Managing open hours
Thu, 2008-08-07 16:32 — mark
In preliminary planning to move our main library website to Drupal, one of the 'nice to haves' is to be able to manage our open hours either using a Drupal module or in a lighweight external db that we could slurp into one or more Drupal pages. I know there was a discussion of this on drupal4lib in April (original poster's message), but I'd be interested to hear if any libraries are doing anything different four months later...
Of course, we have three campuses, and within our main library have several service points and collections that all have different hours.
TIA,
Mark
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A simple approach
I think that the simplest way to do this would be to:
You could use CCK to create a content type for the pages, but it is probably not needed.
Cary Gordon
The Cherry Hill Company
Simple is better
Thanks for the suggestion Cary. Thinking about a general, normalized data model for library hours that could be instantiated in a module or CCK makes my head hurt, so this simple approach is appealing.
Mark
Highlighting open hours, closed dates
There are a couple of features of our hours display that I'm handling with PHP code that would be nice to move to a module: a way to highlight days when the library will be closed (message on the home page saying "The library will be closed tomorrow/is closed today"), and a way to highlight the current day on the listing of hours (see the sidebar here: http://www.myacpl.org/branches/athens).
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