Recurring Appointment on webservice bound scheduler

[Meera]

I am using a rad scheduler bound with web service. How do I customize the appointment updating with recurring values? I would like to use the advanced form as it is but i want to handle the method of updating/saving the appointment in a different way. I could not find any sample codes handling recurring appointments in a web service bound scheduler. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Meera

[Boyan Dimitrov]

Hello Meera,

Could you please elaborate a bit more on your scenario? Please explain how exactly do you want to customize a recurring appointment using the advanced form. Please note the RadScheduler does offer a client-side event OnClientFormCreated which is fired when the form is opened for inserting/editing an appointment. In this help article you may find some examples how you can determine whether the advanced form is opened and execute some custom logic ( accessing some advanced form fields or controls and changing the values).

Looking forward to your reply.


Regards,
Boyan Dimitrov
Telerik

[Meera]

Thank You Boyan. 

Your post gave me very helpful ideas. 

This is the scenario I have:

[WebMethod]
 public SchedulerResult UpdateAppointment(M4SchedulerInfo schedulerInfo, AppointmentData appointmentData)
 {
     SchedulerResult result = new SchedulerResult();
     result.Operation = "updating";

     var appointmentInfo = new Dictionary<string, string>();
     appointmentInfo.Add("ID", appointmentData.ID.ToString());
     appointmentInfo.Add("Start", Convert.ToString(appointmentData.Start));
     appointmentInfo.Add("End", Convert.ToString(appointmentData.End));
     appointmentInfo.Add("TechID", appointmentData.Resources.ToDictionary(a => a.Type)["TechName"].Key.ToString());
     appointmentInfo.Add("TechName", appointmentData.Resources.ToDictionary(a => a.Type)["TechName"].Text.ToString());
     appointmentInfo.Add("TicketState", appointmentData.Resources.ToDictionary(a => a.Type)["TicketState"].Key.ToString());

     var AppointmentManager = new Workforce.CCode.AppointmentManager();
     var _apptID = (int)appointmentData.ID;
     var _startTime = appointmentInfo["Start"];
     var _endTime = appointmentInfo["End"];
     var _techID = int.Parse(appointmentInfo["TechID"]);
     var _ticketState = int.Parse(appointmentInfo["TicketState"]);
     var _subject = appointmentData.Subject;

     StatusMessage status = AppointmentManager.RescheduleAppointment(
         _apptID,
         _startTime,
         _endTime,
         _techID,
         _ticketState,
         false);

     bool isLocked = AppointmentManager.IsAppointmentLocked(_apptID, _ticketState);

     if (!isLocked && status.message.Contains("No conflict found"))
     {
         // Appointment is open to rescheduling.
         // Last argument to the method is an optional value that forces rescheduling.
         AppointmentManager.RescheduleAppointment(
             _apptID,
             _startTime,
             _endTime,
             _techID,
             _ticketState,
             false,
             true);

         // Appointment was successfully rescheduled.
         result.Code = 1;
     }
     else
     {
         // Conflict exists. Return the result to the calling client. Client with handle from there.
         var delimiter = "||";
         var _params = new System.Text.StringBuilder()
             .Append(status.message).Append(delimiter)
             .Append(appointmentInfo["ID"]).Append(delimiter)
             .Append(appointmentInfo["Start"]).Append(delimiter)
             .Append(appointmentInfo["End"]).Append(delimiter)
             .Append(appointmentInfo["TechName"]).Append(delimiter)
             .ToString();

         result.Params = _params;

         // Any code other than 1 implies that a conflict has occured.
         if (isLocked)   result.Code = 2;
         else            result.Code = 10;
     }

     AppointmentManager.UpdateAppointmentSubject(_apptID, _subject);

     return result;
 }

Here i would like to implement the recurrence series too. I do not need to have an option to create a recurrence series when i create an appointment. I need to have the option only when i update an existing appointment. ie. on UpdateAppointment.

This is what I have on my client side event on update.

function OnAppointmentUpdating (sender, eventArgs)
{
    var appointment = eventArgs.get_appointment();

    document.getElementById("<%= CMID.ClientID %>").value             = appointment.get_id();
    document.getElementById("<%= CMStartTime.ClientID %>").value      = appointment.get_start();
    document.getElementById("<%= CMEndTime.ClientID %>").value        = appointment.get_end();
    document.getElementById("<%= CMTechID.ClientID %>").value         = appointment.get_resources().getResourcesByType("TechName").getResource(0).get_key();;
    document.getElementById("<%= CMTicketState.ClientID %>").value    = appointment.get_resources().getResourcesByType("TicketState").getResource(0).get_key();;
    document.getElementById("<%= CMRescheduleAppt.ClientID %>").value = true;
    document.getElementById("<%= CMChangeTech.ClientID %>").value     = false;
    document.getElementById("<%= AppointmentDurationHiddenField.ClientID %>").value = appointment.get_durationInMinutes();

}

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Meera

[Boyan Dimitrov]

Hello,

As far as I understand you want to have the recurrence option in the advanced form only when user is going to update an appointment. When user inserts a new appointment the recurrence option will be hidden. As I mentioned in my last response convenient event for such functionality would be the OnClientFormCreated. In this event handler you can check whether the advanced form is opened ( the recurrence editor is only available in the advanced form).
//markup code

<telerik:RadScheduler ID="RadScheduler1" runat="server"
     .........
       OnClientFormCreated="clientFormCreated"
     .............
   </telerik:RadScheduler>

//JavaScript

function clientFormCreated(sender, args) {
            var $ = $telerik.$;
            var mode = args.get_mode();
            if (mode == Telerik.Web.UI.SchedulerFormMode.AdvancedInsert) {

                var recurrencePanelInsertJQueryObject = $("[id$='AdvancedInsertForm_RecurrenceCheckboxPanel']");
                recurrencePanelInsertJQueryObject.hide();
            }
        }

Regards,
Boyan Dimitrov
Telerik