Pling-o-matic - Get uploading

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Here's the two simple steps to ensure your data is readable by the pling-o-matic.

1. Upload your Data in a good format

Information about 4 or 5 activities in a single description can be difficult to understand for humans - it's practically impossible for the pling-o-matic! Try to upload each activity or service an organisaiton provides seperately for example:-

Brighton Tennis Club provides classes for Junior tennis enthusiasts on Thursday evenings between 7pm and 11pm.

The pling-o-matic can also generate plings from records that include details of the service's availability in the XML you've uploaded, for example:- 

<Availability Refines='DC.Coverage'>
<StartDateTime>2010-01-15T00:00:00</StartDateTime>
<EndDateTime>2010-02-26T00:00:00</EndDateTime>
<Period Day='Friday'>
<StartTime>15:15:00</StartTime>
<EndTime>16:30:00</EndTime>
</Period>
<Details>Friday</Details>
</Availability>

These are the gold standard data formats. Luckily the pling-o-matic is a bit cleverer than that and can also generate plings from some other formats, to see a full list check out this page

2. Tag the records with Postive Activity

The pling-o-matic only searches for records that have been tagged with `Positive Activity`, make sure the records you'd like converted to plings are tagged with this category.

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