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Calendar Options 

Options 

There are a bunch of various options that you can set for any calendar. This is where you go to set them.

  • Config Button – on Web & iCal Module only – hides the configuration button the calendar. We also highly recommend renaming the config folder so that it can’t be accessed.
  • Language – Set the language most areas of the calendar. Use “Labels” settings for everything else
  • Default View-What view do you want to start with?
  • Run LatLng script for all events – Queries Google to automatically update events based on Location field. IMPORTANT NOTE: this will run a script for every location on your Calendar. So if you’re showing a lot of events it could take quite some time, seeming to freeze up your calendar. We recommend creating a script in FileMaker to populate the LatLng fields before using this option.
  • Read only – can’t make any changes to the calendar.
  • Click Date to View – What view do you want to show when you click on the date in Month or Week views?
  • Inline Event Editing – In day, week and unit view will allow you to edit text “inline” instead of having to open an edit window.
  • Cascade Events – instead of showing your overlapping events side-by-side, you can choose to cascade them on top of one another.
  • Start on Monday? – start the week and month view on a Monday instead of a Sunday.
  • Hide Weekends – hide weekends in every view
  • Start and End Time – a hard beginning and end time for your calendar – you won’t see events before or after this time.
  • Scroll to What Time? – When the calendar is drawn, automatically scroll to a particular time. You can still scroll back up to see earlier times. This is midnight by default.
  • Show “Now” Indicator   – show a red bar on several views indicating the current time.
  • After Hours Indicator – Show an indicator on the calendar when events occur before the start time or after the end time (and therefore are not visible on the calendar). This will show a shaded section for the first or last 15 minutes on the day, week, timeline, or resource or planner views. If the event is assigned a resource, it will only show up on the resource, planner and timeline views.
  • Use Simple Event Box – show the event on the day, week, and resource view without the time bar. This allows you to (a) have a more streamlined look to your events and (b) fit short events into smaller time slots.
  • Events in Month View – How many events do you want to show for each day in Month view?  If there are more events to show, there will be a “x more” button at the bottom of each day, which will jump you to day view to look at the rest of the events for the day. Choosing zero for this option will show all events for each day.
  • Event Height in Week Column – Height of your events in week column view
  • Unscheduled Event Height – Height of your Unscheduled Events
  • Hour Height  – by doubling the height of an hour in week and day view, you can get more detail on the page. In order to keep the lines of the calendar lined up with the horizontal lines, you should choose a height from the drop-down menu – they need to stay in multiples of the size of the grid.
  • Time Step Minutes – Determines how events are displayed and dragged. For example, entering 15, would allow a drag-create to make an event at 12, 12:15, 12:30, and 12:45, but not at 12:10.
  • Resources Scroll – Controls how many resources you can see on the Resource view before you will need to scroll to the next group of resources. If you don’t choose anything, all your resources will show on the screen at once.
    Note: Make sure this number isn’t bigger than the number of resources, or the resource view won’t work
  • Timeline Span – Choose from day, week, two week or month. You can also type in a specific number of hours.
  • Scrollable Timeline – Add horizontal scrollbar to timelines that need more room from left to right.
  • Refresh Entire Calendar – Every time you make a change, the entire calendar will refresh. This is useful if other people are also making changes to the calendar at the same time.
  • Save UTC Time – don’t choose this unless you’re prepared for some under-the-hood work. This setting will:
    • Assume that all dates and times stored in FileMaker are UTC.
    • Convert FileMaker times from UTC to local time, based on your computer settings.
    • Write back UTC time to FileMaker when using Server-Side Async.
  • Hide Navigation Bar  – you can completely hide the navigation bar from view so that all you see is the calendar grid. You will then have to navigate the views and the date by changing the Source of the web viewer (see Deploy options for how this works).
  • Hide Sidebar – Hide the Sidebar that shows calendar and tasks
  • Touch Enhancements – Adds touch-centric features:
    • Swipe between dates
    • Clicking shows a larger menu with a preview of the event
    • Hold & Drag adds a hint overlay, showing where you’re dragging
  • Checkboxes in lightbox – Use checkboxes in the event lightbox, allowing you to select multiple resources. If this is unselected, a menu will shown allowing only one selection.
  • Support button – Show a “support request” button to send to soSIMPLE. We will sometimes ask you to turn this on for tech support issues.
  • Event Action Icons – typically we keep those off. They can be useful, however, if you want more control over what clicking an event does. A selected event will then have a tiny toolbar attached to it with the following options:
    • Edit an event: show in-line editing window when that’s enabled.
    • Info for an event: show a popup window to edit your event
    • Delete: Deletes an event.
    • These action behave differently in the Add-on versus the Web & iCal module (on the web).
      • In the Add-on:
        • The edit button will run the Action script in FileMaker Pro when save the event by pressing “Enter” on your keyboard, with the new text of the event in the $text variable.
        • The info button will run the Action script in FileMaker Pro when you click “Save”, with the new text of the event in the $text variable.
        • The delete button will run the Action script in FileMaker Pro with “Delete” as the $event_type variable.
      • On the web:
        • The edit button will save the event by pressing “Enter” on your keyboard.
        • The info button save the event when you click “Save” in the lightbox
        • The delete button delete the event automatically.
  • Auto-update – every x seconds, your calendar will automatically refresh all the events. This is useful for a networked environment, when changes are being made very frequently.
    • With the Add-on, this will automatically run the Actions script.
    • With the Web & iCal module on the web, the events will be refreshed from the server
  • Lat, Lng Starting Position – the starting position of the Google Maps, when there is no event selected.

Labels

Just about everything can be re-labeled, so you can use your own text for what Resources represents, for example. This is button to click to change how any constant text appears on your calendar.

If you’re working in another language, you would first select your language in the options section, then update the labels here.

Custom JS & Custom CSS

At the request of Support, or for custom development requests, we may ask you to enter something in here to add or change a feature of the calendar. Otherwise, this field will usually be blank. (This is found in the “Advanced” tab in the Add-on and in the “Custom Code” tab on the web).