I am currently using availability calendars on our site which we are finding incredible useful. However, we would love to be able to have Views functionality on the D6 version. We currently have nodes with availability calendars added which are in essence business listings in a wedding directory. We want to be able to add an exposed filter to our Views search bar that enables users to add their wedding date when searching, thus only showing results for businesses/nodes that do not have that day listed as booked on their calendar.

I understand that the D7 version has this Views capability but unfortunately, as it stands, a number of the modules that we have installed on our site have not been upgraded to D7 yet so we are unable to make a wholesale upgrade to D7 at the moment.

For this facility to be added, we are more than willing to pay for the time it will take to add this functionality to the D6 version. Would this be of interest to anyone? We are hoping to get the feature up and running ASAP.

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fietserwin’s picture

fietserwin
Location Le Mont-Dore
commented

Today I'm doing some maintenance on a D6 version. What a disaster :(

But anyway, porting back to D6 is not foreseen, but on a paid basis this is possible. It won't be a straight backport:
On the negative side:
- D7 version of this module is based on fields and Views 3
- D6 version is not a CCK field, thus integrating with Views will probably be a bit different.
- See issue comment #470994-16: search . So, if you are using split day, you might be in trouble. Though your use case suggests that the search would be 1 day only, in which case I think it will be possible.

On the positive side:
- I'm not sure, but I think that the API differences between Views 2 and Views 3 are not that many

Alternatives:
- Make a form yourself, if it does not contain many other filters, sorters, etc. Views can be replaced by custom coding. See e.g. issue #1212912: search work around?.

If you are still interested in doing it via Views, I'm available as of october 4. If you find someone else, we will incorporate it into the 6.x-2.x version, assuming that it is according to coding standards and best practices. Advantages for your client is future support and possibility to update.

You can contact me via my contact page.

stuhannaford’s picture

stuhannaford commented

Thanks for such a quick response. As my client currently relies very heavily on Views and will do in future I would be really interested in looking to get the feature incorporated into the D6 version. Thanks for the suggested work around but I feel in the long term, the Views option will be best. I'll drop you an email. Thanks!

fietserwin’s picture

fietserwin
Location Le Mont-Dore
commented
Version: 6.x-2.1 » 6.x-2.2
Status: Active » Fixed

Views support to filter on availability has been backported to D6. Thanks to the sponsoring by White Wedding Pages.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.