Events Integration with McGill WMS Channels
- Tim Wilfong, Mr.
What is it?
WMS Channels is the event advertising feature on the McGill Website. In order to save time for staff and reduce the risk of human error, the CCR team and IT developed an integration between the myInvolvement platform and Channels so that public events created in myInvolvement will automatically be pushed to the McGill website.
Which events get pushed from myInvolvement to McGill WMS?
Any event page in myInvolvement that’s either viewable to the public or to authenticated McGill users will automatically create a Channels Event page. The Channels Event will automatically receive several categories and tags, including the unit name and the topic categories that are available in myInvolvement. Users may also add additional, free-text tags in myInvolvement which will become tags for the Channels Event. If a user edits event details in myInvolvement, the updated information will be pushed to the Channels Event page.
→ Note that new and updated events are pushed from myInvolvement to Channels overnight.
What WMS categories will your events get?
Most event categories in myInvolvement have a corresponding Channels category, which will be assigned automatically. In addition, events are given your unit's Channels Category if one exists. The mapping of myInvolvement metadata to WMS categories is hard-coded; if you have specific category needs that are not being made automatically through this integration, please contact us at myinvolvement@mcgill.ca.
What WMS tags will your events get?
The auto-generated Channels events will automatically receive tags for:
- Any free-text tags included on the bottom of the myInvolvement event creation page
- The myInvolvement organization name
- A SKILLS21 stream (if applicable)
- Some additional myInvolvement categories that did not correspond to existing Channels categories