Calendar is one of the CRM modules. Using this tool you can create, change and view events. You can use it as a planner, organizer and reminder.
  1. Displaying schedules
    1. Agenda
    2. Grid views
      1. Event frame
      2. Day View
      3. Week View
      4. Month View
    3. Year View
    4. Options
  2. Displaying event's details
    1. Event Tooltip
    2. View Event interface
    3. Event's attributes
    4. Recurrence
  3. Adding and editing events
    1. Adding
    2. Editing
    3. Cloning
    4. Filling data form
    5. Moving
    6. Closing / cancelling
  4. Deleting events
  5. Interface details

Displaying schedules

Calendar can display events in a few different ways. These are: Agenda, Day View, Week View, Month View and Year View. You can switch between them by clicking on the respective tabs while in Calendar module.

Agenda


Agenda puts events in a list, one under another. It gives you posibillity to view events in a few useful orders, for example chronologically.
  1. This panel determines time range for which events are displayed. You can set this range by determinig From and To dates. To do this write the proper dates in fields "From" and "To" or choose them using "Select date" buttons. After that click "Show" button and the right events will be displayed.
  2. This bar, apart from obvious informational usage, serves as the sorting tool. All fields here, except "Actions", work as sorting buttons. When you click them, you choose the value by which the events are sorted and also toggle ascending/descending order.
  3. This icon idicates, that the event is repeatable. Such an event can occur with one of the few different frequencies, for instance once a week on Monday.
  4. These buttons serve as shortcuts to the common actions you might want to perform on the events.

Grid views

Day View, Week View and Month View display events by showing them on time grids. Day View and Week View focus on showing the starting dates, duration and overlaping of events. Month View is more general and display events on the right days, without further details, but in a larger scope.

Event frame

In all grid views events are displayed as a small, color frames. In Day View and Week View their size depends on their duration as well as the precision of the times on grid. In the Month View the size is fixed. You can see here some basic information, like the starting time of the event and usually shortened version of event's title. There is a small icon in the top left corner of the frame. When you hover mouse over it, details of the event will be displayed. When you click on this icon, then menu with actions will be displayed. There can be sometimes this icon on the event frame. It means that the event is repeatable.

Day View

Day View displays all events of the selected day.
  1. This panel helps you navigate through the dates, either by going through consecutive days ("Previous day" and "Next day") or by skipping right to the day of your interest ("Select date").
  2. This space is used to delete events. More...
  3. This header gives information, what day is displayed. In addition, signs of month and year serve as buttons to corresponding Month View and Year View.
  4. This panel contain labels that inform about exact time the cells stand for. More...
  5. A cell is a basic component of the day grid. Double click on it will start a creation of a new event.
  6. This is an event. It is displayed in a form of event frame.

Week View

Week View is similar to Day View. There are, however, two differences - events from seven, not only one, consecutive days are displayed and the navigating panel is slightly different, as it allows also navigating with the week leaps.
  1. Navigating panel helps you navigate through days nad weeks. You can move by one day ("Previous day", "Next day") or week ("Previous week","Next week"). There is always possibility to move right to the week of some other date ("Select date").
  2. An easy way to delete events. More...
  3. This time header informs about the month and year of the displayed week. There might be two such headers, when the week is at the edge of two months. The two labels - of month and year, both serve as buttons to Month View and Year View.
  4. Day headers mark consecutive days of the week. All events in the column beneath this header are of the same day. It also serves as a button to a Day View.
  5. Time panel marks rows with times they refer to. More...
  6. A single event, displayed as event frame.
  7. Cell - basic component of the grid. Double click on it will start the process of adding new event with starting date and time same as these of the cell.

Month View

Month View displays events from selected month. It shows more events, but with fewer details.
  1. Buttons in this panel serve as tools to navigate through months and years, either one after the other ("Previous mont", "Next month" and "Previous year","Next year") or directly to the month of interest ("Select month").
  2. This area is used to delete events. More...
  3. Header of the month. The sign of year serves also as a button redirecting to Year View.
  4. Numbers on this panel refer to weeks. Each of these labels redirects to proper Week View.
  5. The events in this view are also represented by event frames, however all of them have the same size.
  6. A day cell - basic component of Month View's grid. Double click on it will add a new event.
  7. A day label. Redirects to the Day View.

Year View

Year View is not that much precise as the prior views. It focuses on showing the days that have some events planned in the context of the whole year. You can use it also as navigating tool, as it has buttons which direct to all kinds of grid views.
  1. Navigating panel, when you want to go through consecutive years ("Previous year" and "Next year" button) or just skip to another year ("Select year").
  2. A month header. It works as a button redirecting to the Month View of the chosen month.
  3. Headers of the weeks. Each of them, when pressed, redirects to Week View of the chosen week.
  4. A cell of a day without any events. Stil can be used to redirect to Day View of this day.
  5. A cell of a day with some events planned (the font is bold and the background color is the same as the one of the first event of this day). It also redirects to Day View.

