I want to create an appointment booking form for an optician. I would like to use the Time Field, but not allow users to choose a time before 9:00am and after 5:30pm for their appointment. Is this possible please?
Iain.
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Limiting "Time Field" to office hours?
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I think you have two options. One would be to perform validation on the entered values to make sure they are not outside the office hours. You would use the gform_validation filter http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_validation to check the entered times and return an error if outside your business hours, or let the submission through if the hours are OK.
The second option would be to use drop downs, and populate them with hours and minutes, or even just one drop down with hours and minutes in 15 minute increments. I don't think people are really looking to make an appointment at 10:08. Maybe 10:15 would be sufficient.
You could create a drop down like this:
9:00am
9:30am
10:00am
10:30am
11:00am
11:30am
12:00pm
12:30pm
etcI like the second option better from a usability standpoint. Will either of these work for you, or is there some other reason you want to use the time field?
Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday January 29, 2013 | Permalink
