The week view on the booking grid

The members’ booking grid has two views, and the switch between them sits in the toolbar.

Day puts the rinks across the top and the session times down the side. It is the right view for “what is free this afternoon?” and it shows who is on each rink, including the players’ names where they have been entered.

Week puts the seven days across the top and the session times down the side, with every rink listed inside each box as its own small chip. It answers the question members actually ask first — “when could four of us get on?” — because a free evening stands out as a column of empty chips instead of having to be found a day at a time.

Each rink keeps the same colour all the way down the week, so a rink that is always taken on a Tuesday is obvious at a glance. Tapping any free chip opens the booking form with that date, rink and session already filled in.

The week starts on whichever day this site starts its weeks on — that is the Week Starts On setting under Settings → General in WordPress, not a Pavilion setting, so a club that thinks of its week as Sunday to Saturday can have it that way.

Days the club is closed are greyed out and marked CLOSED, using the closed days you have ticked under Settings → Booking Rules.

Common questions

How do I put the week view on a page?

The same shortcode does both: [pvl_rink_view] opens on the day view, and [pvl_rink_view view="week"] opens on the week. Members can switch between them either way, and the choice travels in the page address, so a link to a particular week can be pasted into an email or a newsletter.

A rink shows as free but the booking form refuses it.

The grid shows what is free; the booking rules decide what may actually be booked. The usual reasons are that the date is further ahead than your booking window allows, that bookings for that week have not opened yet, or that the member has reached their limit. The booking form gives the specific reason.

Why does a box show a dot instead of rinks?

That session does not run on that day. Sessions carry the days of the week they run on, so a Saturday-only competition slot shows as a dot from Monday to Friday rather than pretending to be bookable.

The whole week looks free and I know it is not.

Before 9.99.194 this was a genuine fault: the grid was reading the availability data in the wrong shape and every box fell through to “free”. Update to 9.99.194 or later. If it persists after updating, check that your sessions have times that overlap the bookings — a booking from 14:00 to 16:00 only fills a session it actually overlaps.

Our closed day is ignored on the members' grid.

Also fixed in 9.99.194. The closed days were being saved counting from Sunday and read back counting from Monday, which happens to agree only for Monday — so a club closed on a Saturday or a Sunday had that honoured everywhere in the admin screens and quietly ignored on the members’ grid.

Can visitors who are not logged in see it?

Yes, and it stays read-only for them: they see what is taken and what is free, but no Book buttons. Only a signed-in member who is allowed to book gets those.