Hi I am looking for some type of availability calendar for a website. The website is actually for booking an accomodation so the calendar simply needs to show on the web page as a list of the months with certain days marked as red for example to show that the accomodation is booked for those days. In the backend of Umbraco it will need to give the user the ability to mark days as booked or available. Is there currently anything out there that could do this, I have seen post about PD Calendar but I'm not sure this would do what I require?
The business website starter pack (http://our.umbraco.org/projects/business-website-starter-pack) includes an event calendar with iCal export. I would test them both (business starter with iCal and PD Calendar) to find a possible solution that will work for you.
No, not yet I haven't, I have been working on other projects and this one is currently not in progress but I am likely to need it in the future so if you do find a solution please let me know.
This is "the first thing that came into my head" (tm), so there are probably many better ways to do this, but for a simple solution you could, as Seth says, use my http://our.umbraco.org/projects/business-website-starter-pack package, and swap out the concept of "Events" for "Bookings".
You'd then have a calendar that displays bookings with a nice red mark on booked dates e.g. (http://beta2.geckonm.com/events.aspx?year=2009&month=December) and a nice ical export that you can plug directly into google calendar/ms outlook for ease of use.
One downside with this approach is that the calendar only records the beginning of events (startDate), so I#d imagine you'd need to amend it to mark ont he calendar the whole duration of the stay.
PDCalendar is also worth a good look too.
<lazyway>Or just use google calendar, embed a copy in your site and off you go!</lazyway>
Availability/Booking calendar
Hi I am looking for some type of availability calendar for a website. The website is actually for booking an accomodation so the calendar simply needs to show on the web page as a list of the months with certain days marked as red for example to show that the accomodation is booked for those days. In the backend of Umbraco it will need to give the user the ability to mark days as booked or available. Is there currently anything out there that could do this, I have seen post about PD Calendar but I'm not sure this would do what I require?
The business website starter pack (http://our.umbraco.org/projects/business-website-starter-pack) includes an event calendar with iCal export. I would test them both (business starter with iCal and PD Calendar) to find a possible solution that will work for you.
hey, did you find a solution for this? I have a similar issue
tia
Hi Jay,
No, not yet I haven't, I have been working on other projects and this one is currently not in progress but I am likely to need it in the future so if you do find a solution please let me know.
Hi trFletch
This is "the first thing that came into my head" (tm), so there are probably many better ways to do this, but for a simple solution you could, as Seth says, use my http://our.umbraco.org/projects/business-website-starter-pack package, and swap out the concept of "Events" for "Bookings".
You'd then have a calendar that displays bookings with a nice red mark on booked dates e.g. (http://beta2.geckonm.com/events.aspx?year=2009&month=December) and a nice ical export that you can plug directly into google calendar/ms outlook for ease of use.
One downside with this approach is that the calendar only records the beginning of events (startDate), so I#d imagine you'd need to amend it to mark ont he calendar the whole duration of the stay.
PDCalendar is also worth a good look too.
<lazyway>Or just use google calendar, embed a copy in your site and off you go!</lazyway>
Dan
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