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Excuse me for posting this in this sub forum, I'm still on a trial version testing things out to see if Bryntum Calendar can work for me and I can't post in the Calendar forums anymore. Maybe someone can move this topic to the Calendar sub forum? Thanks.

I would like to know if I can set a default start time and end time for an event that is created by double clicking in the Month view or Agenda view. By default, the start time is 08:00 and the end time 09:00, but I would -for example- like to set it to 13:00:

Can this be done with the onEventCreated function?
Calendar doesn't seem to have a listener for beforeEventEditShow like Scheduler does (according to the docs at least), and also I would only want this for NEW events (not when editing another event that already has a set starttime/endtime).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Each mode (child view) of a Calendar has this config option: https://www.bryntum.com/docs/calendar/api/Calendar/widget/mixin/CalendarMixin#config-autoCreate

To set common configurations for all modes in a Calendar, use this property on the Calendar: https://www.bryntum.com/docs/calendar/api/Calendar/view/Calendar#config-modeDefaults

So configure your Calendar with this:

    modeDefaults : {
        autoCreate : {
            startHour : 13
        }
    }

Thanks for the quick response!

I have:

modes : {
  month: { 
    autoCreate : {
      startHour: 9,
      duration: '1 hour'
    }
  }
}

But this doesn't seem to work.
What am I doing wrong?

And can I also set the start time to half hours, i.e 9.30? Would I have to do 9.5 for that?

I also tried

modeDefaults : {
        autoCreate : {
            startHour : 13
        }
    }

I put this in the main calendar code, i.e. after the features {} segment.

Is that OK?

Update:

I did it without the modeDefaults part, so I just put autoCreate in the main config part (next to features, sidebar, listeners, etc) and now it works!

Thanks for the help anyways!

The only thing that doesn't work yet is the half hour part:

autoCreate : {
      startHour : '13.5'
    },

With or without quotes, a new event is created at 13:00, not 13:30, even though the docs say:

This is the hour of the day to start the event at. It may be fractional.

Yes, I forgot, we import the autoCreate setting from the calendar into the views by default.

Non fractional startHour is a bug. The code tries to set it, but the underlying date utility doesn't accept fractional hours

It asks for

DateHelper.set(dateStart, 'hour', autoCreate.startHour);

But DateHelper doesn't cooperate. I will have to make it convert the hour to second and use

DateHelper.set(dateStart, 'second', autoCreate.startHour * 60 * 60);

Here is the ticket for this issue: https://github.com/bryntum/support/issues/4597

Thanks again for the response!

For a work-around, is there any way to programmatically set the starting time (hours and minutes) of an event under certain conditions?

E.g. if I change my resource combo menu value, can I automatically change the value of the starting time depending on the resourceId that's selected?

Something like (I don't know the exact correct syntax yet):

listeners:{
 change(record){ 
  // something like:
  if (record.resourceId==1){
    record.startTime= Date(something to set the time to 13:30...);
  }
 }
}

In Scheduler I managed to get something similar working, but in Calendar I couldn't get it to work...

You can listen for this event, and mutate the eventRecord as you see fit: https://www.bryntum.com/docs/calendar/api/Calendar/view/Calendar#event-eventAutoCreated

Remember that if you dblclick in a DayView or WeekView, start time is included in the gesture (The user will click on the time required, and the autoCreate.step will snap it to a boundary), so probably do not intervene if activeView.isDayView (A WeekView is a DayView, but with 7 days)