Imported group region information is not imported #1145
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Nicky, I'm having some difficulty understanding the steps you took as described. Would you mind posted some screenshots that highlight or circle the affected areas of your site so I'm sure I'm understanding what happened? i.e. When you mention the "group section" do you mean the Group/Location column of the meetings table? You mentioned the "list of regions for a particular district", are you referring to the listing on the left side of an individual meeting page? Also, can you include the CSV file you attempted to import? Thank you! |
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Tim: yes, that is correct. From memory, I seem to remember that they are all auto created upon a fresh new import. |
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Well, now that Covid is less prevalent, it happens a lot at our side when temporarily inactive meetings pick back up in person in another region. I think this past month happened 3 times. I don't always instantly check my lists of cities/towns where meetings happen in a particular district, but I have now added some automated warnings when that scenario happens so I don't forget. In general, you are right, that list would change only when the last meeting leaves a town. Or gets disbanded. Our phone line volunteers look at the District Region lists as well for newcomers, to see if there is a meeting in their town, even before they search the website. My main worry here is not that I want the TSML to automate things. It is that I do not have a good understanding of how the content of Regions and Districts is created. I seem to remember that on the very first import both tables are auto filled. Is that correct? How you arrange things in the backend of the plugin is not my business. You may need the two databases/tables with regions and districts for certain features in the plugin. That is fine. But when you allow your users to create an import sheet, then the information they put in it, should be imported as is. It may not be top of mind for many, but I do remember several members sighing with relief when they found out that it is possible (for me at least) to remove certain meeting regions from their district list, because they had to keep explaining to old and new members that the region had not had a meeting for a long time. If you can tell me the workflow that works well for this, then I know how to work with my data. Thanks for your consideration! |
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Hi @OSAwebsite if I delete meetings for a region I see that the region persists in the regions dropdown, which is definitely a bug, we'll make a ticket to fix that. Are there other issues? If so, could you walk us through the specific steps to reproduce? Thanks |
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Hi all who are following this topic, First off, I understand that this is an issue that is hard to follow. Test 1 Test 2 The result is a duplicate meeting in an otherwise full list. The one where I changed the region now has 2 listings. One with Edgmondville and one with Clinton. When I go to the details page, both listings do not show a region name. It just says 'Region'. I have not seen this happen before. Test 4 Test 5 I now notice that I only have 2 meetings in my list. Somewhere along the line all others were deleted... with only 3 in thrash. I saw this happen twice in this sequence, and always noticed too late when all were deleted. Test 6: The thing I noticed half way through is this: Is it possible that a region that is not recognised by Google can block the update of some of the other information in the Importsheet? If that is the case, it seems to me this should throw a visible error. It seems unlikely to me, because the full address was found without any issues. The Region looks like an additional field of the plugin, rather than something that is linked with Google? I don't know. I just know that I did these tests 3 times. The first time a lot of errors happened. The second time there was a new one when the region was not displayed and I lost listings without having thrashed them myself. The third time when I wanted to demonstrate this and pinpoint where it happened, everything went as expected. By then, of course, all of the three different regions I used were in the Regions database. So it seems that there is something there that causes the confusion. I am stopping the testing now... If you need me to do other testing, let me know. |
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Contact Details
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Website With Issue
al-anon.alateen.on.ca
What happened?
I put this in as a bug, because I feel this is unexpected behaviour, or at least, should be described in the Import information section of the tool.
Here is what happened:
I made a change to a meeting, that impacted information present in the group section of the website listing of meetings.
The impact was on the list of regions for a particular district. To save myself the trouble of having to go through the list of meetings and correct the regions where meetings are held, I first deleted all meeting for that district.
I then performed an import, with no deleting of listings. The import csv showed the new list of regions for all meetings in that district. However, the region list was not updated correctly after re-importing all meetings of this district.
I experimented with this unexpected result and found out that the import will ONLY work if I first remove the incorrect region from the region table, add the new region to it and then perform an import with no delete (I had, after all, deleted all meetings for the affected district before performing the import).
What is the best way to update this kind of information. Should I have corrected the regions first, or should I have chose the option to delete the meetings that are present in the csv? Or is it reasonable to expect the import to add new regions automatically? And accept the information in the import, as it has been set out?
I hope this makes sense. I would expect that, at all times, an import is reflected in the resulting web listings. That is, after all, why we perform an import.
I now feel insecure that the list of regions per district is correct for my entire list of meetings. Which means, I will be inclined to perform a re-import of the entire list of over 300 meetings in my area.
Thanks for considering this topic.
Nicky
Yours in service
What browsers are you seeing the problem on?
Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge
Relevant log output/errors
No response
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