tests are run using the command ember t.

Our message page is ready now. The admin can have a check at all the messages sent to users.

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Creating nested routes in Open Event Front-end and Navigating them with Tabs via semantic UI – Ember Integration

Post author:CosmicCoder96
Post published:June 5, 2017
Post category:FOSSASIA Open Event
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Semantic UI is a modern development framework which helps build responsive and aesthetically beautiful layouts. While it is a really powerful framework in itself, it additionally offers seamless integrations with some of the other open source frameworks including ember js.

Open Event Front-end is a project of FOSSASIA organisation, which was created with the aim of decoupling the front end and the back end for the open event orga server. It is primarily based on ember JS and uses semantic UI for it’s UI.

Here we will be making a nested route /events/ with /events/live/, events/draft, events/past , events/import as it’s subroutes.

To get started with it, we simply use the ember CLI to generate the routes

$ ember generate route events

Then we go on to generate the successive sub routes as follows

$ ember generate route events/live
$ ember generate route events/past
$ ember generate route events/draft
$ ember generate route events/import

The router.js file should be looking like this now.

this.route('events', function() {
    this.route('live');
    this.route('draft');
    this.route('past');
    this.route('import');
  });

This means that our routes and sub routes are in place. Since we used the ember CLI to generate these routes, the template files for them would have generated automatically. Now these routes exist and we need to write the data in the templates of these routes which will get displayed to the end user.

Since the routes are nested, the content of the parent route can be made available to all the children routes via the outlet in ember js.

Next, we go to the template file of events/ route which is at templates/events.hbs And write the following code to create a menu and use ember integration of semantic UI link-to to link the tabs of the menu with the corresponding correct route. It will take care of selecting the appropriate data for the corresponding route and display it in the correct tab via the outlet

<.div class="row">
  <.div class="sixteen wide column">
    <.div class="ui fluid pointing secondary menu">
      {{#link-to 'events.live' class='item'}}
        {{t 'Live'}}
      {{/link-to}}
      {{#link-to 'events.draft' class='item'}}
        {{t 'Draft'}}
      {{/link-to}}
      {{#link-to 'events.past' class='item'}}
        {{t 'Past'}}
      {{/link-to}}
      {{#link-to 'events.import' class='item'}}
        {{t 'Import'}}
      {{/link-to}}
    <./div>
  <./div>
<./div>
<.div class="ui segment">
  {{outlet}}
<./div>

So finally, we start filling in the data for each of these routes. Let’s fill some dummy data at templates/events/live.hbs

<.div class="row">
  <.div class="sixteen wide column">
    <.table class="ui tablet stackable very basic table">
      <.thead>
        <.tr>
          <.th>{{t 'Name'}}<./th>
          <.th>{{t 'Date'}}<./th>
          <.th>{{t 'Roles'}}<./th>
          <.th>{{t 'Sessions'}}<./th>
          <.th>{{t 'Speakers'}}<./th>
          <.th>{{t 'Tickets'}}<./th>
          <.th>{{t 'Public URL'}}<./th>
          <.th><./th>
        <./tr>
      <./thead>
      <.tbody>
        <.tr>
          <.td>
            <.div class="ui header weight-400">
              <.img src="http://placehold.it/200x200" alt="Event logo" class="ui image">
              Sample Event
            <./div>
          <./td>
          <.td>
            March 18, 2016 - 09:30 AM
            <.br>(to)<.br>
            March 20, 2016 - 05:30 PM
          <./td>
          <.td>
            <.div class="ui ordered list">
              <.div class="item">sample@gmail.com ({{t 'Organizer'}})<./div>
              <.div class="item">sample2@gmail.com ({{t 'Manager'}})<./div>
            <./div>
          <./td>
          <.td>
            <.div class="ui list">
              <.div class="item">{{t 'Drafts'}}: 0<./div>
              <.div class="item">{{t 'Submitted'}}: 0<./div>
              <.div class="item">{{t 'Accepted'}}: 0<./div>
              <.div class="item">{{t 'Confirmed'}}: 0<./div>
              <.div class="item">{{t 'Pending'}}: 0<./div>
              <.div class="item">{{t 'Rejected'}}: 0<./div>
            <./div>
          <./td>
          <.td>
            2
          <./td>
          <.td>
            <.div class="ui bulleted list">
              <.div class="item">{{t 'Premium'}} (12/100)<./div>
              <.div class="item">{{t 'VIP'}} (10/15)<./div>
              <.div class="item">{{t 'Normal'}} (100/200)<./div>
              <.div class="item">{{t 'Free'}} (100/500)<./div>
            <./div>
          <./td>
          <.td>
            <.div class="ui link list">
              <.a class="item" target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="http://nextgen.eventyay.com/e/ecc2001a">
                http://nextgen.eventyay.com/e/ecc2001a
              <./a>
            <./div>
          <./td>
          <.td class="center aligned">
            <.div class="ui vertical compact basic buttons">
              {{#ui-popup content=(t 'Edit event details') class='ui icon button'}}
                <.i class="edit icon"><./i>
              {{/ui-popup}}
              {{#ui-popup content=(t 'View event details') class='ui icon button'}}
                <.i class="unhide icon"><./i>
              {{/ui-popup}}
              {{#ui-popup content=(t 'Delete event') class='ui icon button'}}
                <.i class="trash outline icon"><./i>
              {{/ui-popup}}
            <./div>
          <./td>
        <./tr>
      <./tbody>
    <./table>
  <./div>
<./div>

Similarly we can fill the required data for each of the routes.And this is it, our nested route is ready. Here is a screenshot what you might expect.

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