Calendars - Events Spanning Multiple Dates And Color Coding

[shaferam]

I need to create a reservation system for managing a couple student apartments in different locations. I've created a reservation form and a calendar data page but the calendar doesn't show the data the way I would like it to (most likely because I'm just not sure what I'm doing ). Two questions:

 

1. If on the reservation form someone reserves Room A from January 1 - January 10... how do I get that person's reservation to show on all of the reserved days (January 1 - January 10) on the calendar instead of just the first day of the reservation (January 1)?

 

2. Is there a way to color code the calendar based upon a particular field in the reservation form? If I want Room A and B to show as blue because they are part of one apartment and Room C and D to show as green because they are part of a different apartment?

 

Thanks for the guidance!

[gsgriffin]

I don't think you'll be finding a good solution with Caspio default functionality.  The calendars only allow for the placement based on a single date field.  I would recommend a custom development with an API...basically, custom web page that get the data from Caspio but creates the calendar outside of Caspio.  This will take some advanced technical skills and perhaps integration with a 3rd party calendar web app.

[Walter]

Hi,

 

I believe, the "Resource Scheduling" RMA does something like your goal:

http://www.caspio.com/resource-scheduling/

[Flowers4Algernon]

Hi,  you might want to check out Caspio's Custom Calendar App Extension and this Techtip.

[GoodBoy]

Hello guys! Just found out that they already have an article to achieve this functionality in a Calendar DataPage. 

- https://howto.caspio.com/tech-tips-and-articles/advanced-customizations/color-coding-in-datapages/

[Kurumi]

Hi - Good news! Caspio has a new Tech tip called Downloading Appointments to Calendars Using ICS Files. To know more on how to implement it in the DataPage, you can check it here: https://howto.caspio.com/tech-tips-and-articles/advanced-customizations/download-appointments-to-calendars-using-ics-files/

[IamNatoyThatLovesYou]

Hi everyone, just wanted to share that Caspio now has a tech tip for color coding events in a calendar DataPage. You may check it out here. https://howto.caspio.com/tech-tips-and-articles/color-coding-in-datapages/

[PotatoMato]

Hi! Just to add, Caspio has also an article that enables you to download Calendar events as PDF: https://howto.caspio.com/tech-tips-and-articles/downloading-calendar-events-as-pdf-files/

 

-Potato