Limit the time slots that appointments and schedules can be booked
Currently the appointment and schedule forms appear for booking in 15 minute time slots. Some users need to limit booking to an hour or 1/2 hour period. This is now possible and can be set on a form by form basis. The following outlines how this is achieved.
Currently when an appointment is booked, 15 minute intervals are available to book from
To limit the time slots to 30 or 60 minutes, use the Advanced Form Property called "Interval Length". By default this is set to 15 minutes.
Once set to 30 minutes, ONLY 30 minute periods appear on the booking calendar (across iOS, m.html and the main app)
When this appointment form is selected for entry, ONLY times on the hour or 1/2 hour are displayed on the booking calendar
N.B. When booked, the time defaults to 30 min (as per the Event Length advanced form property)
An example of using the 60 minute booking interval
On the booking calendar, there are no expandable time slots and only the hourly periods appear for selection
When booking, the time default to 60 min (as per the additional advanced property settings in the form)
An example of a 15 minute interval (which is the default) being used in conjunction with the a 15 min Event Length setting
On the booking calendar 15 min appointments can be made
The start and finish time are set 15 minutes apart and cannot be overridden
CRITICAL CONSIDERATION: If you are using the 30 or 60 minute booking lengths and you do NOT set an event length and or limit the time override, you risk wasting booking time
In this example, the period is set to 60 minutes, with no Override or Event Length limitations
The booking calendar appears in 60 minute periods (as previously set for this form)
The user can choose an end time to 1:15. Because it can only be entered in 60 min intervals, there is a 45 minute window that is effectively unable to be booked
With the 60 min interval, no users can book in anything for this form until 2:00pm!
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