What is the best setup for this data

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I’m building a website to connect people to businesses that collect christmas trees.

I’ve managed to setup a large bulk of this project so far, but where I’m a bit confused is the best way to setup the ‘availability’ side of things for businesses.

If you look at this screenshot below, you can see that I’ve come up with a basic interface for the ‘availability’ settings, but because I’m working with a seasonal calendar (27th December to 31st January) I’m not sure how to best set this up.

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The current setup (as per the screenshot) is actually all individual groups, and not a repeating group. I had thought about creating a repeating group but wasn’t sure how to add the specific dates I need.

Additionally, I’m not sure the best practice for creating this in the database, i.e. I want to set all days as ‘available for collection’ by default, which would mean that there needs to be a new database entry for each day 27th December through to 31st January for when this user is created. What would be the best way to…

  1. Setup database for this.
  2. Input the data for each day into the database (date, available status, capacity, location, business name)
  3. Setup the interface (e.g. as is now, or by repeating group?)

Kind Regards,

Calum

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Availability

  • date
  • available? (y/n)
  • capacity (number)
  • location
  • business

Location

  • name (text)
  • business
  • etc…

Business

  • name (text)
  • list of locations
  • etc…

Use a backend workflow to create these entries for Dec 27 - Jan 21 for each location with pre-filled fields (defaults)

Set up a repeating group to display these availabilityEntries. Each row can show the date with dropdowns/inputs for users to edit them as needed.

Best of luck with your project! :slight_smile:

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This is brilliant, thank you! I managed to setup the repeating group and backend workflow to have the correct dates.

But I do have one additional question…

Where I have the dropdown ‘select a town’ and the input box ‘capacity’… I want to have the ability for users to click ‘+ add another area for this date’ which would allow them to have availability in multiple locations for the date, and capacity for each location on the date.

Firstly, do I need to change the suggested data structure?

Secondly, how can this be achieved? Presumably I need a repeating group, and when ‘+ add another area for this date’ is clicked, create a new database entry?

Thanks!