Reservation table - Column width

arielgrin · Post by **arielgrin** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:58 pm

Hi: Is there any way to fix the column's width so they would be aligned? The day columns are wider than the appartment columns, so it is difficult to find the reservation days for the appartment.

I'm using PHPR 1.0.1 and the columns get distorted in both IE6 and Firefox 2.0.0.14

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gonesouth · Post by **gonesouth** » Fri May 02, 2008 2:18 pm

When preparing the 'Indicative Availability Calendar' template there are settings, one of which is:

Align availability with arrival date? YES NO

YES solves your problem

arielgrin · Post by **arielgrin** » Mon May 12, 2008 3:30 pm

Gonesouth: thanks for your reply. I think I didn't explore the software enough, as I can't find that template. Can you guide me finding that? Anyway, you mention that a template must be prepared, but I was refering to the already available reservation calendar that you get immediately after installing PHP-Residence. This is the calendar you get after clicking on the "TABLES: RESERVATIONS" link at the top of the page. Thanks again for your help.

arielgrin · Post by **arielgrin** » Mon May 12, 2008 4:31 pm

Gonesouth: I made a mistake in my previous reply. I meant the link "TABLES: MAY"

The calendar with the reservations I get after clicking the link with the current month is the one that is misaligned.

gonesouth · Post by **gonesouth** » Mon May 12, 2008 6:18 pm

arielgrin,

If you think of the line as being noon on the day in question, you will realize that Marco has made a more exact representation of the time a customer inhabits a unit than we normally think about. He shows a customer arriving on the 2nd and departing the 4th as having the unit from 12 noon on the 2nd to 12 noon on the 4th.

When you build your templates to appear to the public, the setting I mentioned allows you to have it this way or the way you want.

Jim

arielgrin · Post by **arielgrin** » Fri May 16, 2008 3:31 pm

Thanks again for your reply Gonesouth. I'm not yet deploying the client web pages. I'm interested in the user web pages first. I understand what you say about noon and so, but as I am not an expert on php, I just wanted to know if someone knows how to modify that page, to align the arrival date columns, to the reservation details cells. I will not be taking care of templates in the short term, at least not until making it usable for the manager of the hostel. Thanks again, and if you have any suggestion on how to fix this, I would appreciate you share it with me.

gonesouth · Post by **gonesouth** » Mon May 19, 2008 1:26 pm

I guess that's what I'm trying to explain, if you aren't even to the stage of building the tempolates, you don't "need' to fix it yet! No?

arielgrin · Post by **arielgrin** » Tue May 20, 2008 6:16 am

You are right. But the page I'm trying to fix is not a template, but the reservation table you get when clicking in the month link in the administration site, not in the frontend, I don't know if I'm making myself clear. You can see what I mean if you click in the demo page here, where the reservation table image is.

arielgrin · Post by **arielgrin** » Tue May 20, 2008 6:59 am

The PHP page I'm trying to modify is tabella.php

Maybe that helps to clarify what I'm trying to do

arielgrin · Post by **arielgrin** » Tue May 20, 2008 7:33 am

I've been modifying the tabella.php page and found that if I set colspan to 0 where it say colspan=2, I get what I want,but when there is no reservation. If there is a reservation, this modification messes the columns. Maybe this helps a little more to clarify what I want to do

gonesouth · Post by **gonesouth** » Tue May 20, 2008 12:28 pm

Arielgrin, I understand what you're trying to do. But to me the principal benefit of the program is the online reservation feature which is implemented through the templates. My experience is that once you are using the program daily you won't look at that screen any more than once a week.

So, to me you seem like someone obsessing over landscaping when the house isn't even designed yet. I can't figure out why you would put this effort into something that won't matter in 2 days.

arielgrin · Post by **arielgrin** » Tue May 20, 2008 2:07 pm

I want to use it as an administration software, i'm not that interested right now that possible customers can book their own reservation online, but rather that I can administer my property, that's why I'm trying to fix that. I'll keep trying, I hope I find the way, thanks anyway, I really apreciate your help

gonesouth · Post by **gonesouth** » Tue May 20, 2008 2:31 pm

I understand, but I wonder if there's another way around it. I have made up a second availability template showing the number of rooms of each type available which staff use to check what is available. That might work for you as well, depending how you will use that screen. I should point out that we still use the online part to enter reservations from the office, it just works better!

Post by **marco** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 4:55 pm

If you upgrade to version 1.1 there's a new option for this in "configure and customize", but my advice is leaving it this way because it is clearer to see when the guest is arriving/leaving.

Marco