Ability to use javascript to select availability dates?

I would like to be able to do this, yes, but I've not looked too closely yet at what would be involved. Just out of interest, could you walk me through the workflow you'd like to see?

Hi,

I'm working on a website for a Bed & Breakfast in the Belgian Ardennes and wanted to show the visitors an availability calendar.

As you can see on http://verteplace.be/en/guestrooms I added some functionality to the calendar:
- some javascript to show one month at a time (for improved design)
- a "< previous" and "next >" month link
- day of week (using localization)
- some translations (dutch, french, german)
- title tags for better SEO
- always display dates in the past as unavailable

some things that may be usefull:
- option in admin to choose between "one month" display using javascript or full list of all months
- an optional link on the available days to a booking form
- a legend explaining the colors

let me know if you're interested in these features
regards

Subscribing!

I am interested in this same functionality. The best sort of functionality I suppose would be similar to Google Calendars or something like that. I imagine an interface where clicking on a date pops up a form where you can select the state for that day, and it all save through AJAX calls. For browsers with Javascript turned off, the existing interface would be preserved.

My client is willing to pay me to develop this functionality, so I can work up a patch immediately. Before starting, though, I'd like to know if anyone else has been working in this direction already and also have some feedback as to the direction to take in the development.

very nice example. That may be the way to go. I definitely suggest something other than alt+click for pm bookings. It will be prone to cross browser issues.

Perhaps just cycling through ALL the different bookings on left click would be best.

Interesting. It will certainly be hard to incorporate without a real patch however. Also the need for that jQuery plugin and such could provide some other difficulties. It is an interesting idea and thanks for sharing the code.

If we went with your code, I think that the datepicker jQuery plugin may need to be broken off into another module or added via jpq module and the dependency checked by our module. But this would make jqp a dependency of this module.

I’m working my way through the comments, to try to summarize this issue. I’m not sure if I read them correctly, so please correct me if I’m wrong.

• The original poster wants to be able to easier update the calendar.
• mpp wants easier selection by visitor, not easier updating. Unfortunately, mmp created a fork of the module with (my conclusion, might be wrong) all kinds of hardcoded features: impossible to incorporate these changes into the module, impossible for the client of mpp to upgrade to future versions of this module. The basic idea however is useful but would need a separate issue: “booking form integration”. This already kind of exists: #306467: Integrate Availability Calendars with booking process (was: ability to reserve), but that is asking too much, a lot of which is beyond the scope of this module.
• aacraig wants the same as OP.
• steffenr wants the same as OP and implemented it himself. Code is available but is also a fork of the module (hardcoded interface strings in German). Ideas are nice though, but I think it would be better to have our own calendar available in the edit form to click on, instead of a date picker that does not show current states.

To clean up the issue queue, I suggest closing this as a duplicate of #937818: Easier updating of calendars: book ranges at once even though this one is the older one. The comments here contain more “noise” and the other issue is more specific. Mpp’s idea can be continued in a “high jacked” version of #306467: Integrate Availability Calendars with booking process (was: ability to reserve).

@SteffenR: I decided to invest in Drupal knowledge upfront or at least while I'm building sites. So, now I ended up here as co-maintainer, assuring that my client gets this module without custom coding, because I commit it all :). Of course this means investing extra time in polishing features, but in the end it should pay off. Also read: http://www.palantir.net/blog/drupals-ladder-engagement.

Anyway, thanks for your reactions and and stay tuned, albeit possibly in #937818: Easier updating of calendars: book ranges at once. I will elaborate my plans for the update form in a few days.

@all subscribers: please see comments #7 and #8 of #937818: Easier updating of calendars: book ranges at once and help us completing it.