Derive SpecialReport ColourScheme

[JamieB-gu]

I don't know what the best way to go about this is. Does it get derived from tags? @oliverlloyd @gtrufitt @SiAdcock.

[gtrufitt]

@rcrphillips How is a special report defined on an article, you did this the other day, right? Is a tag added to the targeting tool or something?

[rcrphillips]

Yep, you have to add a campaign type of report in targeting.gutools.co.uk

This is locked down to a few individuals. In this case the This is Europe tag was given that treatment.

No idea how frontend stores that information though.

[JamieB-gu]

Ok, so presumably the application (frontend, MAPI etc.) has a way to read from that tool?

I think we could solve this using something like the following:

type CampaignType = 'report' | 'otherCampaign';

type Campaign = {
    tagId: string,
    type: CampaignType,
}

const isSpecialReport = (campaigns: Campaign[], tags: Tag[]): boolean =>
    tags.some(tag => campaigns.includes({ tagId: tag.id, type: 'report' })); 

This function could live in the types repo, and the applications just have to pass in the campaign and tag information they have. I don't know what the actual campaign data looks like, but we should be able to tailor this code to fit.

[JamieB-gu]

Coming back to this, I wonder if we're starting to stretch the name of this repo too far? Should we split it into:

• @guardian/editorial-format: which manages the Format type and associated functions to derive it from CAPI data
• @guardian/types: useful data types like Option and their associated functions