How the Booking Diary Appointment Types Work

Source: workshop-public-booking-api-gateway/routes/publicEventRequestHandler.js

• Public portal matches appointment types by UUID
• NZAA endpoint matches by description text (different logic!)
• Estimated hours are summed across all selected types
• Types sorted reverse alphabetically by default
• If no types match, returns 400 error (but two different failure modes return same error)

Support scenarios

• "Wrong appointment duration" → hours summed from all selected types
• "NZAA booking shows different type than portal" → different matching logic (ID vs description)