mstine / pivotal-speaker-form-automation

Fill Out the Pivotal Speaker Form!

Fill Out the Pivotal Speaker Form!

This Groovy script uses Geb to automate the Chrome browser to fill out the Pivotal speaker form from the contents of a YAML file. It speeds up the process a bit by not forcing you to paste redundant fields for every event at which you speak. It is also capable of managing events for multiple speakers, so if you have a single person that’s managing multiple schedules, you’re in luck.

Dependencies

• You need Java and Groovy installed on your box. e.g. this should work:

  $ groovy -v
  Groovy Version: 2.4.7 JVM: 1.8.0_102 Vendor: Oracle Corporation OS: Mac OS X

• You need to install ChromeDriver for your OS in some known location.

• You need to have set up Okta Push for MFA.

Usage

Before running the script, populate lines 41 and 42:

$("form").username() << "username"
$("form").password() << "********"

…​with your actual Okta username and password. A future enhancement will collect these interactively.

$ groovy -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=/PATH_TO/chromedriver fillSpeakerForm.groovy YAML_FILE

YAML Format

There’s a sample YAML file in speaker_data.yml.

speakers:
  - fullName: Your Name
    title: Your Title
    twitter: Your Twitter Handle // (1)
    linkedIn: Your LinkedIn profile // (2)
    bio: The URL to your bio, or the bio itself
    headshot: The URL to your headshot
    events:
      - name: The name of the event
        publish: (true|false) // (3)
        url: The URL to the event
        city: The location of the event
        date: MMDDYYYY // (4)
        topics: // (5)
          - Spring
          - Cloud
          - DevOps
          - Microservices

1. Omit the @ from your handle.

2. Use the last portion of your public profile URL (e.g. for https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattstine, use mattstine)

3. If true, the form will be filled out for this event. If false, it will be skipped. If you want to use the same file for all of your events, remember to set events to false for future submissions if you don’t want to create duplicates.

4. Omit the / separating the parts of the date.

5. topics is a list of the labels next to the checkboxes in the Topic Expertise section. A current limitation is that the script doesn’t allow for submitting Other as a topic.