I have no idea where to start with a bookings / calendar solution. I have been ask to deliver a bookings solution for a small gym studio. 30 minutes spots are allocated to client bookings, contacts and equipment must be related.

Are there any recommendations from the forum? Bookings in FMP and online calendar? iCal?

Are there any solutions available?

Any recommendation would by appreciated.

Thanks

Greg

Edited January 25, 201015 yr by Guest

You could start with Ray's demo: http://www.nightwing.com.au/FileMaker/demos7/demo705.html

Also, see this thread: http://fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/193440/

You might want to try adapting the Calendar Template from SeedCode.

Oh yes, that is a good start. Thanks.

Do not get the rational about the second link, is it my lack of humor? : (bcooneys' reply)

Edited January 26, 201015 yr by Guest

Well Greg, you rank yourself as a beginner, and yet you seem to be presenting yourself as a FM developer to a client. Seems comment's post was appropriate.

Yeah Right! Understand. Sorry, I am just of a humble nature. : Actually I am a very highly skilled professional in disguise, but do not tell anybody. Promise?

Snarkiness aside, this conversation is not complete without a note to check out Reactor Calendar. The lite version is free, its easy and allows "dragging" the edges.

Check out this post:

http://fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/212027/

Reactor: Is this a FileMaker Solution, or is it a Browser based online solution accessed through WebViewer?

Cheers

I guess the best answer is both. It "lives" in a web viewer but you don't actually need to be connected to the internet to use it. It is designed specifically for FileMaker and is really easy to set up. The lite version is free.

I should have included a link:

http://fusionplugins.com/reactor/

I also have a bookings/calendar problem, in which the user of the database (me!) has to book a few hundred theatre productions in to schools.

It's not so much a case of booking slots, as making sure that each is diarised clearly so I don;t make any double bookings and I can clearly show my actors where they are going to!

I use Qutic's FMiCal Connector to show my schedules in iCal and for a single workstation solution it works well.

My next plan is multiple users and an internet based server: but this means that I would need to sync to a hosted calendar - ideally Google Calendar. Bespoke Filemaker calendars are not appropriate for me as they won't sync to people's iCal/Outlook/iPhone/Blackberry etc.

Does anyone know of any solutions to this problem? Thank you!

Sort of ... I usually guide people to this:

http://www.nightwing.com.au/FileMaker/demos7/demo705.html

...it would work as database backbone for a solution, the graphic interface should then when a booking is made include or do some sending java-script towards the Google calendar API ... however would the opposite way be somewhat tricky, say a user drags things on his/her calendar, this is not necessarily not transmitted reversely to the backbone:

I would think you should use something in the vicinity of this:

http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/movies/FilemakerCurrency.shtml

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