CCK integration

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I've done some booking functionality here:
http://drupal.org/project/booking_timeslots
Maybe somebody will be interested,
but it's still under development and many things to do.

Brilliant news - really looking forward to seeing this project move forward. Personally very keen to use uc_node_checkout as a way to use Ubercart to bill for appointments.

Just spotted

for deciding between multiple users on the best times for a booking (or meeting) - ability to integrate or duplicate (aaaargh!) this functionality would be amazing. Not checked it out yet so not sure if it is CCK based or on it's own.

Doh - Just read the module info. Dudel uses CCK date field so yay?

I may have got the wrong end of the stick but I'm assuming that the CCK/Nodes integration involves both using nodes as the resources as well as nodes as the bookings themselves. If the bookings are nodes and use a CCK date field, it would be advantageous for multiple users to be able to input multiple choices for making a booking using the existing Dudel code.

This is straying off a little but I am personally trying to achieve a goal of allowing end users (customers) to book other users (engineers). The users that can be booked would have FeedAPI pulling in an iCal feed of free/busy times (nodes) that would hopefully provide conflict resolution using bookings API if it used nodes as the bookings. At the same time, I'd like to use the Dudel interface so that multiple users (stakeholders in a project) to select a mutually agreeable time for the booking. I'm assuming that without some form of integration, I cannot simply install both Dudel and the future BookingsAPI and bingo it works.

Hello there,
I gave Bookings API / Public Bookings a try and I can say it looks very promising ! Especially very good views integration very nice! keep on great work

...so far the plans would include bookings and resources as nodes, yes (performance issues may change this opinion).

In my opinion this feature together with increased calendar integration is THE key to make it really fly and gain popularity..

Would bookings as nodes not be good then? I've probably missed something but wouldn't it be the most flexible way to do it for multiple use cases? I wouldn't want to see a dependency on Event - that would get quite confusing for many newbies (myself included) or clients with admin access.

Just in case you were feeling alone in your quest, here's a big
wooot

from me regarding the new progress with this.

---edited to increase woot factor

*smile*

....keep up the good work!

Really glad to hear this is still in the works!

Please don't make this dependent on Events, though. Views support for Events has pretty much stagnated. :(

Would really love to make use of this but can't do it without the cck integration. Hope you're still working on this. Thank you for your contribution =D

Thanks you!

I'm working on a site that need a booking system. I'm using right now the alphas bookings API and publish booking. I'm trying to write some code to make a integration with the cck but for the alpha. I'll see the dev version to see what are you doing.

Thanks from Spain.

Subscribing, very interested!
Greetings, Martijn

Hey sure, right now I'm not realy happy with my code, so I guess this weekend have something good to show you.

Bookings as nodes will be great. Resources as nodes: also great. But how about resource availability? One complaint I'm getting from my clients is that they want to be able to let external users see available times, rather than unavailable times. I can't figure out how to do this with the current system.

We may be able to provide some funding, if that would help.

@emdalton

In the setting page with a check mark to show available resource only? with that is enough?

And what should be the way to do this ? w/o check the entered data each time it changes ? ... I'm thinking but I don't have a clear 'how to'

Well my road map will be:

cck integration ---> Booking API Free Cache (list avaible or something like this) ---> future :)

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on 3.x-dev

Is not a real integration with CCK.

bookiingsapi_tools is like a date_tools. You can creat new Content Types and associate to the bookingsapi, its not finish. I just did this example today. I'm thinking what else could do.

Right now when you active the bookingsapi_tools it generate a new content type so you can add new field with the CCK.

subscribing :)

I appreciate the problems. I've switched to CCK dates using Signup for now. While that is also not without problems, it comes closer to the functionality we need.

Perhaps an intermediary solution is to keep content type X in sync the resources ( 1:1 ) using hook nodeapi; thus "resource" becomes an extended "field(s)" of content type X.

This does not solve many other issues, i know, but could be a building block in the right direction.

Hi,

I've mentioned this in other threads, but for the benefit of those subscribing to this thread, I've submitted a module for approval which integrates the bookingsapi into a date-based node (aka Event). This provides a link between the bookings record and a node. The nice thing about this approach is it allows us to model "all day" events. In the date module, an "all day" event is modeled as a node with a from/to of 12:00am. However, this doesn't work with the bookingsapi (duration of zero). So my module allows you define a start/stop time for an all day event (among other features).

This module is dependent on the 6.x-3.x-dev version of bookingsapi - so it isn't considered production ready. But I'm looking for folks to QA - so I'd appreciate any feedback.

The module can be found at http://drupal.org/node/805048

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