DayPilot » Knowledge Base » How to combine column visibility and cell background to show business hours in the Scheduler

If you decide to hide the non-business hours using ShowNonBusiness="false" you may realize that it's hiding too much.

• It's driven by the BusinessBeginsHour and BusinessEndsHour.
• It hides all cell outside of this time range.
• It hides all weekends.

Usually it's necessary to show several time blocks before and after the business hours and on the weekend but still indicate that it's not a standard working time.

This can be done by adjusting the column visibility and setting custom background cell colors.

1. Enlarge the visible area for working days

Define lower BusinessBeginsHour value (5 instead of 7) and higher BusinessEndsHour (18 instead of 15).

This will show a bigger time frame each working day.

2. Show the weekends

Override BeforeTimeHeaderRender and set the column visibility for weekend time cells.

protected void DayPilotScheduler1_BeforeTimeHeaderRender(object sender, DayPilot.Web.Ui.Events.BeforeTimeHeaderRenderEventArgs e)
{
  if (e.Start.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Saturday || e.Start.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Sunday) {
    if (e.Start.Hour > DayPilotScheduler1.BusinessBeginsHour && e.Start.Hour < DayPilotScheduler1.BusinessEndsHour - 1) {
      e.Visible = true;
    }
  }
}

3. Indicate the real business hours using cell background color

protected void DayPilotScheduler1_BeforeCellRender(object sender, DayPilot.Web.Ui.Events.BeforeCellRenderEventArgs e)
{
  if (e.Start.Hour < 7) {
    e.IsBusiness = false;
  }

  if (e.End.Hour > 15) {
    e.IsBusiness = false;
  }
}