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Get fullcalendar business-hours on resize events

I have implemented full calendar to maintain some events. Now the fullcalendar is implemented with some default business hours. Lets say I have set business hours from 10:00 to 17:00 hours.
Now I am creating the event from 15:30 to 16:30 hours. Now I when I resize the event and stretch it and end it to 17:30, which is out of the business hours, I want it to revert the changes.
Following is how I have initialised the fullcalendar:
$('#calendar').fullCalendar({
header: {
left: '',
center: '',
right: '',
},
firstDay: 0,
editable: true,
selectable: true,
defaultView: 'agendaWeek',
columnFormat: 'dddd',
events: events_data,
eventResize: function(event, delta, revertFunc) {
console.log($(this).businessHours);
}
});

In your eventResize function, you can check the event parameter and check the input.
function isBusinessHour(event) {
// Check if your event.start and event.end is in business hours
// Using moment functions such as isBetween()
}
eventResize: function(event, delta, revertFunc) {
if (!isBusinessHour(event))
revertFunc();
}

To achieve this you can set the "eventConstraint" option to "businessHours":
eventConstraint: "businessHours"
The documentation for this setting says:
If "businessHours" is given, events being dragged or resized must be
fully contained within the week’s business hours (Monday-Friday
9am-5pm by default). A custom businessHours value will be respected.
See https://fullcalendar.io/docs/eventConstraint for more details.

It does not work, even with the version 4.
You need to compare values for event and those of business Hours:`
eventDrop: function(info) {
var format = 'HH:mm';
// get moment as time:min only
var ies = moment(info.event.start);
var tes = ies.hours()+':'+ies.minutes();
var event_start = moment(tes,format);
var iee = moment(info.event.end);
var tee = iee.hours()+':'+iee.minutes();
var event_end = moment(tee,format);
// get business hours
var bh_start = moment(calendar.getOption('businessHours')['startTime'],format);
var bh_end = moment(calendar.getOption('businessHours')['endTime'],format);
if ( event_start.isBefore( bh_start ) || event_end.isAfter( bh_end )) {
console.log(' out of busqiness hours');
info.revert();
return false;
}
}

Creating Multiple Day Event in Fullcalendar

I am trying to create a calendar application by using fullcalendar. But I have a specific problem.
I want to create an event that last -for example- for 5 days. When I click and drag the newly-created-event, fullcalendar present me something like that:
Mouse click started at 08th Oct 08:00 and mouse click ended at 12th Oct 12:00. The event included all hours between 08th Oct 08:00 and 12th Oct 12:00. This means I have to participate an event that last for 96 hours. You can't expect me to participate a meeting for five-days-long, right?
So, what I actually want is the event should start at 08:00 and end at 12:00 for all five days. Which means the event should be appear like this:
I did it by creating all events one by one. But in my application, I disabled adding two or more events at once for various reasons. Also, I want my customers to be able to create an event like that at once.
Is there any way to do this in fullcalendar?
Here is my code:
function initCalendar {
if (!jQuery().fullCalendar) {
return;
}
var date = new Date(),
started,
ended
var header = {};
var calendar = $('#calendar').fullCalendar({
allDaySlot: false,
eventOverlap: false,
selectOvetlap: false,
header: header,
selectable: true,
selectHelper: true,
defaultView: 'agendaWeek',
select: function (start, end, allDay) {
$('#fc_create').click();
var dateStart = start;
var dateEnd = end;
$(".antosubmit").on("click", function() {
var title = $("#reservation-title").val();
if (title) {
var event = {
//minTime: "08:00:00"
//maxTime: "21:00:00"
editable: true,
title: title,
start: dateStart,
end: dateEnd,
allDay: false
}
calendar.fullCalendar('renderEvent', event, true);
calendar.fullCalendar('unselect');
#('.antoclose').click();
return false;
}
else {
////alert here
}
})
},
eventClick: function (calEvent, jsEvent, view)
{
var selectedEditable = calEvent.editable;
if (selectedEditable) {
$('fc_create').click();
$("#reservation-title").val(calEvent.title);
$(.antoUpdate).on("click", function() {
var title = $("#reservation-title").val();
if (title) {
calEvent.title = $("#reservation-title").val();
#('.antoclose').click();
}
else {
////alert here
}
});
}
else
{
$('fc_edit').click();
$("#title2").val(calEvent.title);
}
calendar.fullCalendar('unselect');
},
events: [{
////add events here...
}]
})
}

