How to use recurring events in custom form?

Scheduler ASP.NET MVC
#1

Hi guys,

I neet to know how can I use my custom recurring event block in my custom form.

Thanks!!

#2

You can place any custom sections in the scheduler’s lightbox, there is no limitiation.
If you want to use custom recurring section with built-in recurring functionality of the scheduler - it is possible as well, but a bit tricky, as your custom form section will need to modify not only rec_type, but event_length and end_date of event as well.

Basically you can provide any GUI and in getValue method of form section modify above mentioned fields in necessary way.

rec_type - type of recurrency
event_length - length of event in seconds
end_date - end of last event occurence

#3

Hi Stanislav,

Thanks by you replay, but I need to know the method to write a recurring event in DB. I mean, I want to put in the custom form my own section for recurring:

Monday, Tuesday … recurring number, etc and with this data I want to call a method to save in db. Is that possible?

Thanks again!!!

#4

If you want to have a single record in DB which will be shown in scheduler as a set of events - you need to use above mentioned fields, and they will be automatically saved by scheduler

Monday, Tuesday … recurring number
You can have such ui and convert it to valid rec_type, end_date, event_length values, which will be saved in db

If you want to save just some custom data - you can assign custom property to the event object

scheduler.getEvent(id).some = value;

all such properties will be sent to the server side, where they can be saved or processed in some other way.

#5

Stanislav,

Take a look at:
http://scheduler-net.com/docs/recurring_events.html
at the bottom of the page is the format for how the scheduler stores recurring events.

So if I understand what you are trying to accomplish correctly what you need to do is server side extract the values from your custom control(s) and form a rec_type string that is understandable by the scheduler. I guess you could do it client-side as well and just pass a rec_type value back but that seems kinda a messy.

Keep in mind you will also have to decode the string and set the values when you want to edit the event

It is something I was looking at doing myself but ultimately I found that just using the lightbox I could achieve what I needed.