Options

There are a few options that can be changed here. You can access them by Menu -> My settings -> Control panel and then choosing Calendar. Click button "Save" on ActionBar to save chosen settings.
  1. The day of the week you want to be displayed as the first one. This option is used not only in Week View and Month View, but also in Year View.
  2. The view that will be displayed, when you access calendar.
  3. The hour at which you start your day. The earlier hours will be displayed all in one row. This applies to Day View and Week View.
  4. The ending hour of your day. The time after that till the end of the day will be seen in one row. This applies to Day View and Week View.
  5. The precision, with wchich the grid will be displayed. The interval determines the duration that corresponds with each row. It is used in Day View and Week View.
  6. The color of frames of events that have "Default" color chosen as the one to be displayed. More...

Displaying event's details

All events have a variety of settings and additional information that isn't shown while displaying schedules. You can access these details in two ways - by View Event interface or by Event Tooltip.

Event Tooltip

This tooltip is visible when you hover mouse over the icon on event frame in any of grid views.
Date - the day the event is scheduled for
Time - the exact hours of the start and the end of the event
Duration - the amount of time between starting and ending hour of the event
Event - the title of the event; an outline
Description - more information about the event (text)
Assigned to - people from your company directly involved in the event progress
Contacts - customers, contractors or other people who take part in the event or are interested in it.
Status - informs about the stage in which event is. More...
Access - how and by whom the event might be accessed. More...
Priority - tells how important the event is. More...
Notes - the number of notes that are attached to this event
Created by - the date and time of event's creation
Created on - person who created the event

View Event interface

You can access this interface in a few ways. From Agenda - by clicking on the title of the event's title. From grid views - by using event frame, either by clicking on the time panel or by choosing "view" from actions.
  1. This panel contains a few usefull actions.
  2. Title - an outline of an event, its definition.
  3. Description - contains more detailed information about the event.
  4. Employees - people who are directly and actively involved in the event from the side of company.
  5. Timeless - gives information whether event is timeless or not.
  6. Access - the way the event can be accessed across the system. More...
  7. Priority - tells how important the event is. More...
  8. Color - the color connected with the event. This color is used to display event frame in grid views. More...
  9. Status - the information about in which state the event is (More... ). This interface allows changing of status by simply clicking on it. Clicking on "Open" will change it to "In Progress" and clicking on "In Progress" will change it to "Closed" or "Canceled" (depending on user's choice).
  10. Customers - the list of people who are conected with the event, but don't take active role in it or are from outside of the company.
  11. Recurrence - informs whether event is repeatable. On the picture above - it is not. More...
  12. Notes and Alerts.

Event's attributes

There are a few attributes of events that require detailed description. These are: Access, Priority, Color and Status.

Access

Access indicates the type of permission to view and change the event. There are a few options possible:

Priority

This attribute says how important the event is. The priority might be set to three different values:

Color

Color is a basic attribute of every event. Is is used mainly by grid views while displaying event frame. It also influences the color of the day in Year View. You can use it as a tool to mark different types of events. Recuring events have the same color for every ocurrence.
There is a variety of colors the event can take: green, yellow, red, blue, gray, cyan and magenta. Event can also have "default" color chosen. "Default" color is set per user (this can be set in Options). All events that have "default" as a color will be displayed for you with the color you choose as your "default".

Status

This attribute informs about the progress of the event. There are four possible stages:

Recurrence

This icon displayed on an event frame or near the event's title in Agenda means that the event is repeatable. It is scheduled to recur once in some certain time, for example - on Mondays or every 14th day of the month.
In the View Event interface you can find more detailed information about the recurrence of particular event.
  1. This field displays the information whether event is recurring or not.
  2. The recurrence interval. Possible options are:
  3. Indicates if there is an end date for this recurring event
  4. The end date for the recurrence.

Adding and editing events

Adding

To add a new event you can simply click "Add event" button (on the picture) and then fill the data.
Other way of starting event creation is by using Grid Views. Double clicking on a cell in Day View or Week View will direct you to filling form with date and time filled with the data based on the time and date of the cell. Clicking on a cell in the Month View will give simillar effect - the date of the new event will be the same as the one of the cell.

