Displaying the Availability of Your Users

In this guide, we'll explore two effective methods of displaying your user’s availability: using a table or utilizing a calendar view. With this ability you are able to see how many available time slots are open and track number of bookings against overall availability. You can then take appropriate actions if time slots are limited. Each approach offers its own benefits.

Using a table to display the availability and busy times of your users

There are many possible implementations of the above table.

This example uses the GET /user_availability_schedules and /user_busy_times endpoints to retrieve data and display it in a useful format. 

• The “Day of Week” column pulls from the rules array returned in the /user_availability_schedules collection

• The “Availability Range(s)” column is also populated from the rules array returned in the /user_availability_schedules

• The “Unavailable Times” column pulls from the /user_busy_times endpoint

• The “Total Scheduled Hours” column calculates the total booked time slots in a human-readable format, using Moment.js 

• The “Total Available Hours To Book” column simply calculates the difference between column 2’s and column 4’s totals, while also making use of Moment.js

Using a calendar to display the availability and busy times of your users

Source: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-big-calendar
Note: This gif does not show a direct example of integrating Calendly, rather what the generic react-big-calendar looks like

INCLUDE BUZZWORD INFO

As Buzzword is built using React, we recommend react-big-calendar (npm - not managed by Calendly) as an excellent choice for showcasing the rendering of user busy times and availability in a calendar format.

You’ll want to manipulate the events array with your “available” and “busy” objects

• For “available” times, you can create an object like:

{

       start: moment({ hours: 22 }).toDate(),

       end: moment({ hours: 23 }).toDate(),

       title: "Available"

}

• For “busy” times, you can create an object like:

{

       start: moment({ hours: 13 }).toDate(),

       end: moment({ hours: 14 }).toDate(),

       title: "Unavailable"

}

Things to note:

• When handling a user's availability rule, it can be either for a specific date or a particular day of the week. 

  • To handle this, we suggest creating a separate object with weekday keys (e.g., Monday-Sunday) and corresponding start time and end time values. 

  • You can use this separate object to extract the necessary information and create your "available" object in the events array. 

  • The implementation approach for this is flexible and can be customized according to your requirements.

• The user's collection of busy times consists of busy ranges represented by start and end times in UTC ISO-8601 format, organized by date. 

  • Once again, we suggest creating an additional object with weekday keys and corresponding start and end time values. 

  • This object can then be used to extract the necessary information and create the separate "busy" object in the events array. 

  • Again, the specific implementation details can be tailored to your preferences and requirements.

• For an examples of the objects directly above, see components/userBusyTimes.jsx in the Buzzword repo