Under the hood, both of these applications use the Activity/Class/Session Content Types and the YMCA Sync module to import content from an external API. These pieces together comprise the “Program Event Framework” which is highlighted in a case study on drupal.org.
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Schedules
The distribution provides two separate applications for managing schedules at your YMCA.
1 - Activity Finder
Provides an interactive tool to help members find and book activities.
Activity Finder combines data from the Activity, Class, and Session content types into an interactive tool that can be used with Paragraphs or Layout Builder pages.
Out-of-the-box, YMCA Website Services’s Activity Finder integrates with Daxko, ActiveNet, and Personify. Configuring these integrations is mostly user-friendly, but often is supported by a partner development team. Any other CRM will require custom developer work.
See the Program Event Framework developer docs for a full list of integrations.
Additional topics
Allowing UTM codes in Activity Finder
UTM codes can be used to track the effectiveness of marketing campaigns. Activity Finder uses query strings as filters, but as of version 4.2.0 it will also maintain UTM codes in the URL.
Activity Finder begins with a number of preset arguments, and those can be modified at Admin > YMCA Website Services > Settings > Activity Finder Settings (/admin/openy/settings/activity-finder) in the Allowed Query Arguments field.
Once those settings are saved, you can visit an Activity Finder page with UTM codes attached, for example:
https://example.com/activity_finder?step=results&selectedAges=24&selectedLocations=1541437&selectedActivities=2786027,2786083&utm_source=promotional_member&utm_medium=email&utm_content=button_register_now&utm_campaign=fall_group_swim_lessons_2021
and see that the codes are maintained as the filters are changed.
2 - Group Schedules
Displays daily group exercise classes with filters and a PDF download.
Sometimes called “Group Exercise” or “Group Schedules”, the Repeat Schedules block provides a similar view to Activity Finder, but focused more on recurring, often drop-in classes. You can see an example of this on our sandbox site.
Developers can find more information in
ynorth-project/openy_repeat and
Program Event Framework.
Using Group Schedules
- Repeat Schedules Paragraph
- Using Repeat Schedules in Layout Builder is not yet supported.
3 - Simple Schedules
The “PEF Schedules” module allows Ys to create and manage schedules with a simple, calendar-based view.
See PEF Schedules for installation instructions.
User instructions are coming soon.