Create script or solution for assigning people to events

[FredrikAugust]

We now have a list of desired events, but we need a way to assign people to events, and a way to represent that in the database.

For the latter, I believe a similar structure to the Interest collection could be used.

[FredrikAugust]

Also make sure you only assign the people who are actually attending TechTalks. It's better to perform this filtering later, as people might leave/join the event until then.

[blauks]

Couldn't this be done manually? Or is that a waste of time?

[FredrikAugust]

@blauks I believe it would be quite tiresome with some hundred participants who all have three desired events, but if you can think of a smart way to do this then please share.

[FredrikAugust]

We would also need to respect the "first come, first serve" principle. People who registered an interest for an event first should be assigned to that event.

[blauks]

Now that you put it that way, we could probably use a script yep. If all desired event objects also contain the timestamp of when the user sent the request, we could easily just go through all of them with a simple script.

[FredrikAugust]

You can do that without any extra code;

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5125521/uses-for-mongodb-objectid-creation-time