So what I’m doing here is sending an email the day before an event someone registered for via a Gravity Forms process I set up. This is kind of an interesting pattern because it moves back and forth from the Gravity Forms API and uses a mix of Events Calendar functions, in addition to basic […]
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H Tags and Auto-Constructing an Anchor Index
Origin Story I got a fairly dense Word document that needed to go online in way that people could more easily navigate. After checking it out, it appeared we had a large number of sections but we were lucky in that they were designated by H tags of various levels. Now I could have gone […]
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Gravity Forms Notification to Google Spreadsheet
The idea that data can flow to different places for different purposes is one of the key concepts I want people to believe in. Different technologies and different interfaces have different affordances depending on what you’re trying to do. In this case, we’ve built some online training for students. As part of that training they […]
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Making an Index Using Javascript
Working with a faculty member we had a rather long page that was originally written in Google Docs. It had many sections that were (mostly) designated by H tags of various denominations. The goal was to and put it on a website quickly build an index of anchor links. I did not wish to do […]
Clean Google Doc Cut/Paste into WordPress Editor
If you cut/paste from a Google Doc into the WordPress WYSIWYG editor you get more than I want. Mainly a bunch of inline CSS that sets the font weight (see below). This is a pain because it’s going to take priority in CSS land and undoing it by hand is a hassle. Some internet wandering […]
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Archiving Slack Channels
Since we’re making channels in Slack via our project creation, it made sense to archive them when the project was completed. In projects (this particular post type) we have a custom field for the start date of the project and one for the end date of the project. Step one is to check on updates […]
Social Work Digital Portfolio – Google Docs Style
Image from page 589 of “Modern magic. : A practical treatise on the art of conjuring.” (1885) flickr photo by Internet Archive Book Images shared with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) Our Social Work program has traditionally done large paper-based student portfolios. They wanted to move to something digital. That led to some conversations about […]
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Auto-Logging Email via Google Script
flickr photo shared by OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) A while back I was logging emails in a Google sheet via IFTTT. I’d add a hashtag and forward it on where a spreadsheet would parse out some stuff from the subject line based on the | character. […]
WordPress for Syllabus Submission
This post is specifically about addressing a syllabus submission problem but it’s worth thinking about more broadly. It should be pretty applicable to any structured data entry problem you have. These are often administrative chores (like this one) but could also be about cataloging grave markers or indexing resources or Collecting the syllabi for their […]
Documentation – Google Doc Drawing Tip
I’ve created documentation in lots of platforms with lots of people over the last 15 years. These attempts tend to fail, or fail to thrive, for a variety of reasons. I can’t address all of the human factors but I can look harder at a few of the mechanical ones. Here are a few of […]