egoodhall/common-hour

A script for setting up and editing the hours calendar for the Bucknell MacDonald Commons

To install and execute the script, make sure you follow the Google Calendar API Quickstart instructions for gaining the required permissions for your calendar, then cd to the root of the repository and run:

npm install
npm run script

config.json should be formatted as follows:

{
  "calendarId": "<your-calendar-id>",
  "defaultTitle": "(Student Name)",
  "descriptionKey": "Default Description - Don't modify",
  "timeZone": "US/Eastern",
  "startDate": "2017-07-15",
  "endDate": "2017-07-17",
  "days": [
    { 
      "name": "monday", 
      "firstShift": 7, 
      "defaultShiftDuration": 1,
      "lastShift": 21,
      "lastShiftDuration": 5 
    },
    {
      "name": "tuesday",
      "firstShift": 7, 
      "defaultShiftDuration": 1,
      "lastShift": 21,
      "lastShiftDuration": 5
    },
    {
      "name": "wednesday",
      "firstShift": 7, 
      "defaultShiftDuration": 1,
      "lastShift": 21,
      "lastShiftDuration": 5
    },
    {
      "name": "thursday",
      "firstShift": 7, 
      "defaultShiftDuration": 1,
      "lastShift": 21,
      "lastShiftDuration": 5
    },
    {
      "name": "friday",
      "firstShift": 7, 
      "defaultShiftDuration": 1,
      "lastShift": 21,
      "lastShiftDuration": 3
    },
    {
      "name": "saturday",
      "firstShift": 9, 
      "defaultShiftDuration": 1,
      "lastShift": 21,
      "lastShiftDuration": 3,
      "lastWorker": "Eric"
    },
    {
      "name": "sunday",
      "firstShift": 9, 
      "defaultShiftDuration": 1,
      "lastShift": 21,
      "lastShiftDuration": 5,
      "lastWorker": "Eric"
    }
  ]
}

Useful Links

• Finding your calendar's id
• Follow part 1 of the Calendar API Quickstart to get a client secret (save it as client_secret.json in the root of the repository)
• Time zone must be formatted as an IANA Time Zone Database name, e.g. "Europe/Zurich"
• instant_events will be edited into the calendar on the create run, while delayed_events will be put in only when signup is run