In this episode, we focus on adding employees to available time slots based on their schedule. The first step is to get the availability for each employee for the service we're working on. We're not worrying yet about booked appointments or filtering out empty slots—just the basics of matching employees with slots.
You'll see how we grab each employee's availability and then, for every period they're available, we check the slots for those days to see where they could work. If the slot falls within an employee's available period, we add them to the slot. We walk through how to do this programmatically by iterating over employees, their periods, and then the slots. We also handle making sure we're modifying the slot list properly as we go.
Along the way, we test everything out, check how it works with multiple employees (including adding a new one to the database), and confirm that each slot ends up with the right list of available employees. By the end of this demo, the basic mechanism for linking employees to their available time slots is all set up.
Next up, we’ll tackle filtering out slots that have no available employees and start considering appointments that are already booked.