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Calendar control; showing only busniess hours
Answered: The MVC Lite (open-source) version is no longer under active development. I recommend switching to the JavaScript Lite version. The JavaScript version lets you set the Calendar height to show only bu...
How to Select multiple events using Click
Answered: You can use the API to modify the behavior: Add an onEventClick handler and use multiselect.add() to add the event to the selection.
Part Time employees
Answered: You can mark specified days as disabled using onBeforeCellRender in the Scheduler component. This method is used in the tutorial to disable weekends: onBeforeCellRender: (args) => {
const day = ar...
Mutliselection
Answered: I’m not sure if that’s what you mean but in the Calendar component in the Pro version, it is possible to select multiple events and then delete them using the API (use multiselect.events() to get a l...
How to add style to cells
Answered: In the Pro version, you can use the onBeforeCellRender event handler to customize the calendar cells - you can add custom CSS class to selected cells or modify the appearance directly. Unfortunately,...
Keyboard navigation error (reading 'lines')
Answered: This issue should be fixed now in the latest sandbox build (2023.4.5851). Please let me know if there is any problem.
Custom onTimeRangeSelecting Start and End selection
Answered: This happens because snap-to-grid is turned on. You will need to turn it off, at least for the time range selection. There is a tutorial that shows how to customize the time range selection in real t...
Strange error on TimeRangeSelected, happening just in the new version.
Answered: This is a regression. It looks like in the Resources view, the latest version returns the column index instead of the resource id. It will be fixed shortly.
Some requests for next release
Answered: The option to turn the snap-to-grid behavior off is already implemented and it is available in the latest release (2023.4.5838). It works for event moving, event resizing and time range selection. On...
Custom css not working after upgrading to dayilot-pro-angular from daypilot-angular-lite.
Answered: The Pro version of the Calendar component may use a slightly different DOM structure, as required by the advanced features. You may need to adjust your CSS customizations a bit. As a general guidelin...
Open menu on calendar header clicked.
Answered: At this moment, there is not built-in property for specifying a context menu for the calendar headers but you can use one of the following options: 1. Use an active area with action: "ContextMenu" an...
Hour indication is not next to the line.
Answered: Sorry for the delay! The header cell is marked with calendar_default_rowheader CSS class which applies overflow: false style to the cell. In order to shift the content (hour label) out of the cell yo...
Width changes makes disaster effect on colum headers.
Answered: In the latest sandbox build (2023.4.5825), the header width is set using CSS. It doesn’t rely on the width detection anymore - that will result in a smooth animation during resizing.
Scheduler - How to switch between dark and light themes
Answered: You can switch the CSS theme using the update() method: dp.update({theme: "my_dark_theme"}); And back: dp.update({theme: "my_light_theme"}); Both theme files need to be included in the page using <li...
Use with ASP.Net Core 6
Answered: Yes, no problem. DayPilot is a purely client-side solution so you can use it with any backend. This example includes a .NET 7 project but you can use the same source code with .NET 6 as well. You jus...
Event not taking full height
Answered: 1. First, check if you use the correct value for the useEventBoxes property (see Exact Event Duration in the docs). The default value ("Always") aligns the event boxes with the grid cells. 2. It coul...
Performance issues on table resize.
Answered: The calendar component doesn’t re-render events when the width changes. The resizing itself is fully handled by the browser (so there is nothing to optimize). Generally, it will take longer if the re...
During one event, I have three areas with four dates in total. Is there a way to move each date to resize the event independently?
Answered: There are two issues: 1. The action property can only have one of the predefined values (see the API docs). A drag handle that triggers resizing must use either "ResizeStart" or "ResizeEnd". 2. The a...
vertical text in the scheduler
Answered: Yes, you can use the writing-mode CSS property: .scheduler_default_event_inner {
writing-mode: vertical-lr;
} or .scheduler_default_event_inner {
writing-mode: vertical-lr;
transform: rotat...
Scheduler - build 5777 broke event rendering
Answered: This happens if you specify both text and html properties for events. This regression incorrectly applies text if both values are specified - the html property should have higher priority. It should ...
Dynamic disabled cells in scheduler
Answered: You can customize the drag-and-drop moving behavior using the onEventMoving event handler. It lets you forbid the drop depending on the source event and the target position.
How to smoothen resize animation?
Answered: Please see my answer here: https://forums.daypilot.org/question/6206/smooth-draganddrop
Cells disabled not working when moving an event
Answered: This was a regression that has been fixed in version 2023.4.5772. Please let me know if the problem persists.
Listen to onEventMoving
Answered: The onEventMoved event is fired when all updates are complete, and it’s fine to use it for updating either the calendar/scheduler itself or external elements. The onEventMoving event is fired in real...
Smooth DragAndDrop
Answered: If you mean the option to turn off 'snap to grid' (as in the Scheduler), this feature is planned and will be introduced in one of the future releases.
Font color for event name
Answered: You can customize the row header using the onBeforeRowHeaderRender event handler.
Daypilot resource forecolor
Answered: You can customize the row header using the onBeforeRowHeaderRender event handler.
OnEventmoving and OnEventMoved drag acts crazy.
Answered: It behaves as if the Calendar component were updated in the middle of the drag-and-drop movement. You can see that the source event (which is marked with calendar_default_event_moving_source CSS clas...
Enhanced keyboard navigation for automatic timerange selection
Answered: > Why don’t select a cell or event when moving the cursor? In Excel when I move my cursor to the next cell, it selected the cell direct and I can edit or add something. OK, let’s see if I understand ...
Strange behavior of keyboard navigation
Answered: This bug should be fixed now in the latest sandbox build (2023.4.5802): https://release.daypilot.org/changes/js/ Please let me know if the problem persists.