Showing unavailable days on small calendar

Hi Webrightnow,

This feature really make sense and We already added this feature in our premium version 3.5 coming in next week.

We will post a tweak to disable date on small date-picker calendar within hour.

Thanks
Frank

Great thanks Frank, that’s very helpful!

Hi Webrightnow

You can disable dates by doing this tweak:

Open file appointment-calendar-shortcode.php, available in plugin directory

Search bellow code line

$myCalendar->setOnChange("myChanged()");

Add new line code after searched line

$myCalendar->setOnChange("myChanged()");
$myCalendar->setSpecificDate(array("2013-05-15", "2013-05-16"), 0, '');

Above code line will disable May’s 2 date 15th & 16th May on small calendar. You can pass other dates to disable them on small calendar.

If you want disable these dates each month then pass an extra parameter as bellow

$myCalendar->setSpecificDate(array("2013-05-15", "2013-05-16"), 0, 'month');

Here the function documentation:

setSpecificDate (array dates, int type, string recursive)

    Optional: Set the specific to enable or disable.

    dates: the array of date, and date should be in format YYYY-MM-DD

    type: enable or disable the date specified. 0=disable, 1=enable

    recursive: '' (blank)=no recursive, calendar will process only on exact date, 'month'=monthly recursive, or 'year'=yearly recursive

    Ex 1. $myCalendar->setSpecificDate(array("2011-04-22"));
    Ex 2. $myCalendar->setSpecificDate(array("2011-04-22"), 0, 'month'); //disable date 22 every month
    Ex 3. $myCalendar->setSpecificDate(array("2011-04-22"), 0, 'year'); //disable 22 Apr on every year

Thanks & Kind regards
Hari

Good idea, but I think this fix is not flexible enough. There should be a way to import as a variable the time variables corresponding to the time off period into the function instead of having to hard code the time. I am doing a website for a client, and she needs to be able to update the time for herself. She has no coding knowledge.

I don’t know PHP that well, but if you run a foreach loop and for every instance of a timeoff period found within a month you add each time into the function. I do not know if this is possible but it in my mind it is a better more flexible way to go.

I’m thinking of buying the premium version, but I’d like to make sure first that this feature (disable unavailable days on the small calendar) has been included into the latest version as written in this thread. It should, cause it was posted 6 months ago, but I want to make sure cause it’s something important for my client. I tried the online demo and didn’t see this feature working though…

Thanks

Hi xaome,

Sorry! but at present this feature is not possible.

We have added in premium but after beta testing we removed. Because we found It’s more confusing workaround in booking process.

But we are searching for better solution to achieve this.
Hope you can understand. I will post you if any update on this.

Thanks
Frank

Hi Frank,

I agree it could be confusing with many slots a day because of the clotter it could cause, but in our case, we want to show only available/unavailable days in the calendar, and we believe it’s confusing for the user if the days are grayed out in the big calendar but aren’t the mini. And my client would like to have the form opening when clicking the date the user wants on the big calendar and the date chosen be automatically prefilled in the date field. I don’t think it’s an available option, so I made the whole calendar clickable and opening the modal window, but it’s still confusing cause the user may think his date was already chosen when it clicked the first time, and book the wrong date..

By the way, is it possible to gray out an entire cell if an entire day is booked or off (or even better, if it could be grayed out with a color for day off and different one for full day booked)? Cause right now it adds a block inside the case, as if it was appointments instead of unavailable days.

Thanks!

Hi Xaome,

Clicking on Big Calendar then pop up Form & selected date automatically prefilled in Appointment Date field. This features is already available only in premium version.

Give a try at demo link here.

Graying out an entire cell if any TimeOff is possible by tweaking some custom JS and CSS code.

Thanks
Frank

Oh nice thank you!!! didn’t noticed that when I tried the demo! ??