Automating Event Display with ECA: Freelock’s Solution for Programming Librarian

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Freelock's Advent 2024 series on Drupal automation highlights a solution for Programming Librarian, a platform supporting librarians in planning educational programs. The automation focuses on dynamically displaying three events on the homepage, prioritizing future events while maintaining visibility for past ones. Using the Events, Conditions, and Actions (ECA) module, Freelock created two views — one for up to two upcoming events and another for recent past events. The system fills the homepage event row by selecting events from these views, ensuring a mix of future and past events. This approach allows flexibility to display varying combinations, such as two future and one past event or three past events if no future events are scheduled. The automation showcases ECA’s capabilities in enhancing content display logic for advocacy and educational sites.

Reference: Show a mix of future and past events, Freelock

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