Allow only the next 5 business days jquery datepicker

Question

I have a datepicker which I am using to set appointments. The only problem with this is that the boss wants the appointment date to only be up to the next 5 business days. I know how to disable the weekends, but I am a little unclear as to how I can make it so that if I choose a wednesday, it lets me select a date up to the next wednesday and accounts for the weekends as well. Any one have any ideas on how to accomplish this?

This could help, it has a solved jsFiddle with exactly the same question as yours : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10584701/jquery-ui-datepicker-restricted-selection-working-days — rusln, Jun 25 '13 at 21:38

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 25 '13 at 21:43

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I think this is what you want

$('yourSelector').datepicker({
    minDate: 0, // your min date
    maxDate: '+1w', // one week will always be 5 business day - not sure if you are including current day
    beforeShowDay: $.datepicker.noWeekends // disable weekends
});

http://jsfiddle.net/wANFJ/

answered Jun 25 '13 at 21:43

wirey00

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Beat me to it by 4 seconds :P – webnoob Jun 25 '13 at 21:44
This is perfect! Exactly what I needed! Thanks for the help! I was unaware you could use almost a php strtotime type string. Thanks again! – jeffro25 Jun 26 '13 at 13:21

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 25 '13 at 21:38

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5 business days is the same as 1 full week, so please try to set the datepicker maxDate to "+1w" or "+5d".

answered Jun 25 '13 at 21:38

Racso

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Specially when you are new and trying to understand how to do things correctly :/ – Racso Jun 25 '13 at 21:45
Late to the party, but it's because +1w or +5d would not give you business days as it'd include weekend days. – James Kemp Oct 24 '15 at 15:09

Jack · Answer 3 · 2013-06-25T21:42:48.920

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Check out http://api.jqueryui.com/datepicker/#option-maxDate

Can probably get away with

$( ".selector" ).datepicker({ maxDate: 5 });

EDIT: Missed the part about business days only, this obviously won't do that.

You can try the below snippet, might take into account your weekend settings.

$( ".selector" ).datepicker({ maxDate: '+1w' });

edited Jun 25 '13 at 21:42

answered Jun 25 '13 at 21:32

Jack

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Allow only the next 5 business days jquery datepicker

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