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Need help with Smd_Calendar & little more
Hello,
I’m working on a project where, I’m making a Studio Schedule Management system. Basically, its just a simple film editing studio where people rent the machines for editing. The charges apply for number of hours the system are rented for.
- Right now, the whole studio schedule is manually managed. People have to call to check if studio is available & then make booking.
- Billing is manual. There’s no record for anything. So many time people deny of using the studio for the hours they are being charged for.
- We need to have a schedule management system.
- We need to have a record of people coming in & going out.(This is for Phase 2.)
- We need to allow people to book studio. I’ve thought of dividing a day in time slots of 2hrs so that scheduling & thus billing, will be easy & accurate.
Studio manager will have a control panel from where he’ll be managing the schedule. On the front-end, people willing to book studio can check if time slots are unoccupied, if they are taken, they’ll see as taken, else, they’ll have a button called to book they slot. They will be able to book multiple slots by using check-boxes.
This is where I am planning to use smd_calendar plugin. But, I want a week view with the time slots showing for each day.
The one taken already, will be disabled, the one available will have check boxes. For that studio manager will be just posting an article for that day and selecting time slots in custom field. Title will the client’s name who has rented the slot. Will use glz_custom_fields for the custom fields.
I’m trying to keep it very simple for studio manager as he is not very technically sound.
So my question is can I have a week view with smd_calendar, and how can I show time slots on each day. I want to look a lot like a day planner.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time and so sorry for the long question.
EDIT:
Kindly check this jQuery Calendar
Check the week view, this is exactly what I’d like.
I admit that I’m not a programmer, I’m more like a frontend designer. So please help me with this :p
Last edited by vineonardo (2013-01-26 18:41:10)
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#2 2013-01-29 20:54:39
- uli
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Re: Need help with Smd_Calendar & little more
I think smd_calendar should be applicable, have a look at the calendar Tom Reno designed for a school’s website (flip through some months to find also intersecting time slots, in case the studio will be extended to several units). Tom has done it with smd_calendar. If not doable with smd_calendar on its own, one of the glz or msd (yup, msd this time, not smd) form calendar implementations for custom fields surely outputs the yyymmdd date format, so you can calculate with the field entries (adi_calc, aks_var) and thus can size and offset the related divs.
I’m not sure whether the checkbox booking for clients via front side is doable when smd_calendar is used, but that’s to be clarified with one more forum question, probably best in the smd_calendar topic.
Good luck!
Edit:
I’ve now probably sufficiently revealed that I’ve not worked with smd_calendar for ages ;)
Last edited by uli (2013-01-29 20:56:10)
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Re: Need help with Smd_Calendar & little more
Thank you for sharing Uli!
I’ve just had a look at Tom Reno’s calendar and ditto it’s an excellent job …that’s exactly the sort of thing I’ve been looking for for some time, I just don’t know how to do that :-( I can see a ton of jQuery links… Are there any pointers as to how to do the clever click-a box-and-various-things-light-up on the calendar part? Does Tom bite if I ask him?
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#5 2013-01-31 13:16:25
- uli
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Re: Need help with Smd_Calendar & little more
gavnosis wrote:
Does Tom bite if I ask him?
Don’t think so, but here’s the topic you can try in. Can’t tell, though, whether he’s really busy or off to another CMS, he’s posted very little in the last year(s).
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#6 2013-01-31 14:02:41
- Algaris
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Re: Need help with Smd_Calendar & little more
If it’s of any interest here’s what I put together (with a lot of help from Stef) using smd_calendar.
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Re: Need help with Smd_Calendar & little more
Thank you Uli, and thank you Ross for sharing (Yes it is of interest and I’ll study carefully…)
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