Skip the first booking step when only one service and one provider are available.

[dipiana]

Hi,

Is there any way to skip the first page ("Select Service & Provider") when there is only one service and one provider available?
In my case it would confuse customers.
If not - is there any file I can change to make this adaptions myself?

Thanks in advance!

[alextselegidis]

Hi, yes this is a good suggestion!

You can change this behavior by adding some JavaScript in frontend_book.js that will check the number of option during initialization and skip the first page if needed.

The offending dropdowns are the #select-service and #select-provider.

You will just have to make the following ckeck $('#select-service option').length === 1 && $('#select-provider option').length === 2 (providers will always have two options because of the "Any Provider" entry).

Take a look at the book.php view file for further info on the HTML markup.

Pull requests are always welcome :)

Alex Tselegidis, Easy!Appointments Creator   Need a customization? Contact me in person!

[TVBZ]

Hello

Just discovered EasyAppointments today.. Exciting, thumbs up! :)

I have same situation. I want to skip step 1. I have changed the book.php view file but I'm a bit lost in the js part. Can you elaborate where/how to implement the check?

Many thanks!

[alextselegidis]

@TVBZ the frontend_book.js has logic on proceeding with steps (back and forth).

You can find this and tweak so that it ignores the first step.

Alex Tselegidis, Easy!Appointments Creator   Need a customization? Contact me in person!

[jdaviescoates]

Given I'm trying to recreate a Calendly-like experience I would also love to be able to skip the first step.

Another way to achieve the same thing, which I think would be even nicer (and more Calendly-like), would be for people to be able to go domain.tld/user and then get a page that just presents all the services available from the specific user.

[vitormattos]

A suggested solution is:

• Define a unique slug for each service
• Define a unique slug for each customer
• Create a route /<service>/<customer>

This route will not display step 1 of the wizard and start the wizard at step 2.

The creation of the URL at first will be manual.

Solve the need? If so, I can send a pull request by implementing it.

@alextselegidis can I send a PR implementing this?

[vitormattos]

I started the changes by reviewing the unit tests. #1042

[vitormattos]

Updating the progress:

I created another PR implementing test coverage for customers and services #1044

[vitormattos]

Done, closed in #1048

[h-e-l-l-o-w-o-r-l-d]

While this might be a nice addition for some people, I think it's not always wanted. Two reasons:

• It's desirable to see what kind of booking you make an appointment for and who is the provider before you fill the form. step 1 shows it.
• It's desirable to see information about duration and location. step 1 shows it. ;-)

I wouldn't want to have this addition, so I think it should be an option in the settings.