Booking

This guide covers the different aspects of Booking in the MapsIndoors Web SDK. The concept of booking in MapsIndoors implies that specific Locations in your MapsIndoors dataset are treated as bookable resources. Typical bookable resources are meeting rooms and workspaces.

A MapsIndoors dataset can only have bookable resources if an integration with a booking provider exists. Examples of booking providers are Google Calendar and Microsoft Office 365. These providers and more, can be added and integrated to your MapsIndoors solution by request.

The central service in the SDK managing bookings is the Booking Service, mapsindoors.services.BookingService.

  const bookingService = mapsindoors.services.BookingService;

The Booking Service can help with the following tasks:

• List Bookable Locations

• Work with Bookings

  • Listing Bookings for a Location

  • Performing a Booking of a Location

  • Cancelling a Booking of a Location

By default, the BookingService performs anonymous bookings using a service account known to MapsIndoors. However, it is also possible to list, perform and cancel Bookings on behalf of a user.

Bookable Locations​

To determine whether or not a Location is bookable, you can use the bookingService.getBookableLocationsUsingQuery() method. Below is an example of querying for bookable Locations:

  const bookingService = mapsindoors.services.BookingService;
  const start = new Date();
  const end = new Date(start).setHours(start.getHours() + 1);

  const locations = await bookingService.getBookableLocations({
      startTime: start,
      endTime: end
  });

The above example creates a query for Locations that are bookable for a time span between now and 1 hour ahead.

To check if a specific Location is bookable, it is possible to parse the Location object as a parameter to the getBookingsUsingQuery function.

  const bookingService = mapsindoors.services.BookingService;
  const myMeetingRoom = await locationsService.getLocation('0c44207987174561a53fb00a');

  const start = new Date();
  const end = new Date(start).setHours(start.getHours() + 1);

  const bookings = await bookingService.getBookingsUsingQuery({
      location: myMeetingRoom,
      startTime: start,
      endTime: end
  });

Bookings​

A booking is a time-boxed event model referring to the resource being booked and the users participating in the booked event.

Listing Bookings for a Location

Before trying to book a Location for a given time, it is convenient to know in advance, whether or not the Location is already booked for the given time.

It is possible to get a list of bookings using the bookingService.getBookableLocationsUsingQuery() method.

  const bookingService = mapsindoors.services.BookingService;
  const myMeetingRoom = await locationsService.getLocation('0c44207987174561a53fb00a');
  const start = new Date().setHours(new Date().getHours() -1);
  const end = new Date(start).setHours(start.getHours() + 24);

  const bookings = await bookingService.getBookingsUsingQuery({
    location: myMeetingRoom,
    startTime: start,
    endTime: end
  });
}

The above example creates a query for bookings that exist for a location with timespan between 1 hour ago and 24 hours ahead.

Performing a Booking of a Location

It is possible to execute a booking creation request using the bookingService.performBooking() method, which takes a booking object as input. If the booking is successfully performed, the booking will return in the block, with an assigned bookingId.

  const bookingService = mapsindoors.services.BookingService;
  const start = new Date();
  const end = new Date(start).setHours(start.getHours() + 1);
  const bookingRequest = new bookingService.MPBooking({
    locationId: '0c44207987174561a53fb00a',
    title: 'Meeting',
    description: 'Meeting description',
    participants: ["[e-mail]"],
    startTime: start,
    endTime: end
  });

  const myBooking = await bookingService.performBooking(bookingRequest);

In the above example a Booking object is created and several properties are assigned:

• The ID of related Location object

• A title for the booking

• A description for the booking

• Participants for the Event being created through the booking

• Start and end time

Depending on the booking provider, the participants will receive invites for an event created by this booking request.

Cancelling a Booking of a Location

It is possible to cancel a created Booking using the bookingService.cancelBooking() method, which takes an existing Booking object as input.

  const bookingService = mapsindoors.services.BookingService;
  const myMeetingRoom = await locationsService.getLocation('0c44207987174561a53fb00a');

  const start = new Date();
  const end = new Date(start).setHours(start.getHours() + 1);

  const bookings = await bookingService.getBookingsUsingQuery({
      location: myMeetingRoom,
      startTime: start,
      endTime: end
  });

  if(bookings.length > 0) {
    await bookingService.cancelBooking(bookings[0]);
  }