booking a resource rather than a human

[deronnax]

Hello. I ran into django-appointment recently and I have started to play with it, it's very nice.

Feature Description

I would like to book a physical resource, not a human (it won't be a StaffMember, then)

The Ideal Solution

I have no idea. Ideally it would be a different object than StaffMember but I have the feeling it might be hard or even undoable

The Current Solution

Additional Context

Are you willing to help with the implementation?

• [x] Yes, I will contribute to the implementation of this feature.
• [ ] No, I can't assist with the implementation, but I can provide feedback and guidance.

Priority

How important is this feature to you?

• [ ] Critical
• [x] High
• [ ] Medium
• [ ] Low

I don't think I will be able to achieve what I want with the current system :)

[adamspd]

It may be doable. What kind of resources are we talking about ?

[deronnax]

An infrastructure used for sport: tennis court, football field, ping pong table. Actually, just that an appointment doesn't have to have a staff member attached to it could be a beginning.

[adamspd]

The proposed service would be the resource to be booked.

Maybe the staff member would become a nullable field? (A condition could be added in the HTML template to remove the field altogether if it's null). A new field in service saying that it's a resource to be booked, no need for a staff member, may be necessary.

This could be the solution, but the drawback is that you'd have to create as many services as resources to book.

[deronnax]

Hmmm, I am no django model expert, but what if there was an intermediate model, representing a general resource to book, and this resource could either be a human or something non-human (typically something physical)?

[adamspd]

My train of thought was: I want a service that is being offered by one or many people from which I have to choose.

To represent it visually:

Choose a service -> choose the date and time -> choose someone who's offering that service.

The way I see it (correct me if I'm wrong), that intermediate model would be the equivalent of the service model (or the equivalent of staff member) ?

What I understood from the need you explained is that it would be like a service (resource to be booked).

I want to book a tennis court (resource)
I choose a date and time
I choose the one I need if there is several tennis court object [court 1, court 2 etc...] (optional)
Done

Of course, that is my understanding and I may be wrong, but if you have a better idea, I'm all for it.

[deronnax]

As we saw it live with Adams, I will actually not need this anymore. Thank you again for your thorough explanations, though.