I’m sure I could have done that by writing my own views filter plugin or doing some form altering, but I settled for this approach: Ideally I would have a filter that exposed all of the possible resources as checkboxes - allowing the user to control what reservations for what resource they are viewing. This was easy enough by creating an exposed filter for the calendar view.
This would be a heavily used calendar with lots of events each day, and it would become a mess without some filtering capability. In my case there was a desire to be able to display the reservations for select resources at a time instead of all of them at once. Step 3: Filtering the Calendar by Resource Next I wanted to provide some filtering capability based on the resource of the reservation “events”. I loaded up some reservation nodes and viewed them in the calendar and everything was looking great so far. If you wanted to display more than one field, try adding them and then add a global field that combines them, then assign that as the title field. Similarly, for the title field, you can add any field and tell the plugin which one to use as “the” title for the event. If you add a date field, the style plugin automatically uses it as “the” date field to use, but if you have multiple date fields for whatever reason you can manually specify it in the settings. Both are displayed on the calendar cell - and nothing else. One thing to note is that while you can add any fields you want to the view, the style plugin only utilizes two: A date field and a title field. I quickly able to shorten it quite a bit to display the start and end times as “7:30a - 2:00p”.
DRUPAL RULES HARDCODE SELECTOR FULL
The style plugin for Full Calendar has a good set of options that let you customize the look and functionality of the calendar. Add the date field that is attached to “Resource Reservation” nodes.Add a filter to only show published “Resource Reservation” node.Create a new “Page” view displaying node content.I immediately knew I wanted to use the module and was happy to see it has been well maintained since I last checked it out in 2012. I was very impressed with the capability of the module and wrote about it after the camp was over. Years ago at the 2011 DrupalCamp NJ, I attended Tim Plunkett’s session “ Calendaring in Drupal.” Tim provided a great introduction to a new Drupal module called Full Calendar that utilized an existing JavaScript plugin with the same name. In my case, I created the 6 “Resource” nodes (all rooms in a building) that would be used in my department. I decided to go for a full blown entity reference to allow greater flexibility in the future for the actual resource node. Another option I considered was using a Taxonomy vocabulary with terms for reach resource, and adding a term reference field to the reservation content type. I created another content type “Resource” and linked it to a reservation using the Entity Reference module. I then needed to decide how I would manage the resources and link them to a reservation. Aside from that, I also made the date field have a required end date and support repeating dates using the Date Repeat Field module (part of the main Date module).
These three different types of date fields are explained here.
DRUPAL RULES HARDCODE SELECTOR ISO
Due to a bug in a module I used below, I had to use a normal date field and not ISO or Unix (I usually prefer Unix timestamps). I quickly created a new content type “Resource Reservation” and added a required date field. I’m happy to answer any questions in the comments. I won’t go into fine detail, and this is not meant to be a complete step by step guide. I wanted to share the general setup I used to get this done. The solution could be extended to create a more general resource booking / room booking system. The existing system that was being used was a pain to work with and very time consuming - and I knew this could be done easily in Drupal 7. The idea was to have a calendar that displayed reservations for various resources and allow privileged users the ability add reservations themselves. I just finished up a small project at work to create a basic resource management calendar to visualize and manage room and other asset reservations.
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