Restricted Hours And Dates

11 Aug 20173 minutes to read

You can restrict the timeslots and certain month cells using NonAccessibleBlocks and BlackOutDates properties in the respective view settings of schedule.

Non-Accessible blocks

Day View

You can restrict/allocate certain timeslot as non-accessible block using NonAccessibleBlocks of DayViewSettings, so that you can allocate those timeslots for predefined events/activities like Lunch hour.

C#

//creating new instance for schedule
	SfSchedule schedule = new SfSchedule(this);
	
	//setting schedule view
	schedule.ScheduleView = ScheduleView.DayView;

	//setting non-accessing blocks.
	NonAccessibleBlocksCollection nonAccessibleBlocksCollection = new NonAccessibleBlocksCollection();
	NonAccessibleBlock lunchHour = new NonAccessibleBlock();
	lunchHour.StartTime=13;
	lunchHour.EndTime=14;
	lunchHour.Color=Color.Black;
	lunchHour.Text="LUNCH";
	nonAccessibleBlocksCollection.Add(lunchHour);
	dayViewSettings.NonAccessibleBlocks=nonAccessibleBlocksCollection;
	schedule.DayViewSettings=dayViewSettings;

	// Set our view from the "main" layout resource
	SetContentView(schedule);

Week View

You can restrict/allocate certain timeslot as non-accessible block using NonAccessibleBlocks of WeekViewSettings, so that you can allocate those timeslots for predefined events/activities like Lunch hour.

C#

//creating new instance for schedule
	schedule = new SfSchedule(this);

	//setting schedule view
	schedule.ScheduleView = ScheduleView.WeekView;

	//setting non-accessing blocks.
	NonAccessibleBlocksCollection nonAccessibleBlocksCollection = new NonAccessibleBlocksCollection();
	NonAccessibleBlock lunchHour = new NonAccessibleBlock();
	lunchHour.StartTime=13;
	lunchHour.EndTime=14;
	lunchHour.Color=Color.Black;
	lunchHour.Text="LUNCH";
	nonAccessibleBlocksCollection.Add(lunchHour);
	weekViewSettings.NonAccessibleBlocks = nonAccessibleBlocksCollection;

	schedule.WeekViewSettings = weekViewSettings;

	// Set our view from the "main" layout resource
	SetContentView(schedule);

WorkWeek View

You can restrict/allocate certain timeslot as non-accessible block using NonAccessibleBlocks of WorkWeekViewSettings, so that you can allocate those timeslots for predefined events/activities like Lunch hour.

C#

//creating new instance for schedule
	schedule = new SfSchedule(this);

	//setting schedule view
	schedule.ScheduleView = ScheduleView.WorkWeekView;

	//setting non-accessing blocks.
	NonAccessibleBlocksCollection nonAccessibleBlocksCollection = new NonAccessibleBlocksCollection();
	NonAccessibleBlock lunchHour = new NonAccessibleBlock();
	lunchHour.StartTime=13;
	lunchHour.EndTime=14;
	lunchHour.Color=Color.Black;
	lunchHour.Text="LUNCH";
	nonAccessibleBlocksCollection.Add(lunchHour);
	workWeekViewSettings.NonAccessibleBlocks = nonAccessibleBlocksCollection;

	schedule.WorkWeekViewSettings = workWeekViewSettings;

	// Set our view from the "main" layout resource
	SetContentView(schedule);

Blackout Dates

You can restrict/allocate certain month cell as blackout days using BlackoutDates of MonthViewSettings, so that we can allocate those cells for predefined events/activities like Scheduled maintenance, planned leave etc.

C#

//creating new instance for schedule
	schedule = new SfSchedule(this);

	//setting schedule view
	schedule.ScheduleView = ScheduleView.MonthView;

	//setting month view settings properties
	MonthViewSettings monthViewSettings = new MonthViewSettings();

	//setting black out dates
	List<Calendar> blackDatesCollection = new List<Calendar>();
	Calendar currentDate = Calendar.Instance;
	Calendar firstDate = (Calendar)currentDate.Clone();
	firstDate.Set(
	currentDate.Get(CalendarField.Year),
	currentDate.Get(CalendarField.Month),
	21// currentDate.Get(CalendarField.DayOfMonth),
	);
	blackDatesCollection.Add(firstDate);
	Calendar secondDate = (Calendar)currentDate.Clone();
	secondDate.Set(
	currentDate.Get(CalendarField.Year),
	currentDate.Get(CalendarField.Month), 22
	);
	blackDatesCollection.Add(secondDate);
	Calendar thirdDate = (Calendar)currentDate.Clone();
	thirdDate.Set(
	currentDate.Get(CalendarField.Year),
	currentDate.Get(CalendarField.Month),
	23
	);
	blackDatesCollection.Add(thirdDate);
	monthViewSettings.BlackoutDates = blackDatesCollection;

	schedule.MonthViewSettings = monthViewSettings;

	// Set our view from the "main" layout resource
	SetContentView(schedule);