Integrate library closures/special hours with Google My Business

[Jane Sandberg]

Currently, we have to enter all our special hours, holiday closures, summer hours, breaks, etc. in several different places: Facebook, our Google My Business account, in the closed date editor in Evergreen, the Org Unit hours interface, etc.

It would be great if some of that could happen automatically. It seems like a good start might be to have a closure in Evergreen cause a call to change the specialhours property in the Google My Business API (https://developers.google.com/my-business/reference/rest/v3/accounts.locations#specialhours). And changes to the OU's hours of operations send a call that changes the businesshours property (https://developers.google.com/my-business/reference/rest/v3/accounts.locations#businesshours).

[Terran McCanna (tmccanna)]

Interesting idea - how would you envision that working with multiple locations that all have different closed dates?

[Jane Sandberg (sandbergja)]

That's a good question, Terran. It seems like there would need to be a mapping between specific OUs and specific Google My Business Locations,

[Jane Sandberg (sandbergja)]

I wonder if this might be a good way to start on this:

* Wait for bug 1860703 to be merged
* Set ClosedDates.pm to trigger an event when somebody adds a new closure
* Add a sample event definition and template to the seed data.

And then each library that wanted to participate could clone the sample event definition, set the owning library correctly, and add their library's Google My Business API credentials to the template.

It wouldn't include the hours of operation changes, but it would be a start!