Loading and Saving Data

Mobile Scheduler supports data loading from JSON and XML data sources. By default, data is loaded into Scheduler in JSON format.

{
    id: 7,
    text: "some_text",
    start_date:"2014-05-11 00:00",
    end_date:"2014-05-18 00:00"
    ...
}

Each data item (event) should have a unique id property and the following obligatory parameters:

• text - {string} the item's (event's) title
• start_date - {string} the start date of the event
• end_date - {string} the end date of the event

XML formats

There are two possible XML data types:

• "xml" - event items are described as <item> tags and properties as tag attributes

$$("scheduler").load("events.php","xml");

Here is an example of "xml" data source:

<data>
<item id="2" start_date="2014-05-24 00:00:00" 
       end_date="2014-06-08 00:00:00" text="French Open"></item>
<item id="3" start_date="2014-06-10 00:00:00" 
       end_date="2014-06-13 00:00:00" text="Aegon Championship"></item>
<item id="4" start_date="2014-06-21 00:00:00" 
       end_date="2014-07-05 00:00:00" text="Wimbledon"></item>
</data>

• "scheduler" - event items are described as <event> tags and properties are used as nested tags inside of them

You can use "scheduler" data type (XML data source), if you are going to use Connector for data loading and saving.

$$("scheduler").load("events.php","scheduler");

In case of "scheduler" data type, the xml has the following format:

<data>
    <event id="2">
        <start_date>
            <![CDATA[ 2014-05-24 00:00:00 ]]>
        </start_date>
        <end_date>
            <![CDATA[ 2014-06-08 00:00:00 ]]>
        </end_date>
        <text>
            <![CDATA[ French Open ]]>
        </text>
        <details>
            <![CDATA[ Philippe-Chatrier Court Paris, FRA ]]>
        </details>
    </event>
    <event id="3">
        <start_date>
            <![CDATA[ 2014-06-10 00:00:00 ]]>
        </start_date>
        <end_date>
            <![CDATA[ 2014-06-13 00:00:00 ]]>
        </end_date>
        <text>
            <![CDATA[ Aegon Championship ]]>
        </text>
        <details>
            <![CDATA[ The Queens Club London, ENG ]]>
        </details>
    </event>
</data>

Related sample:  Initialization

If you have a big data source, you can enable Dynamic Loading and data will be loaded by parts: months or years.

Saving data

There are several ways of saving data in Webix. The details on saving data are given in the Data Saving article.

To save data in scheduler you can make use of DataProcessor and set the save property:

webix.ready(function(){
    webix.ui({
        view: "scheduler",
        id: "scheduler",
        save: ".../events.php"
    });
    $$("scheduler").load("events.php");
});

Or you can implement your own saving solution by using events.

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