U.S. Government - Team Coverage Dashboard that Populates Using Existing G-Calendar

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title: 'US Government Coverage'

description: 'Documentation on US Government Coverage'

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This guide covers what the US Government Coverage is and how it works.

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- Deployment type: `Ad-hoc`

- Project: [US Government Coverage](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-support-readiness/usgov-coverage)

- Pages: [https://usgov-coverage-0aa7ea.gitlab.io/](https://usgov-coverage-0aa7ea.gitlab.io/)

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## What is it

US Government Coverage is a project that generates GitLab Pages to display coverage information for the US Government Support team.

## How is it generated

Every 4 hours via pipeline schedules, the `bin/generate_pages` script is run, which does the following:

- Reads Support team information via the [Support Team project](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-support-readiness/support-team)

- Removes all non-US Government support engineers from the Support team information

- Creates variables storing the list of people per shift (1st, 2nd, 3rd)

- Fetches Google calendar events for the next 365 days

- Analyzes the events (separating them into variables for later parsing)

- Generates event objects (that will work with the [FullCalendar JS library](https://fullcalendar.io/))

- Updates templated HTML and JS files

The end result are modified files in a `public` folder, which is then deployed via GitLab Pages.

## Common issues and troubleshooting

This is a living section that will have items added to it as needed.

    href: 'https://gitlab.com/gitlab-support-readiness/zendesk-global/users/deletion'

  - name: 'Project'

    href: 'https://gitlab.com/gitlab-support-readiness/zendesk-us-government/users/deletion'

- name: 'US Government Coverage'

  criticality: 'Administrative'

  data_classification: 'Green'

  links:

  - name: 'Handbook'

    href: '/handbook/security/customer-support-operations/gitlab/usgov-coverage'

  - name: 'Project'

    href: 'https://gitlab.com/gitlab-support-readiness/usgov-coverage'