Create or Update Availability Rule

Description #

Creates or updates an availability rule for the authenticated account.

URL format #

{data_center_url}/v1/availability_rules

Example Request #

POST /v1/availability_rules HTTP/1.1
Host: {data_center_url}
Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8

{
  "availability_rule_id": "default",
  "tzid": "America/Chicago",
  "calendar_ids": [
    "cal_n23kjnwrw2_jsdfjksn234"
  ],
  "weekly_periods": [
    {
      "day": "monday",
      "start_time": "09:30",
      "end_time": "12:30"
    },
    {
      "day": "monday",
      "start_time": "14:00",
      "end_time": "17:00"
    },
    {
      "day": "wednesday",
      "start_time": "09:30",
      "end_time": "12:30"
    }
  ]
}

Request parameters #

data_center_url required

The URL for the data center you want to communicate with. Possible choices are:

api-au.cronofy.com - 🇦🇺 Australia
api-ca.cronofy.com - 🇨🇦 Canada
api-de.cronofy.com - 🇩🇪 Germany
api-sg.cronofy.com - 🇸🇬 Singapore
api-uk.cronofy.com - 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
api.cronofy.com - 🇺🇸 United States

Find out more about Cronofy's data centers.

availability_rule_id required #

The String that uniquely identifies the availability rule. The first request made for an availability_rule_id will create an available period for the account and subsequent requests will update its details.

Usually this will be your own internal ID for the available period, encoded as an ASCII-only String of up to 64 characters.

tzid required #

A String representing a known time zone identifier from the IANA Time Zone Database.

Common examples are:

Etc/UTC
Europe/Paris
America/Chicago

calendar_ids optional #

An Array specifying the calendars that should impact the user’s availability. When provided at least one calendar must be specified.

weekly_periods required #

An Array of weekly recurring periods for the availability rule.

weekly_period.day required #

A String the week day this period applies to.

Each day can be specified multiple times to set multiple periods on the same day.

Valid options are:

sunday
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday

weekly_period.start_time required #

A String the time of day the period should start expressed as a 24hr clock string, eg: 09:30.

weekly_period.end_time required #

A String the time of day the period should end expressed as a 24hr clock string, eg: 16:30.

In addition to a standard time string, the value of 24:00 is supported in order to allow representation of a rule ending at midnight, eg:

{
  "day": "monday",
  "start_time": "08:00",
  "end_time": "24:00"
}

Example Response #

HTTP/1.1 200 Success
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8

{
  "availability_rule": {
    "availability_rule_id": "default",
    "tzid": "America/Chicago",
    "calendar_ids": [
      "cal_n23kjnwrw2_jsdfjksn234"
    ],
    "weekly_periods": [
      {
        "day": "monday",
        "start_time": "09:30",
        "end_time": "12:30"
      },
      {
        "day": "monday",
        "start_time": "14:00",
        "end_time": "17:00"
      },
      {
        "day": "wednesday",
        "start_time": "09:30",
        "end_time": "12:30"
      }
    ]
  }
}