Creating Events

Creating events

Create events by dragging across empty slots — or entirely from the keyboard.

On this page

Press on an empty slot and drag to select a range — releasing creates an event and calls onEventChange with action: 'create'. In the month view the same gesture spans days and creates an all-day event.

import { CScheduler } from '@coreui/react-scheduler'
import { useState } from 'react'

const pad = (n: number) => String(n).padStart(2, '0')
const day = (offset: number) => {
  const date = new Date()
  date.setDate(date.getDate() - ((date.getDay() + 6) % 7) + offset)
  return `${date.getFullYear()}-${pad(date.getMonth() + 1)}-${pad(date.getDate())}`
}

export const SchedulerCreateExample = () => {
  const [log, setLog] = useState('')

  return (
    <>
      <CScheduler
        dayStartHour={8}
        dayEndHour={18}
        snap={15}
        events={[
          {
            id: 'busy', title: 'Busy', start: `${day(1)}T10:00`, end: `${day(1)}T11:00`
          }
        ]}
        onEventChange={change => {
          if (change.action === 'create') {
            setLog(`Created: ${change.event.start} → ${change.event.end}`)
          }
        }}
      />
      <p className="mt-2 mb-0 text-body-secondary">{log}</p>
    </>
  )
}

import { CScheduler } from '@coreui/react-scheduler'
import { useState } from 'react'

const pad = (n: number) => String(n).padStart(2, '0')
const day = (offset: number) => {
  const date = new Date()
  date.setDate(date.getDate() - ((date.getDay() + 6) % 7) + offset)
  return `${date.getFullYear()}-${pad(date.getMonth() + 1)}-${pad(date.getDate())}`
}

export const SchedulerCreateExample = () => {
  const [log, setLog] = useState('')

  return (
    <>
      <CScheduler
        dayStartHour={8}
        dayEndHour={18}
        snap={15}
        events={[
          {
            id: 'busy', title: 'Busy', start: `${day(1)}T10:00`, end: `${day(1)}T11:00`
          }
        ]}
        onEventChange={change => {
          if (change.action === 'create') {
            setLog(`Created: ${change.event.start} → ${change.event.end}`)
          }
        }}
      />
      <p className="mt-2 mb-0 text-body-secondary">{log}</p>
    </>
  )
}

Set selectable={false} to turn range selection (and click selection) off.

From the keyboard

The time grid is keyboard-navigable: Tab into it, move between slots with the arrow keys, press Enter to anchor a selection, extend it with ↑/↓ (by snap) and ←/→ (by day), then Enter to create — or Escape to cancel.