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Sync chronoform with redEVENT calendar

MacAcer 22 Jun, 2011
Hello,

I been using Chronoform for a long time and it has served my intended purpose.
The setup I got is very simple but thus require a bit of manual work from the administrators part and an attentive user to make the reservations.

I have a calendar from redEVENT and the form from Chrono.
These two separate applications doesn't speak with each other at all.
I just manually been adding the requested event from the form to the calendar.
The user who makes the reservation has to crosscheck with the indepandantly operating calendar if the date and time they want to attend at is free or not.

Now, would it be possible for these two components to communicate with each other?
If a reservation is made through the Chronoform, could an event automatically be created in the redEVENT calendar as a pending reservation. Then the admins task is simply to confirm the request to attend at the requested date or not.
I would also like to see the two components to communicate in order to avoid requests to attend at the same date. When you fill out the chronoform and select date, any date with previous confirmed reservation should be unavailable.

If this is too complicated to get working with another components such as redEVENT, is there any other way to illustrate the reservations that been made through a similar calendar?

I am sure that there are a whole lot of smart solutions out there and I'm looking forward to hear about what you've come up with to achieve something similar to what I'm looking for.

Your help is much appreciated.
GreyHead 22 Jun, 2011
Hi MacAcer ,

The answer is almost certainly yes. You'd need to have the details of the RedEvent tables and probably hand code a MySQL query to update them appropriately. The code would go in one of the ChronoForms OnSubmit boxes.

I don't know anything about RedEvent so can't comment in much more detail than that.

Bob

Bob
MacAcer 22 Jun, 2011
Thank you for the reply, Bob.

Is there any such working solution out there right now?
It doesn't have to have any connection with redEVENT, I could do with any calendar.
I just want to be able to give those who want to register a good and simple overview of what dates are available and I think a calendar is a good tool to illustrate that.
GreyHead 23 Jun, 2011
Hi MacAcer,

I'm sure that there is but I don't remember anything recent here that I can point you to :-(

If you can find the table specs for RedEvent (or another similar module) then we can probably help you make the link up work.

Bob
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