Block Bookings - recurrence

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Hi, I’m trying to create a booking service for Sports Pitches. These can be booked repeatedly across the year and I wondered if there was a way of creating block bookings within the object, so for eg, every Monday 2-4? Has anyone done this before?

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Hi @a.anderson
Thanks for posting. I’m just trying to hunt down the best person to respond to this.
We’ll get back to you as soon as we can.
Tony

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Hi Alison - welcome to the community.

The booking widget is only designed to make a single booking. However, the underlying capabilities would allow you to make repeated bookings. Therefore, yes you can. I think you would need to decide how you go before expanding too much…

Bookings can be made without the booking widget, using a form - but it would typically only be used for a single booking.

I can think of a few other options - a custom “Multi-booking Widget” or an event processor that takes a start date; repeat interval and end point (I suppose a little like Outlook). In theory, I think you could also do it in build studio, but that may be a stretch too far!

You would need to decide what to do if a booking slot is not available and some means of reporting back the success or otherwise.

Not sure this is a trivial exercise - unless you have a JavaScript development capability.

Happy to pick up further.

Richard

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Hi Richard,
Thanks for this. I’m very new to this so not quite sure how to create a custom widget? Or even how to process an event?
I am trying to do this in Build Studio but perhaps I’m not in the right place?
Do you know of others who have used this feature in their builds?
Thanks, Alison

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Hi Alison
You may find it helpful to attend our event next Friday Build Surgery - Code Studio: Event Actions - Friday 22nd January 2021
This will introduce you to code studio. I’m not suggesting it will directly solve your problem, but it may give you some direction.
Tony

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Thanks Tony, I have that in my calendar so will attend with interest :slight_smile:

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Hi Alison, we’ve got some enhanced booking functionality being rolled out to some citizen hub customers. I’ll speak to the guys who are dealing with it and contact you directly once I know more.

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Hi, I also have a requirement for recurring bookings and multiple day/time bookings. Have any enhanced features been created for the booking functionality?