• Support Group
• Google+ Community

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https://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/general/errors.html

Enable Error Logging in Easy!Appointments
Open the /application/config/config.php file and go to line 201: $config[‘log_threshold’] and change its value to 1. Log files will be stored in the /application/logs directory so make sure that it is writable.

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Furthermore, once the database records start to grow in number and there is valuable customer information stored within the app and webmasters need to make sure that they maintain copies of these data. In the future Easy!Appointments is going to provide API methods that will enable users to access those information from other software systems, so data integrity is very important.

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Download the Danish translation from the following page:

https://github.com/alextselegidis/easyappointments/wiki/Manage-Translations

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Easy!Appointments uses the CodeIgniter built-in localization system and that means that translation files contain plain PHP code that resides in the “/application/language” directory. Every translation must have its own folder with a sanitized name because CodeIgniter will use it to identify the translation (as described later). The best way to start writing a new translation is to copy the existing english language and convert the “translations_lang.php” file into your own language.

Once you are finished you will have to inform Easy!Appointments that you have inserted a new language so open the “/application/config/config.php” file and find the $config[‘language’] variable. This variable defines the default UI language. It must be one of the $config[‘available_languages’], a variable that contains all the available languages of the installation. The translations defined there must have the same names as the translation folders in the “/application/language” directory. You can add or remove translations by modifying this array.

Visit the Manage Translations wiki page of the project for further information about localization. If you create a new translation that doesn’t already exist please consider sending your files to alextselegidis@gmail.com. Contributors are credited and their work is being much appreciated by people that use Easy!Appointments all over the world.

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1. Customer
2. Administrator
3. Provider
4. Secretary

Bellow there is a brief description of each user role.

Customer

As it’s easy to guess, customer users can just book appointments and make changes to them if necessary. They have no access to the backend section and they are not required to have login credentials because the booking procedure does not include a sign up step. This is because there is no reason for customers to create another unnecessary account just for booking one appointment. They can, of course edit or even cancel their appointments through a unique appointment link sent to them through email.

Administrator

Admin users are the only ones that have access to every section of the system. They can manage other user types, adjust system settings and manage the appointment information of providers and customers. The system must always have at least one administrator user and that’s why one cannot delete all the administrator records through backend. The first administrator user is created upon the installation of Easy!Appointments.

Provider

Provider users (or better Service Providers) are the users that provide one or more services and the ones that customers book appointments with. They have access to the backend section but only in records that concern them directly. That means that they cannot manage backend users or change the system settings. Furthermore they can only view their personal calendar and make changes to it.

Secretary

This kind of users can manage several providers’ schedules and organize their appointments. The administrator can assign the providers that can be managed by a secretary upon the creation of the user. Secretary users might come in handy when there are employees that actually manage the appointments of service providers but they are not required to have administrative privileges.

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First of all every developer that wants to install Easy!Appointments must remember that it uses the CodeIgniter framework and any problems addressed to AJAX or other basic PHP issues might be caused because CI’s requirements are not fulfilled. Other external resources of JavaScript and CSS libraries would hardly cause any problems (except from browser compatibility issues).

Version 1.0 of Easy!Appointments provide some information in the browser’s JavaScript console that can be useful when something is not working properly, so consider opening the console first (press F12 and open the “console” tab). Users have reported that sometimes the console output is not very descriptive, something that will be improved in the future.

Apache’s “error.log” includes most of the times useful information about errors that happen on the server and front end users cannot figure otherwise. Checking the “error.log” is the first thing that developers need to do for extra information.

Newer versions of Easy!Appointments will improve the error handling and logging so that it will be easier to debug and resolve defects of the application.

If the solution to your problem is not obvious or not feasible there are many places that you can get help online such as the Official E!A Support Group, Google+ Community, CodeIgniter Forum and other relevant websites.

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1. Head to the backend section by navigating to http://url/to/easyappointments/backend and login with your administration credentials.
2. Go to the “Services” menu item and add some services.
3. Go to the “Users” page and add a new provider record. Assign some services to this provider.
4. Go to the frontend page again and book a test appointment. Normally you should be able to select a service and the requested provider and then select an appointment hour.

Important Notes:

* You can change the working plan of a provider at backend/users page.
* Go to the backend/settings page and set your business logic (book timeout, general working plan etc).
* Did you know that Easy!Appointments supports Google Calendar synchronization? (Details on the next Easy!Hints article!)

If you experience installation problems consider visiting the Official Support group for solutions.

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