[Tips] Let Users setup their daily availabilities

mauraduquette · 2020-06-19T00:55:04.581Z

Awesome! Thanks again

Boost · 2020-06-22T04:16:52.653Z

Hey @ambroisedlg, thanks for the post! I’m doing what you’re using temporarily, but it seems a bit problematic when it gets to 12am of the next day.

ambroisedlg · 2020-06-22T06:33:40.640Z

@Boost what is the problem exactly?

Boost · 2020-06-22T21:43:56.757Z

How would you set up the end time, if it overlaps at 12am of the next day?

ambroisedlg · 2020-06-22T22:55:04.205Z

@Boost do you mean if the User is available from say monday 8pm to tuesday 2am for example? That’s a good point. With that current configuration the User would have to pick 11:59pm for monday’s closing hour and tuesday 12:00am for tuesday’s opening hour so there is no interruption on his calendar

Boost · 2020-07-06T06:53:34.401Z

Just curious @ambroisedlg, how would you set it up if someone wanted to create multiple chunks of time within a day? (So that users can take breaks)

For ex. Monday 8am-11am, 1pm-5pm, etc

Edit: I guess that part would be easy, the hard part is allowing users to book out certain chunks of time, while taking that out of the available times.

I tried using the plugin you recommended, but from I remember, there were some limitations on date ranges and filtering out times, since it only had a minimum and maximum date

ambroisedlg · 2020-07-06T08:34:29.427Z

Boost:

the hard part is allowing users to book out certain chunks of time, while taking that out of the available times.

@Boost One way to do it is to create an Event from 11am to 1pm for example. In the user’s calendar, do a search for Events overlapping with the timeslot. If the count >0, make the time slot not clickable, therefore not bookable

dantidmas88 · 2020-11-15T11:52:00.777Z

@ambroisedlg thanks for this tip! Works really well and a simple way to handle availability. You rock!

janz28 · 2020-12-07T20:32:52.358Z

Hi!

I am currently building the same thing. I was wondering how can I create multiple chunks of time within a day ? Thank you

Christophe_HK · 2020-12-07T21:22:51.465Z

Define the start time and end time of the day, or of each day if the week (opening hours) then setup a backend workflow to split your day’s hours in time slots. You can also add the timeslots duration as a parameter of the workflow (15 min, 30 min, 1 hour,…)

janz28 · 2020-12-07T22:13:13.850Z

Perfect! And do you know how can I display it on the app so the user can select different times? When the user clicks on ADD I would like a new line to appear to select different hours within the same day! Thank you. Messages Image(203513258)|537x500

janz28 · 2020-12-07T22:14:41.119Z

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julia1 · 2021-08-08T13:29:39.753Z

Hi @Christophe_HK - would you be able to explain how to set up the backend workflow to split the days into timeslots? Thank you

pattokane · 2021-08-21T00:31:05.249Z

@ambroisedlg love this mate. Is there a way when the user has selected the times to have that repeat every week?

ambroisedlg · 2021-08-21T17:48:11.583Z

@pattokane glad it helps!

With the demo above, availabilities are set for the user for all Mondays, Tuesdays etc so these should already repeat week after week

Hope this helps!
Ambroise

pattokane · 2021-08-21T19:22:52.697Z

Ok, I must be doing something wrong when trying to view it in a calendar then. I’ll keep fiddling around with it, cheers man

pattokane · 2021-08-21T20:45:08.301Z

Ok, I am lost. It does not seem to work for me LOL

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pattokane · 2021-08-21T20:45:52.000Z

I have tried it as a user, I have tried it as a user type and just cant seem to get them to repeat the available times.

In your demo when I go to App Data, yours seems to repeat whereas mine does not. I have looked over your steps and cant see what I am missing

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jared.gibb · 2021-08-21T20:57:01.488Z

You’ve created the start to time slots here. NOw you need to produce a lot of time slotted events with start and end times.

You need to tell the app, make a list of date ranges that is encapsulated by the daily start and end times this thread teaches you to create

This is the tricky part.

joelkeane · 2021-11-22T06:13:14.649Z

@janz28 did you ever work out how to implement the “add” button to have multiple times per day?