Creating Time Slots

[sniphairmail]

Dear Bubblers please help!!

I am trying to create a scheduling system where each user inputs their availability for each day of the week (e.g. mon 9am - 5pm, tue 12pm - 2pm …)

With this, i would like to generate time slots that enable the user to be booked.

What would be the best way to go about creating this, (I haven’t found a saas option that would be cost-effective)

Please help with any tips or resources at all

All the best

[darius]

@sniphairmail

effective

Hi @sniphairmail

I was wondering whether you have any luck with this?

I have been trying to solve something similar recently - http://doodle.com/ has an API which you may want to consider, although I’m currently confirming with them if they’ll allow me to use this as a “non enterprise” customer.

What is the wider problem that you are trying to solve with this?

[boston85719]

Time Picker without Date

In order to have a time picker that doesn’t also save the actually date and still allows you to do calculations with the time saved in the D.B. after a user chooses the time it is important to set up your D.B. with a Data Type of Time Selectors. This Data Type should have several Data Fields: Interval - this is a number; having this saved is useful for allowing a user to select a particular interval period for their time selection choices; ie: 10 minutes or 20 minutes (I have mine displayed i…

[sniphairmail]

Oh cool, did Doodle reply, i never thought that i would be able to do this with them.

I am trying to create bookable time slots for a marketplace, ideally with 15 min intervals. Bostons solution looks promising though

[sniphairmail]

Hey Boston, this looks great! Thanks for sharing! Im going to try and implement your method. Any chance of sharing an editor view at all?

[boston85719]

Bubble Editor - Basicelements

[sniphairmail]

This helps so much. Thank you Boston!!

[darius]

Hi

Yep, here’s the documenation for their API:
https://api.doodle.com/api/svc-public-api/v1.0/swagger-ui.html

Do you think you will build in bubble directly or leverage an external service like this?

I need to play around with some more, but would love to build in bubble if feasible myself…just seems tricky

[Jici]

I can confirm that it’s possible and tricky ;p
Some calendar plugin may help on that too.

[darius]

Great - are you able to provide any details as to what you built?

I am trying to build something which facilitates interview scheduling across 3 or more different parties together…the added complication is the parties may be across different timezones.

Have you built something like this?

Many thanks in advance!

[Jici]

You can display date and time in a specific timezone or using the user timezone.
In the first case, you should display a warning that say which timezone displayed time is. In the second option, user from a place will see 10-11AM for example, but other user will see 9-10AM because it’s in a different timezone. But both will be in the same timeslot.

Each case is different and like I say it’s tricky. You need to create timeslot, according to open and close business hours and allow user to select which timeslot he is available.

[sniphairmail]

I have managed to implement time slots using Boston’s method. I struggled to implement a time zone function to translate the time of one user to the time of another user: I can do this using simple math but the whole thing gets more complicated when the sessions spill over to the next day. I think I may have to just let the users work it out for now, poor ux though, unless someone has a work around?