Drag to book on the calendar

Create a booking by selecting the time range directly on the calendar grid.

Before you start

• You must be a member or admin. Viewers cannot book: for a viewer the calendar does not respond to the gesture and shows no hint about it.
• You need to be on the syndicate Calendar tab, in Month, Week, or Day view.
• On a syndicate with more than one aircraft, set the Filter by aircraft control above the grid before you drag. In Month and Week view that filter decides which aircraft you book, and the dialog shows it as a read-only label you cannot change. Day view is different: it gives each aircraft its own row, so you drag on the row you want.

Steps on the web

1. Open the Calendar tab.
2. Switch to Week or Day view for an hourly grid, or stay on Month for a day-level grid.
3. Click and drag from the start time to the end time and release. The grid highlights the range as you drag.
4. When you release, the create-booking dialog opens pre-filled with your dragged range.
5. Adjust the times if you need to and tap Create. The rest of the flow is the same as Create a booking.

Desktop

Mobile

The image is from a single-aircraft syndicate, so there is no Filter by aircraft control above the grid: Syndik8 hides it when there is nothing to choose between. If your syndicate has two or more aircraft it sits above the grid, and the point in Before you start about setting it first applies.

Steps on iOS and Android

1. Open the Calendar tab.
2. Switch to Week or Day view.
3. Long-press on the start time until the grid marks it, then (without lifting your finger) drag to the end time and release.
4. When you release, the create-booking dialog opens pre-filled with your dragged range.
5. Adjust the times and tap Create.

On Month view, the gestures differ between mobile and web:

• On iOS and Android, long-press a single day to book it, or long-press and then drag across the days you need. Without the long-press, a horizontal drag pages between months and a vertical drag scrolls when the calendar needs more space.
• On the web, use a mouse to click and drag across the days you need, or double-click a single day. On a touch screen, drag horizontally to page between months; long-press and drag to select booking days.

If it goes wrong

• You see “This time conflicts with an existing booking”: you dragged across a time someone has a confirmed booking for. Release on a free slot instead. Pending, suspended and tentative bookings don’t stop the dialog opening; the dialog then tells you if the kind of booking you choose can’t go there. Admins are never stopped here, so they can schedule maintenance over member bookings.
• The dialog shows the wrong aircraft, or shows “Unknown”: opened from the calendar, the Asset field is a read-only label, so there is no dropdown to correct it with. Close the dialog, set the Filter by aircraft control (Month and Week view) or drag on the right aircraft’s row (Day view), then drag again.
• Nothing happens on a long press: on mobile, keep holding for about half a second before starting to drag. A quick tap doesn’t trigger the gesture.

See also

• Create a booking
• Calendar views and time scales
• Booking modes