Request for more flexibility in 'custom hours' option in availability tab

[MinosChatzidakis]

Hi there,
I noticed that in the availability tab, when someone wishes to add custom hours for a specific day, they don't have the option to add several blocks of availability hours the same way they can in the Weekly Hours section of the page.

That limits flexibility. For instance, someone might have a doctor's appointment in the middle of their working day. So they would temporarily leave and then come back, ready to accept meetings. In my opinion, they would rightfully expect this option to account for that.

I suspect this is not something hard to implement, given that the same exact functionality already exists, and the infrastructure to support it is likely already in place.

Thanks for the consideration.

[ovizii]

I'm not quite sure I understand but if this is the case:

For instance, someone might have a doctor's appointment in the middle of their working day.

Schedule it in your calendar and calnode won't offer if for bookings? Or am I missing soemthing?

[shockalotti]

Fair request, and the inconsistency you point at is real — Weekly Hours allows multiple blocks per day, custom-hours-for-a-date allows one. A mid-day appointment you leave for and come back from is exactly the case that breaks with a single block.

@ovizii — your workaround works today (block it on the connected calendar and Calnode stays out of the way), but it should not be required for something this basic. The date override should accept the same block list the weekly editor does.

Tracked as #95. Thanks for the clear repro.

[ovizii]

TBH I don't see any point in the option of "custom hours for a specific day" - calnode should do bookings, per the connected calendar. If we need to block certain hours on specific days, why not just do that via our calendars? Like just block 2h in your calendar with your doctor's appointment?
Or if I wake up feeling bad, I'll just block 4h in my calendar with a note of "Out of office" and that is it. calnode picks it up and offers no bookings in that slot, and my teammates I share my calendar with will also benefit. What is the point of manually entering this info in calnode?

Anyway, just those are just my 2 cents on this subject.

[shockalotti]

@ovizii You've got a point on blocking - if you want to kill two hours for a doctor's appointment, put it in your calendar. Everyone you share it with sees it, nothing to enter twice.

Custom hours are for the opposite direction: opening time your weekly hours say is closed. A Saturday you don't normally work, a Friday you run late. A calendar block can only take time away, it can't add it back. That's the gap overrides fill.

So yeah: blocking time off goes in the calendar, opening weird hours goes in the override. Multi-block just means both get the same editor instead of one being stuck at a single block.