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Blackout Dates UI
Anybody know if Formidable or one of it's developers has something like this (see link)? I have a client who needs to be able to blackout individual dates on their date pickers ... weekends, holidays, and individual dates as the client sees fit & this will be updated on a daily basis by the client so it has to have a UI. No, the "unique" option in the date picker won't work as this is for ship dates, and not a reservation system. Sure would LOVE to stay with Formidable for this project!
September 14, 2017 at 6:18 am
Formidable and Gravity use the same jQuery Datepicker, which means the API is available to implement any functionality you want. http://api.jqueryui.com/datepicker/
September 14, 2017 at 11:05 am
I had to split my reply into two so it didn't have to wait for moderation. Here's part 2:
Blackout dates are already available in Formidable: https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/frm_selectable_dates/#kb-add-blackout-dates
September 14, 2017 at 2:10 pm
Hey Victor ... Thanks for the response. I know that blackout dates can be coded in, but I'm looking for a front-end UI for Formidable similar to the one already available for Gravity Forms. I am happy to hire a designer who could create this for me and, as needed, keep it updated to ensure it stays compatible with Formidable. Any ideas what something like that would cost to develop?
September 15, 2017 at 3:20 am
Bryan, I'm not confident that you can easily find someone who can change the front-end UI. I've spent the last couple of months writing a plugin that adds a jQuery Autocomplete field to Formidable Pro. I've been developing applications and plugins for a long time, but adding this field to Formidable is one of the most difficult tasks I've ever undertaken. The reason is because Formidable doesn't have very strong developer documentation and I've literally had to spend weeks walking through code to figure out how the Formidable internals work. The developer documentation on this site that explains how to create an add-on doesn't even begin to tell the story.
I may be wrong, but I haven't found any hooks that will allow a developer to create an additional UI component for an existing Pro field. The only way that I know of would be to create your own Pro add-on. It could literally take a couple of months and the cost to hire a developer for that amount of time could be astronomical unless you wanted to invest the dollars and market the add-on as your own.
September 15, 2017 at 8:16 am
Just following this thread. I have an upcoming project that could use something like this.
January 14, 2018 at 10:51 pm
I am also looking for a suitable solution where a customer can maintain a list of locked data, which is then locked in the datepicker field.
How to lock certain data with snippet is easy to find here. These functions exist and are well explained.
The solution would be a form that only contains locked data. These data must be passed as parameters of the lock function in the data picker. These then pass through an If then loop as an array.
However, this is where my ability to program ends. Anyway, this way would probably be the easiest, as it uses the built-in functions of Formadible most of all.
Discussion closed.