Allow users to specify unavailable days on calendar

[dan.palmer]

Hey guys,

I’ve been trying to figure out a way for users of my website to elect days they are unavailable so that people who try to book them (through the calendar plugin) can’t request a booking on those days. I’m struggling to figure out a solution, despite searching these forums extensively. I guess Bubble isn’t super well set up for booking systems like that just yet?

Cheers,
Dan.

[brian1]

Bubble isn’t about ready to use “things”. Its a platform, like any other (i mean that in a developer sense).

There are a few ways that you could do this - like having a user choose certain days that are blocked (or times), and having those be a “blocked” day, so you would then check against the list of blocked days/times to see if they are available.

The trick with any software development is to figure out what the user “story” is, and work backwards.

In this case you have 2 (in a simplistic sense):

1. A user can block times/days that a client cannot schedule during.
2. A client can schedule a time/day for an appointment.

What you suddenly realize is that the reason WHY they can’t schedule then, is because those “blocked” times/days are already scheduled, albeit with a “blocked” appointment type.

[Scott]

Compared to other programming languages, Bubble isn’t super well set up to handle booking systems as there are some limitations to it from my viewpoint as a developer. Compared to ready available scheduling solutions, Bubble lacks in features out of the box, but I would say a vast majority of the features can be replicated. Bubble is a more of a tool than a solution and it’s up to the developer to build out that solution. The solution your looking for won’t be found on these forums, but probably on a much more technical website describing the data model used for scheduling. The first place I would probably search is https://stackoverflow.com/.

[dan.palmer]

Hi Brian,

The issue with that is, they’d have to block out their trading hours every single week, as there doesn’t appear to be any way to repeat an event?

[supernaturally]

I’m building out some fairly involved booking features, and there are several strange bugs happening JS-side with the Bubble platform. With time and patience, a lot more of these features will be available with stable integration.

That said, I haven’t encountered any limits to the platform yet for building out booking-based features. @Scott - on stackoverflow.com…great compliment to Bubble forums when building out anything complex’ish.