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J. M. RhodesCreating Business Applications with Office 365https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5331-1_7

7. Preventing Double-Booking of Calendar Events

Jeffrey M. Rhodes1 
(1)
Colorado, CO, USA
 

The genesis of this chapter was a request by our Registrar for a solution so that cadets scheduling tutor appointments would be prevented from trying to book an appointment that overlaps another tutoring session.1 Each tutor has his or her own SharePoint calendar. They had a solution in our previous SharePoint 2010 version, but that involved “Resource Reservations” and was deprecated in SharePoint 2013. I found some references to a JavaScript/jQuery solution, which as you can probably already tell were much more up my alley. In this solution, ...

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