Calendaring

Introduction

At its heart, SeedCode Calendar Complete is a straight forward FileMaker calendar template. You can filter the calendar by contact, project, user, appointment type, and resource to see just the events that matter to you, letting you keep any number of "calendars" in the same file.(also see resource scheduling.)

The Basics

Daily View. The daily view of the shows all the appointments for the current day, color coding them by appointment type.

(You can create as many types as you'd like and assign your own colors to them).

If the appointment is linked to a contact or project you'll see some information about that as well, along with the users (in bold) assigned to the item. Note that the mini-calendars on the right hand side of the screen present a small green dot if there are appointments on that day which match the current filter criteria.

Appointments (Activities, Milestones, Comments, etc.) We often refer to appointments as "activity" since an appointment can really be any number of things; it can represent everything from a project deadline to some notes you recorded about a phone call. Now you may not want all these activities to show up on the calendar, so you ca designate some as just a "comment" using the icon at the top of the screen below.

Here you can link appointments to contacts or projects and even create new contacts and projects right from within the calendar if you'd like to. You can even record complex vacation or work schedules using our repeating-events engine:

Other Views

Month View. The month view can also be filtered to show just a single project or a single type of appointment. And while you can print the contents of this month as a list, you'll also find an innovative print layout that will print the month as a grid while sliding each day to accommodate all its appointments (well, up to 2 pages of appointments per day).

Week Views. The calendar places items on your week to correspond to the duration of the appointment, this lets you quickly scan your week for gaps.

You can even change the scale of the week, switching from 15 minute increments to 5 minute, 30 minute, or hour increments.Note that conflicting appointments are displayed with a red line to the left of the conflict.

These "visual" displays of your schedule can get pretty crowded if you don't look at them in a highly filtered state (if you're looking at everyone's appointments for example) so we have an alternate week view that shows a simpler version of the week. Note that this view will also show events that might not have a start time associated with them.