A daily post to #Announcement channel of the days' events

[Chalta]

Perhaps the target channel would be configurable, depending on where users would want to see this information. (Perhaps some users would prefer #general or #resources or #bookings or #somethingelse.)

Sort by time (chronological) or subgroup by venue?

Possible format:

Here's the events happening at [Church Name] today!

Women's Bible Study
Room 105 (1300-1430)
resources.planningcenter.com/eventIDurl

Thursday Night Basketball
Gymnatorium A (1800-2230)
resources.planningcenter.com/eventID2url

[pastorhudson]

I love this idea! Long term I'd like to see sms support and integrated sms lists so this would be fantastic to txt out as well!

[pastorhudson]

We could roll the birthday's #15 into this same feature.

[Chalta]

Scheduled announcements can be placed here:
https://github.com/pastorhudson/pcobot/blob/master/plugins/pco/announcements.py

Perhaps call the related functions directly when making an announcement? Semi-pseudo-code.

@periodic(hour='10', minute='0', day_of_week="wed")
def announce_setlist(self):
    pco_setlist_lookup(self, message, sunday)

Now how to set target channel for self.say on a called function?

[pastorhudson]

Look at the will.plugins.admin.keepalive.py
There is a ping command that is called as a webhook from /ping. It has no channel info and doesn't receive or pass a message object in the say command. I bet if you just don't take or give message object it will post in default channel. Default channel can then be set to announcements.

@route("/ping")
    def ping(self):
        self.say("Someone pinged me!")
        return "PONG"

[Chalta]

I have a proof-of-concept working for calling a WillPlugin function from within another WillPlugin.

#55

Now we just need to create the Resources functions that will return events.

[pastorhudson]

Do you have any ideas how this could be turned on and off through slack? A guiding principle for this project is that we need to be able to control things through slack. So what if I want to turn off birthday notifications? Or turn on setlist?