If your staff are booking several weeks in advance, this how-to shows modifications to get the 'Add Another Booking' link to position to the same date as the booking just made.

There are 3 steps involved:

1. Edit the Front Desk booking screen to support setting date via a querystring parameter.
2. Edit the front desk confirmation screen to fetch the start date of the current booking and put it in a hidden field.
3. Edit the Front Desk controller to look for the date and append it to the 'Add Another Booking' call.

 

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Step 1.

Edit file: \components\com_rsappt_pro3\views\booking_screen_fd\tmpl\default.php

 

Around lime 255 look for:

$gridwidth = $apptpro_config->gad_grid_width."px";
$namewidth = $apptpro_config->gad_name_width."px";

 

Add the red code in front..

// this overrides the disable-dates-before setting
if(JRequest::getVar('mystartdate','')!=""){
$grid_date = JRequest::getVar('mystartdate',''); // usage http://....&mystartdate=2009-09-14
}

$gridwidth = $apptpro_config->gad_grid_width."px";
$namewidth = $apptpro_config->gad_name_width."px";

 

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Step 2.

 

Edit file: \components\com_rsappt_pro3\views\fd_confirmation\tmpl\default.php

 

Around line 80 look for:

<input type="hidden" name="frompage_item" value="<?php echo $itemid ?>" />

 

Add the red code:

<input type="hidden" name="frompage_item" value="<?php echo $itemid ?>" />

<input type="hidden" name="req_date" value="<?php echo $req_date ?>" />

 

Around line 48 insert:

// get booking date so book-another can position to same date
$sql = 'SELECT startdate FROM #__sv_apptpro3_requests WHERE id_requests ='.$req_id;
try{
$database->setQuery($sql);
$req_date = NULL;
$req_date = $database -> loadResult();
} catch (RuntimeException $e) {
logIt($e->getMessage(), "fd_conf_tmpl_default", "", "");
echo JText::_('RS1_SQL_ERROR');
return false;
}

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Step 3.

Edit file: \components\com_rsappt_pro3\controllers\front_desk.php

 

Around line 788 look for:

function do_book_another(){
$frompage_item = JRequest::getVar('frompage_item');

Add the red code:

function do_book_another(){
$frompage_item = JRequest::getVar('frompage_item');
$req_date = JRequest::getString('req_date', "");
if($req_date != ""){ $req_date = "&mystartdate=".$req_date;}

 

A few line further down, look for (and add red code):

if($seo == "1"){
$this->setRedirect( JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_rsappt_pro3&view=front_desk&task=add_booking&Itemid='.$frompage_item.$req_date ));
} else {
$this->setRedirect( 'index.php?option=com_rsappt_pro3&view=front_desk&task=add_booking&Itemid='.$frompage_item.$req_date );
}

 

Now the Add Another Booking link will set the grid date to the same date as the last booking.