Ok thanks for the heads up. 

Sounds like something I should not mess with then The only reason i was looking at trying as that I am making a reservation system and the bookings that span the entire day view width, just seem to me like they are more important than the ones that are shared width.  It is purely cosmetic, so not to worry

Cheers

 Hey Aaron

Good Point and infact i am toying with that right now. The problem being there about be 70 tables at the restuarant, so not sure what that will end up looking like, but like I said, am giving it a go now

 Thanks again for the help, really good advice

 Well assuming you book 70 tables... it will look ALOT better than seeing 70 Appointments squeezed together on the one appointment owner side by side.

Set some properties such as "PreferredColumnWidth", "MinimumColumnWidth" and with the control automatically having the ability to scroll sideways (although this is not ideal) you will be able to see all of the tables quiet well.

What I suggest you do is to apply some filtering to the rooms/owners.

Perhaps by default, show all 70 rooms... but the first question you want to ask your "user" to enter when they are searching/filter for available tables is the "how many seats required".

If you stored the number of seats at each table in the Owner.Tag property then you could quickly filter it.

eg:

For Each own As Owner in CalendarInfo.Owners
     Dim seatnumbers As Integer = TryCast(own.Tag,Integer)
     If seatnumbers IsNot Nothing Then
          own.visible = seatnumbers = _UserInputAsInteger
     Else
          own.visible = true 'set your default behaviour if room/owner does not have seat number set
     End If
Next

Your users will be able to very quickly view only those tables which are relavant...potentially, 70 tables/owners could be cut down to 10 very quickly.

Hope this helps.

Cheers
Aaron

Hey Again Aaron,

Great idea. That sound like a great plan.

I will put that into place now and test it out, but i think it will be a good way to go.

I am defiantly saving off other relivent information about the reservation using  the method i learnt from you previously so query the relivant tables would be easy (Dim drv As DataRowView = DirectCast(e.Appointment.BindingListObject, DataRowView))

Again, thanks for the tips and help

Using the DataRowView is good for adhoc queries IMHO... but I prefer to build a Nice custom class and store it in the Owner.Tag object on Initialization.

Eg:

Public Class TableInformation
     Public Property NumberOfSeats as Integer
     Public Property HasWaterViews as Boolean
     Public Property IsVIPTable as Boolean
     ...
     'I don't know what other fields you have
End Class

So on Owner Initialization create a new instance of this class and populate it from your database... then Owner.Tag = InstanceOfCustomClass

It will be nicer to work with in the future.

Cheers
Aaron

 HI again

 I am powering on with your idea about having each table as an owner and also using "unassigned" for bookings that have yet to be assigned a table.  Looks like it will be the way to go, makes it easy to see what tables are booked etc

One thing that would be good is able to lock the assigned to display in the first column, even if i scroll to the right to see other tables.  IS this possible?

I would then be able to see all the tables by scrolling while also remaining to see the unassigned bookings.

Does this make sense? and is it possible?

I am looking through the help, but can not seem to see a property for that, mind you i did not see the other ones that you have pointed out for me.

 Cheers for the help

Try using a combination of DayView.EnsureColumnInView

Or DayView.CalendarInfo.Owners.SwapOwners to re-order the rooms dynamically when you scroll left/right