Restrict Duplicate Bookings in SharePoint Calendar through K2 smartform

  • 4 February 2016
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Hi Experts,

 

I am building a solution to utilize sharepoint calendar as a list and allow user to book the same through my custom smart form. The challange I am facing is that there is not option to restrict the duplicate booking by design in SharePoint Calendar. 

 

More Details:

 

- I have created a sharepoint Calendar

- converted the same in K2 objects using the K2 Blackpearl app

- Creating a custom form to book the calendar by having start time and end time date picker on the form

- I want to show the user a message if there is a conflict in time which is already booked on the calendar(ideally check from the filled entries in calendar list)

 

This is really urgent for me, any quick help would be highly appreciated.

 

 

Regards

Gaurav Mehta

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Maybe you can do a get list method when the user selects the time and the date

 

the filter would be greater than or equal to start and smaller than or equal to end date? put the result into a parametre, 

 

then do a rule if the parametre has a value, prohibit submission and show an error. 

 

you can also do a list view at the bottom of your screen to the same list, that would populate based on the picker controls in your form, once the day is selected the list populate the meetings/events for that day with the times and date, once the end date is selected, the view populates all the events matching the same start and end date.

 

would that work?

 

 

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Zack, can you elaborate on "do a get list method when the user selects the time and date?" What exactly do you do here? I know you can "Execute a Method" in Rule Designer but for me there is no method called "Get List". The closest I have is "Get List Item by ID" and I'm not sure if it's the same thing. Everything in this method confuses me and I don't know what I'm supposed to do with it once I add it in Rule Designer.

 

Even if you were able to get a list of previously booked dates, how do you compare newly requested dates with previous dates if they span multiple days? For example, if someone booked Jan. 5-7 then a second person tries to book Jan. 6-8, how does the form know that Jan. 6 is unavailable? The only data it has to work with is start and end date and there's no data that says Jan. 6 is booked.

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