Programmatically disable cells.

[ultimaustin]

As discussed in this thread: https://github.com/bibekg/react-schedule-selector/issues/23

Please can I request an enhancement to prevent the user from selecting certain cells. For any given day I know which cells are available to book and which have already been booked. I therefore need to be able to prevent the user from selecting the slots which have already been chosen by someone else.

The cells which has a "disabled" state should be styled differently to make it clear that they are not selectable and obviously would not respond to click events.

[MaxKicw]

Hey guys @bibekg @ultimaustin,

I needed this feature as well. Now, I build it myself and it is working fine! In my version, you are able the assign a blocked prop to the ScheduleSelector Element, and those Cells will be filtered from the selectionDraft. The blocked dates are represented in red and don't have any Event-Listeners assigned to them. If they are included in a date range they will also be filtered from the selectionDraft!

I'm not sure how I can contribute to this project and send my implemented feature to you guys. This is my first time adding a feature to an npm package that's not my own.

Would appreciate it, if you guys could check it out and maybe implement it into the package. Would be so cool. So what do in need to do for you to check it out? Branch it?

Thank you for this Scheduler, it works really well and the programming is mint 🍃

[bibekg]

That's wonderful @MaxKicw - thanks for implementing it and for the kind words! I think you can fork the repo, then create a pull request with your proposed changes (see this guide). I'd be more than happy to give it a review!

[bibekg]

Started implementing this feature in #38 but I have a question for you @ultimaustin -- what method of specifying dates to block would be better?

Option 1

An array of Date objects -- this requires that the date objects match exactly the dates of the cells (via a comparison of .toISOString()). This also means you need to be wary of what value you're using for hourlyChunks to ensure that all the cells you want to block in a time window are being blocked.

<ScheduleSelector
  // ...
  blockedTimes={[
    new Date('2020-11-22T20:00:00.000Z'), 
    new Date('2020-11-22T21:00:00.000Z'), 
    new Date('2020-11-22T22:00:00.000Z'), 
    new Date('2020-11-22T23:00:00.000Z'), 
    new Date('2020-11-22T24:00:00.000Z')
  ]}
/>

or

Option 2

An array of date ranges (start and end Dates, inclusive of the start, exclusive of the end) -- this lets you specify a large amount of cells to block with a short syntax but will be a bit more verbose if you just want to specify a single time cell here and there.

<ScheduleSelector
  // ...
  blockedTimeRanges={[
    { from: new Date('2020-11-22T20:00:00.000Z'), to: new Date('2020-11-22T24:00:00.000Z') },
  ]}
/>

[BelvedereHenrique]

Hey guys,

I'm really needing this feature, any update on this?

[Haidar-arainx]

can we make it readonly