@seann good point, I could just put the collections directly in the module rather than the config, that would do it. @parnic suggested using profile switcher, or at least there may be functionality to grab. I should be able to take it from here – pretty simple. The most time-consuming part will be creating the collection of collections.

Is it possible to have conditional statements in the config? For example, for MMM-Unsplash, to have separate image collections for time of day, season, etc.?

So I now get the following table:

Elementary Lunch
Entree “Bold” Cheese Pizza
Entree “Bold” Pepperoni Pizza
Vegetable Parmesan Butternut Gratin
Vegetable Seasoned Green Beans
Elementary Alternative
Entree Chef Salad
Entree Bologna & Cheese Sandwich

The foodItemType in the first column and the foodItemName in the second column are siblings in the data array.

I’d like turn the first occurrence of foodItemType into a category so the table looks like this (ignore the spacing hyphens):

Elementary Lunch
Entree “Bold” Cheese Pizza
--------------“Bold” Pepperoni Pizza
Vegetable Parmesan Butternut Gratin
-------------------Seasoned Green Beans
Elementary Alternative
Entree Chef Salad
-------------Bologna & Cheese Sandwich

Here’s the current loop that creates the table. Any help would be appreciated.

        // Iterate through the cafeteria lines for the school
        for (var j = 0; j < this.results[i].menuSchedules[0].menuBlocks[0].cafeteriaLineList.data.length; j++) {

          if (this.results[i].menuSchedules[0].menuBlocks[0].cafeteriaLineList.data[j].name !== 'Elmwood Vegetarian Hot Entree') {

            // Set up header row with the cafeteria line name
            cafeteriaLineRow = document.createElement("tr");

            cafeteriaLineName = document.createElement("td");
            cafeteriaLineName.innerHTML = this.results[i].menuSchedules[0].menuBlocks[0].cafeteriaLineList.data[j].name.replace("Elmwood Elementary", "Elementary Lunch").replace("Elmwood Alternative", "Elementary Alternative");
            cafeteriaLineRow.appendChild(cafeteriaLineName);
            wrapper.appendChild(cafeteriaLineRow);

            // Iterate through the menu items for the cafeteria line
            for (var k = 0; k < this.results[i].menuSchedules[0].menuBlocks[0].cafeteriaLineList.data[j].foodItemList.data.length; k++) {

              if (this.results[i].menuSchedules[0].menuBlocks[0].cafeteriaLineList.data[j].foodItemList.data[k].item_Name !== 'Choice Of:') {

                foodItemTypeRow = documen t.createElement("tr");

                foodItemType = document.createElement("td");
                foodItemType.innerHTML = this.results[i].menuSchedules[0].menuBlocks[0].cafeteriaLineList.data[j].foodItemList.data[k].item_Type;

                foodItemName = document.createElement("td");
                foodItemName.innerHTML = this.results[i].menuSchedules[0].menuBlocks[0].cafeteriaLineList.data[j].foodItemList.data[k].item_Name;

                foodItemTypeRow.appendChild(foodItemType);
                wrapper.appendChild(foodItemTypeRow);
                foodItemTypeRow.appendChild(foodItemName);
                wrapper.appendChild(foodItemTypeRow);
              }
            }
          }
        }

MAJOR EDIT, MAJOR DUMMIE: helps if you append the rows to the table… Success! Now for some CSS.

@cowboysdude I edited my earlier post… minor detail about it being the weekend and not being able to pull lunch data for a day with no school. Now just having getting the data to show up in the table…

It will display the “loading” message, but then it’s blank when this.loaded = true. I outputted the innerHTML values to console and they’re all there. Not sure why they won’t show up in the DOM.

  getDom: function() {
    // Set up the local wrapper
    var wrapper = null;

    // If we have some data to display then build the results table
    if (this.loaded) {
      wrapper = document.createElement("table");

      // Iterate through the schools
      for (var i = 0; i < this.results.length; i++) {

        // Set up header row with the school name
        schoolRow = document.createElement("tr");

        schoolName = document.createElement("td");
        schoolName.innerHTML = this.results[i].physicalLocation.name;

        schoolRow.appendChild(schoolName);

        // Iterate through the cafeteria lines for the school
        for (var j = 0; j < this.results[i].menuSchedules[0].menuBlocks[0].cafeteriaLineList.data.length; j++) {

          // Set up header row with the cafeteria line name
          cafeteriaLineRow = document.createElement("tr");

          cafeteriaLineName = document.createElement("td");
          cafeteriaLineName.innerHTML = this.results[i].menuSchedules[0].menuBlocks[0].cafeteriaLineList.data[j].name;

          cafeteriaLineRow.appendChild(cafeteriaLineName);

          // Iterate through the menu items for the cafeteria line
          for (var k = 0; k < this.results[i].menuSchedules[0].menuBlocks[0].cafeteriaLineList.data[j].foodItemList.data.length; k++) {

            foodItemRow = document.createElement("tr");

            foodItemType = document.createElement("td");
            foodItemType.innerHTML = this.results[i].menuSchedules[0].menuBlocks[0].cafeteriaLineList.data[j].foodItemList.data[k].item_Type;

            foodItemName = document.createElement("td");
            foodItemName.innerHTML = this.results[i].menuSchedules[0].menuBlocks[0].cafeteriaLineList.data[j].foodItemList.data[k].item_Name;

            foodItemRow.appendChild(foodItemType);
            foodItemRow.appendChild(foodItemName);
          }
        }
      }
    }

    else {
      // Otherwise lets just use a simple div
      wrapper = document.createElement('div');
      wrapper.innerHTML = 'Loading menu data...';
    }

    return wrapper;
  },

But now I seem to have gotten myself into a pickle. I tried expanding the functionality to add a date range and multiple schools and, of course, I broke it. It’s doing the same thing as before where the ‘cafeteriaLineList’ property is stripped out of the helper results…

EDIT:
LOL, it’s the weekend and I had it pulling just for today, Sunday. Of course there’s no data. Dumb da dumb dumb…

.@cowboysdude was exceptionally helpful last night.

I’m trying to develop a module to get today’s school lunch menu options from my kids’ school. The district uses a service provided by mealviewer.com. The API is available at https://api.mealviewer.com/api/v4/school/[schoolname]/[date range start MM-DD-YYYY]/[date range end MM-DD-YYYY]/. To keep it simple I’m only pulling the current day so the start and end date values are the same.

Here’s an example: https://api.mealviewer.com/api/v4/school/ElmwoodElementary/02-15-2019/02-15-2019/

You can see that there is a TON of XML data returned. I’m only interested in the [CafeteriaLine] nodes and each of their respective [FoodItem] nodes and then the respective [Item_Type] and [Item_Name] for each [FoodItem].

I’m able to send an HTTP request and get (some) data but, unfortunately, most of the nonsense is returned and I don’t see the menu information. It’s like a big chunk out of the middle of the XML data is missing, whether I dump it out to the log before or after parsing it to JSON.

Any thoughts?