AppointmentInput

Appointment scheduling input widget for selecting time slots.

Examples

Basic Usage

This example runs a form with a single page containing the widget

Example Code

from datetime import datetime, timedelta from abstra.forms import AppointmentInput, run def generate_slots(): """ Generate a list of time slots for the next 14 days, excluding weekends and lunch breaks. Each slot is 45 minutes long, starting from 10:00 to 18:00 with a 15-minute interval. """ slots = [] # Replace with datetime.now() for real-time usage current_date = datetime(2025, 1, 1) max_date = current_date + timedelta(days=14) while current_date < max_date: if current_date.weekday() < 5: for hour in range(10, 18): if hour == 12: continue begin = current_date.replace(hour=hour, minute=0) end = begin + timedelta(minutes=45) slots.append((begin, end)) current_date += timedelta(days=1) return [{"begin": begin, "end": end} for begin, end in slots] # Create a page with the widget example_page = [ AppointmentInput( "Welcome to Abstra, please select a demo slot", slots=generate_slots() ), ] # Run the form result = run([example_page]) # Print the result print(result)

Parameters

Name	Description	Type	Default
label (required)	Text label displayed above the input.	str	None
slots (required)	List of available time slots. Eg. [{"begin": "2023-10-01T10:00:00", "end": "2023-10-01T11:00:00"}]	List[Dict]	None
key	Identifier for the widget, defaults to label if not provided.	str	None
required	Whether a time slot must be selected before proceeding.	bool	True
hint	Help text displayed below the input.	str	None
full_width	Whether the input should take up the full width of its container.	bool	False
disabled	Whether the input is non-interactive.	bool	False
errors	Pre-defined validation error messages to display.	Union[List[str], str]	None

State Value

Optional[AppointmentSlot]: The selected appointment time slot. AppointmentSlot contains begin and end attributes. Eg.: {"begin": "2023-10-01T10:00:00", "end": "2023-10-01T11:00:00"}

This is the type of the value that this widget holds. It will show up when accessing widget's state item.

This also defines which value type can be used on initial_state