20260914-0336-iaa-transportation-2026-exhibitors Catalogue the IAA Transportation 2026 exhibitor directory

• status: completed
• createdAt: 2026-09-14 03:36
• approvedAt: 2026-09-14 03:36
• relatedTask: 20260914-0332-iaa-transportation-2026-exhibitors

Context

• www.iaa-transportation.com/en/visitors/iaa-transportation/exhibitor-directory is a landing page only; it forwards to the SPA at exhibitors.iaa-transportation.com.
• That SPA is Corussoft EventGuide (branding.js -> configuration.topicName = 2024_iaa_transportation). Its backend is https://live.messebackend.aws.corussoft.de, reached as POST /webservice/search and POST /webservice/companydetails with the public sotAccessToken sent as the beConnectionToken header.
• search with filterlist=entity_orga returns 1366 exhibitors; filterlist=entity_prod returns 92 registered products. companydetails adds website, e-mail, phone, address and the full profile text per exhibitor.
• Retrieved 2026-09-14: 1366 exhibitor detail records, 1169 of which carry a website URL and 724 a profile text. Total profile text is ~820 000 characters, so the roster cannot sit on one page.
• Research pages live in bizplan/research/{market,industry,engineering}/ with kind: report (docs/documentation-standard.md §1). bizplan/research/vendors/ is reserved for the four YBO product categories (PDM, gateway, switch, keypad), which this show roster does not map onto, so it belongs under market/.

Proposal

New directory bizplan/research/market/iaa-transportation-2026/:

File	kind	Content
index.md	index	Scope paragraph plus the document table
overview.md	report	Counts, country / hall / product-group distributions, the YBO-relevance shortlist, retrieval method and evidence date
exhibitors-hall-<n>.md (12 files)	report	One page per hall (11, 12, 13, 14-15, 19-20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, open-air), exhibitors A-Z with country, city, stand, website and profile
products.md	report	The 92 registered product entries grouped by exhibitor

Splitting by hall keeps the largest page near 215 entries and matches how the roster is used on site. Profiles are truncated to roughly 300 characters; the untruncated text stays in the CSV archive.

Raw exports archived as bizplan/research/data/iaa-transportation-2026/exhibitors.csv and products.csv, with manifest.csv and SHA256SUMS alongside them.

bizplan/research/market/index.md gains one row linking the new directory.

Risks

• The directory is live and still filling up; the 92 product entries in particular will grow. The page states its evidence date so later readings are comparable.
• Profile text is exhibitor-supplied marketing copy, not verified fact. The pages say so.
• Volume: about 16 new files and roughly 400 KB of Markdown. Build time on the VitePress site grows slightly; docs:build is the check.

Scope

16 new files, 1 edited index, plus task, plan and changelog records.

Alternatives

• One single roster page: simplest diff, but a 1366-row page renders poorly and dominates search.
• Split A-Z instead of by hall: equivalent size, but loses the on-site walking order, and local search already covers name lookup.
• Archive the CSV only and skip the Markdown roster: rejected, the owner asked for every exhibitor's website and profile on the site.

Annotations

Owner approved writing the catalogue up front on 2026-09-14, explicitly including every exhibitor's website and profile.

Delivered 2026-09-14: 15 Markdown pages (index, overview, 12 hall rosters, products), the CSV and script archive, and index rows in bizplan/research/market/index.md and bizplan/research/index.md. bun run docs:lint reports 0 findings, bun run docs:build passes, git diff --check is clean. No commit or push.