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View Editor: Calendar Views

A Calendar view organizes and displays records on a calendar.

Calendar View Example

In this article, we are going to cover the Calendar specific setting available on the middle tab in the View Editor that is view type specific. For a Calendar view, it is called ‘Calendar’

Calendar Tab

Calendar View Settings
ItemDescription
Calendar TypeSets the calendar’s default display format. This can be changed by the users within the view itself, in the top right corner of the view. However, upon leaving the view and returning, the view will again be set to this default display format.
Hide WeekendsHides weekends from the calendar display.
Enable creating records from calendarAllows users to create records by selecting a day on the calendar, or by clicking and dragging to select a series of days. Doing so will open a form and auto populate the ‘Start Date’ and ‘End Date’ fields with the day(s) you pick. After toggling this on, you will be asked to select which calendar you would like new entries created in.

Note: If you have enabled the preview pane in the ‘Settings’ tab, the new calendar entry will open in the preview pane, else it will open using the form in full screen style.
Calendar Options

These options determine how your records will display on the calendar. You can have multiple option sets; click ‘+ Add Calendar Option‘ in the top right to create a new set of options.

ItemDescription
Calendar NameThe name for this set of calendar options. This name is not visible to users of the application, they will only see the view’s name.
Event TitleSelect the field from the form that will display as the title for the event on the calendar.
Color TypeDefines what information is used to set the color events display with. Setting this option to ‘Status’ will color each record with its corresponding status color. You may also use a custom color.
Start DateSelect the field from the form that will define the start date of the event on the calendar. (If ‘Enable creating records from calendar‘ is enabled, this field will auto populate with the selected day(s).)
End DateSelect the field from the form that will define the end date of the event on the calendar. (If ‘Enable creating records from calendar‘ is enabled, this field will auto populate with the selected start date.)
Start Time[Only display of there are any Time fields on the form] Select the field from the form that will define the start time of the event on the calendar. (If ‘Enable creating records from calendar‘ is enabled, this field will auto populate with the selected end time, if a time range was selected from the Day calendar display format.)
End Time[Only display of there are any Time fields on the form] Select the field from the form that will define the end time of the event on the calendar. (If ‘Enable creating records from calendar‘ is enabled, this field will auto populate with the selected end time, if a time range was selected from the Day calendar display format.)
Calendar Color Type Example
Here I have used my ‘Name’ field as my Event Title, and a custom Color Type.

Calendar Filters is similar to the Filtering found in the Filters Tab. However, this setting allows you to add specific filters to specific calendar option sets. For example, if you want a user to only see records they created for a specific event, but also be able to see all records of another event, you would add a ‘Created By’ filter in the options here, rather than in the general filtering (which would filter all records).

Note: Filters here may override the general Filtering, if conditions conflict.

Calendar Filters

Next Steps

Below are links to articles that cover how to adjust the design of a view while looking at it, using in-view editing:
Views: In View Editing
Below is the link to the view building part of the Building an Expense Reports App tutorial series:
Part 7 – Views
Updated on June 16, 2022
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