In this episode, we tackle a key step in our booking flow: automatically assigning an available employee when someone books an appointment slot without picking an employee.
First up, we squash a little bug in our date picker. Sometimes, if you double click the input, it tries to set the date to null. We quickly patch this up by adding a simple check so our form ignores null dates. Once that's sorted, we move on to the real challenge: choosing an employee for the selected time slot.
Here's how we handle that: when you select a service and pick a time without choosing an employee, our code will scan the available slots and grab the first available employee for that slot. We walk through adding this logic, talk about how you could swap in your own custom rules (like employee priority, if you have one), and neatly pull this out into a helper method to keep things tidy.
Finally, we put it to the test—picking a service, picking a date and time, and seeing our booking flow automatically assign the first available employee. Boom—seamless checkout experience!
So, after this episode, you'll have a user-friendly appointment booking process that takes the hassle out of picking an employee, making things easy for both your users and your codebase.