FullCalendar : Ignore events during select

I've created a monthly calendar using fullCalendar month view.
On my calendar, I've displayed only one event per day. This event is used to display user's status (available, not available, busy...)
Because I'll always have 1 event per day, I've set eventLimit to true to avoid multiple events and because this event is about the entire day, I've also set editable to false to prevent events' drag & drop .
Here is my code:
$('#calendar').fullCalendar({
editable: false, // Prevent event drag & drop
events: '/json/calendar', // Get all events using a json feed
selectable: true,
eventLimit: true, // Only 1 event per day
header: {
left: 'prev,next',
center: 'title',
right: 'today'
},
select: function(start, end) {
window.location.hash = '#oModal-calendar'; // Display some popup with a form
end.subtract(1, 'days');
$('#checkboxButton').data('start', start);
$('#checkboxButton').data('end', end);
$('#calendar').fullCalendar('unselect');
}
});
I want my user to be able to select days directly from the calendar so I've set selectable: true in the calendar's option. However, I've got many feedback that "it didn't worked".
After some investigation, I found that users often click on the event block instead of the day.
Because events are draggable by default, a click on an event doesn't trigger the select and because I've set editable to false it doesn't do anything anymore.
This combination leads my users to think that there is a bug.
I would like the fullCalendar select to work like there was no event on the calendar. How can I achieve this behavior ?
Edit: here is a jsfiddle based on full calendar example and my code

I finally found the solution.
FullCalendar event's click is bind to the css class fc-day-grid-event.
It's possible to simply ignore it with one css line pointer-events: none;.
.fc-day-grid-event {
pointer-events: none;
}
Here is the Jsfiddle updated.

One way to do this would be to allow the user to click on event's through the eventClick callback, but when they click on them trigger the "select" function through FullCalendar's API $('#calendar').fullCalendar('select', start, end).
I updated your jsfiddle example with the relevant code.
HTML
<div id="calendar"></div>
Javascript
$('#calendar').fullCalendar({
editable: false, // Prevent event drag & drop
defaultDate: '2015-02-12',
events: [{
title: 'All Day Event',
start: '2015-02-01'
}, {
title: 'Lunch',
start: '2015-02-12T12:00:00'
}],
selectable: true,
eventLimit: true, // Only 1 event per day
header: {
left: 'prev,next',
center: 'title',
right: 'today'
},
select: function (start, end) {
var title = prompt('Event Title:');
var eventData;
if (title) {
eventData = {
title: title,
start: start,
end: end
};
$('#calendar').fullCalendar('renderEvent', eventData, true); // stick? = true
}
$('#calendar').fullCalendar('unselect');
},
eventClick: function(calEvent, jsEvent, view) {
var start = calEvent.start;
var end = calEvent.end;
$('#calendar').fullCalendar('select', start, end);
}
});

Fullcalendar does not Re-render Events when calendar is not visible

I am trying to update my calendar (fullcalendar.js) dynamically, however it is not rerendering the events when the calendar is not visible. I'm also using javascript tabs in my web app so by 'not visible' I mean that it is on a different tab. I've set up a jsfiddle to demonstrate the behavior:
http://jsfiddle.net/35kU5/10/
If you click the Add button while you are on the tab that contains the calendar, the events will be added and immediately visible.
However, if you click the Add button while you are on the second (empty) tab, then switch back to the first tab with the calendar, the 'added' events are not there until you force the calendar to repaint them by some action such as switching the view from week to month, or switching days/weeks/months, then going back.
I've tried the
$("#calendar").fullcalendar('refetchEvents');
$("#calendar").fullcalendar('rerenderEvents');
methods, neither of these solve the issue....Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong here? Or is this simply not possible?