Editing

To edit an event you need to access the filling form and change there the fields of interest. There are a few ways to access this form:
  • From Agenda - choose the "Edit" option from actions available for the event.
  • From Grid Views - click icon on the right event frame, and choose "Edit" from available actions.
  • From View Event interface - while viewing the event use "Edit" button from Action Bar (on the picture)

Cloning

If you want to create an event very similar to the one that already exists, you can use cloning function. To do this, enter a view of the event you want to copy, and click "Clone" button from Action Bar (on the picture). It will redirect you to a form filled with the cloned event's data. To proceed enter and save the changes.
Note: the original event won't be changed during cloning.

Filling data form

  1. The name of the event, may contain a short information regarding the event.
  2. Description of the event, containing more detailed information, for example a short list or agenda.
  3. List of people directly involved in the event, in a form of multiselect.
  4. Recurrence options. *TO DO LATER*
  5. Time options. Here you set detailed information about the event start, end or duration.
    In the first part you choose the start date and time. You can set the date by filling the field to the left or by clicking "Select date" button and displaying small calendar. On the right side you can change the start time, by selecting right options from three selects (or two, if you use 24 hour time display).
    In the second part you choose duration or end time of the event. To set a duration, choose one of the options available in select to the left (5, 15, 30 or 45 minutes; 1, 2, 4 or 8 hours). If you want to determine the end time instead of duration, clicking "Toggle" will let you do so.
    To determine end time, choose the desired options from three selects available to the right (or two, if you use 24 hour time display). If you want to go back to setting duration from this point, click "Toggle" button.
    If you don't want to determine the exact time of the event you are creating or editing, check "Timeless" option for it.
  6. Here you can set event's attributes: access, priority, color and status. More detailed information about these fields you will find here.
  7. Customers' selection. Here you can choose all customers that are connected with the event by using auto-multi.
  8. Setting alerts. More...
When you fill the data you can see two buttons on the Action Bar: Save and Back.
If you want to save the changes you've made (or the new event), click "Save" button to confirm them.
If you want to abandon the changes you've made (or the new event), click "Back" to reverse them.

Moving

If the only thing you want to change in the event is its time or date (but not duration), you can do this by moving the event. You can do this from any Grid View.

Closing / cancelling

When the event is over and you finished working on it, you may want to mark this event as "closed". If the event didn't happen or was called off, you may want this event marked as "canceled". Both these status changes you can do in a few similar ways: First two methods described above are using a leightbox for the final phase of changing the status.
  1. Status selection - here you choose whether you want to close or cancel the event.
  2. Note - here you can write some comments.
  3. Follow ups - in order to continue you have to click one ot these. The default value is "No follow up" - click this button if you only want to close/cancel the event. Other options allow you creation of a new event, task or phone call using the data of the event being closed/canceled.

Deleting events

To delete an event you need first to display it, either in Agenda or in one of the Grid Views and then: After that you will see a confirmation box. Click "OK" to succesfully finish deleting process.

Interface details

Actions

Actions are as follows:

Deletion area

This area, marked with the icon of dust bin, serves as a simple method of deleting events. It is used in all views with event frames: Day View, Week View and Month View. To delete particular event, just drag and drop event frame on this spot.

Time panel

This panel contains labels that indicate the time of the day which is represented by the cells next to them. It is used in Day View and Week View. There are several types of labels here, each of them should be interpreted in a slightly different manner.
This label marks that events in the same row are "timeless". This means that there is not specific time of their start and end. It appears only once for one time panel, always on top of it.
This label, which is always right after "Timeless", marks the row that contains all the events that happen before the "start of the day". The time of this start may be changed in Options. There is always only one such label for a time panel. It is placed between "timeless" label and the standard ones.
This is typical label of time panel. All of them have the same time span. Here it is one hour, but this can be changed to different values in Options. The duration of the event might be, of course, longer than the duration of one of such labels. Event frame is then situated in more than one cell.
This label is next to the row, which contains all the events that happen after the "end of the day". Exact time of this "end" can be set in Options. This label is always at the end of time panel. There could be only one such label in one time panel.

Small calendar

This tool is very usefull when selecting date, month or year, which is not near the current or currently displayed one.
This is view of the month. It is used to choose the day. From here you can select the date, by clicking on a proper number. You can also choose a day from another month. To do so, you need to change view to the month of interest. Simply navigate with the arrows located in the to right and top left corner of the small calendar frame. There is also another method - using view of the year you can directly choose the month from the displayed year. To go to that view - click on the name of the month.
The view of the year serves to select months. To do so, click on the name of the right month. If you need month from another year, you can navigate through years by using arrows located in top left and top right corner. You can also display wider range of the years to choose from by clicking on the name of the year. It will redirect you to view of decade.
View of the decade shows ten consecutive years. You can choose a year by clicking on the proper number. If the year of interest is not in the displayed decade, you can navigate to next and previous decades by using arrows from the top panel.