• blankbeard

    (@blankbeard)


    I have a calendar import that is scraping from a master Google calendar. There are a hundred or so events each month but they are recurring so the monthly imports are just adding new instances of the existing hundred-ish shows (done this way so when shows are added to or removed from the master Google calendar it is reflected on the website calendar). On the first import, I assigned each show to an author (showrunner) who can edit their shows, each show has a different author so I can limit which shows each author can edit. It is a little bit of madness but it works, however, each month as the new instances are imported I have to go through each of the hundred-ish shows and assign them to the same author as the previous instances. It is maddeningly time-consuming and feels like it can be automated.

    Is there a possibility of creating a code snippet to run each month to change the author of all of the newly imported events to match the author on the earliest event of the same name?

    I hope this makes sense and hope a little more that there is a solution possible. I am happy to dig and research if it is possible, just unsure if it even is.

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  • Thread Starter blankbeard

    (@blankbeard)

    I guess to make it simpler I would just ask if it is possible to make a code snippet that achieves the following.

    Pull a list of all events with the same name;
    If the authors of the events are different:
    Change the author of the events to match the author of the earliest
    instance of that event with the same name.

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