Please see the Adam Shaw's full calendar selectable demo. It shows that new events will be added by selecting the date.
The full calendar starts with this code which includes the select event. I use ColdFusion and this is how I retrieve data from my database server:
$myCalendar = $('#myCalendar').fullCalendar({
header: {
left: 'prev,next today',
center: 'title',
right: ''
},
theme: true,
selectable: true,
selectHelper: true,
height: 500,
events:'events.cfc?method=getevents',
select: function(start, end, allDay) {
alert('select function chosen');
// set the dialog date to the date selected on the calendar
// commented out the dates below when we changed to datetimepicker
// $('#eventStart').val(start);
// $('#eventEnd').val(end);
// added the info below to support the datetimepicker
$('#eventStart').datetimepicker("setDate", new Date(start));
$('#eventEnd').datetimepicker("setDate", new Date(end));
//clear out the contents of the event title and the event id
$('#eventTitle').val('');
$('#ID').val('');
//default the value of all day to halfday value 1,
all day is valued at 2
$('#eventallday').val(1);
$('#calEventDialog').dialog('open');
},...........
Here is the code I use for the select function. This is placed at the bottom of my js code. I reference additional fields you may not use.
var title = $('#eventTitle');
var start = $('#eventStart');
var end = $('#eventEnd');
$('#calEventDialog').dialog({
resizable: false,
autoOpen: false,
title: 'Add Event',
width: 400,
buttons: {
Save: function() {
if ($('input:radio[name=allday]:checked').val() == "1") {
eventClass = "gbcs-halfday-event";
color = "#9E6320";
end.val(start.val());
}
else {
eventClass = "gbcs-allday-event";
color = "#875DA8";
}
if (title.val() !== '') {
$myCalendar.fullCalendar('renderEvent', {
title: title.val(),
start: start.val(),
end: end.val(),
allDay: true,
className: eventClass,
color: color
}, true // make the event "stick"
);
$('calendar').fullCalendar('renderEvent', {
title: ($("#eventTitle").val()),
start: ($("#eventStart").val()),
end:($("#eventEnd").val()),
allDay: ($("#allday").val()),
color:($("background-Color").val())
}, true // make the event "stick"
);
$.ajax({
url: 'events.cfc?method=add_events',
data: 'title='+ ($("#eventTitle").val())+
'&start='+ ($("#eventStart").val()) +'
&end='+ ($("#eventEnd").val()) +
'&id='+ 0 ,
type: "POST",
success: function(json) {
alert('Updated Successfully');
}
})
}
$myCalendar.fullCalendar('unselect');
$(this).dialog('close');
},
Cancel: function() {
$(this).dialog('close');
}
}
});
});// JavaScript Document
I hope this points you in the right direction. Thanks for posting your question. You showed me how to use tabs!.

How to set full calendar to a specific start date when it's initialized for the 1st time?

I would like to set the initial month to an arbitrary month when I call the function to display the calendar.
Say for example the user selects a date last june (June 2011) somewhere else and I want fullcalendar to show up with a month display of April before (April 2010). And yes, this is just to make a case, not to make sense ;-) )
I tried to call 'gotodate' before I then subsequently call the display function but this doesn't seem to work
$('#calendar').fullCalendar( 'gotoDate', currentdate);
$('#calendar').fullCalendar({
header: {left: 'prevYear,prev,today,next,nextYear',
center: 'title', right: 'month,basicWeek,basicDay' etc...}
Could someone eventually please provide an example how to do this properly?

You should use the options 'year', 'month', and 'date' when initializing to specify the initial date value used by fullcalendar:
$('#calendar').fullCalendar({
year: 2012,
month: 4,
date: 25
}); // This will initialize for May 25th, 2012.
See the function setYMD(date,y,m,d) in the fullcalendar.js file; note that the JavaScript setMonth, setDate, and setFullYear functions are used, so your month value needs to be 0-based (Jan is 0).
UPDATE: As others have noted in the comments, the correct way now (V3 as of writing this edit) is to initialize the defaultDate property to a value that is
anything the Moment constructor accepts, including an ISO8601 date
string like "2014-02-01"
as it uses Moment.js. Documentation here.
Updated example:
$('#calendar').fullCalendar({
defaultDate: "2012-05-25"
}); // This will initialize for May 25th, 2012.
UPDATE: in the V5, defaultDate parameter has been renamed to initialDate.

You have it backwards. Display the calendar first, and then call gotoDate.
$('#calendar').fullCalendar({
// Options
});
$('#calendar').fullCalendar('gotoDate', currentDate);

As per machineAddict's comment, as of version 2 and later, year, month and day have been replaced by defaultDate, which is a Moment, supporting constructors such as an ISO 8601 date string or a Unix Epoch.
So e.g. to initialize the calendar with a given date:
$('#calendar').fullCalendar({
defaultDate: moment('2014-09-01'),
...
});

You can just pass a Date object:
For current date:
$('#calendar').fullCalendar({
defaultDate: new Date()
});
For specific date '2016-05-20':
$('#calendar').fullCalendar({
defaultDate: new Date(2016, 4, 20)
});

For v5 please use initialDate instead of defaultDate. Simply renamed option
eg
var calendarEl = document.getElementById('calendar');
var calendar = new FullCalendar.Calendar(calendarEl, {
...
initialDate: '2020-09-02',
...
});

I've had better luck with calling the gotoDate in the viewRender callback:
$('#calendar').fullCalendar({
firstDay: 0,
defaultView: 'basicWeek',
header: {
left: '',
center: 'basicDay,basicWeek,month',
right: 'today prev,next'
},
viewRender: function(view, element) {
$('#calendar').fullCalendar( 'gotoDate', 2014, 4, 24 );
}
});
Calling gotoDate outside of the callback didn't have the expected results due to a race condition.

In version 2.1.1 this works :
$('#calendar').fullCalendar({
// your calendar settings...
});
$('#calendar').fullCalendar('gotoDate', '2014-05-01');
Documentation about moment time/date format : http://fullcalendar.io/docs/utilities/Moment/
Documentation about the upgrades in version 2 : https://github.com/arshaw/fullcalendar/wiki/Upgrading-to-v2

This can be used in v5.3.2 to goto a date after initialization
calendar.gotoDate( '2020-09-12' );
eg on datepicker change
var calendarEl = document.getElementById('calendar');
var calendar = new FullCalendar.Calendar(calendarEl, {
...
initialDate: '2020-09-02',
...
});
$(".date-picker").change(function(){
var date = $(this).val();
calendar.gotoDate( date );
});

If you don't want to load the calendar twice and you don't have a version where defaultDate is implemented, do the following:
Change the following method:
function Calendar(element, options, eventSources) {
...
var date = new Date();
...
}
to:
function Calendar(element, options, eventSources) {
...
var date = options.defaultDate ? options.defaultDate : new Date();
...
}

document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function () {
var calendarEl = document.getElementById('calendar');
var calendar = new FullCalendar.Calendar(calendarEl, {
headerToolbar: {
left: 'prev,next today',
center: 'title',
right: 'dayGridMonth,timeGridWeek,timeGridDay,listWeek'
},
initialView: 'dayGridMonth',
initialDate: '2020-09-12',
navLinks: true, // can click day/week names to navigate views
selectable: true,
nowIndicator: true,
dayMaxEvents: true, // allow "more" link when too many events
editable: true,
selectable: true,
businessHours: true,
dayMaxEvents: true, // allow "more" link when too many events
events: [{
title: 'All Day Event',
start: '2020-09-01',
}]
});
calendar.render();
});
Just simply add that particular date to initialDate key.