Section 2 (cont'd): Calendar views

Section 2.3: Day View

Main navigation buttons - The navigation buttons for Day view are located in the upper left corner of the screen. Day view displays nine hours for the current day. Click the right arrow button to move one day forward, and the left arrow to go to the previous day. Hold down the SHIFT key on your keyboard while clicking the left arrow to navigate to the current day in the previous week; holding down the SHIFT key while clicking the right arrow navigates to the same day in the week following the current week. Use the up and down arrows to navigate from hour to hour, or in eight-hour blocks when holding down the SHIFT key. In the right half of the Day view you will see all tasks (to clarify, the first forty-one tasks) for the current day. If you need to view all tasks for a day, go to month view, or to the event list. Navigating to these screens is covered in the section titled The Button Bar.

Current day/month/year display - indicates the day, month and year you are currently viewing. This display refreshes as you use the navigation buttons to move from day to day and week to week.



Appointment, Day view


Task, Day view

Events - Any appointment or task that has been added to the calendar is considered an event. After an event has been created, clicking on that item in Day view navigates to Detail view, allowing the user to change the specifics of that event, or simply to view the details associated with that item. The current day in Day view can display four events per hour.

This brings us to a limitation of the calendar. In Week and Day views, only four items can be displayed at once per hour. Practically, this dictates that each user of the calendar should not own more than two events for each half-hour. If you are in Day view and have All Users selected in the User drop down list (shown below in the Button Bar), there may be events that are hidden. If so, select an individual user to see that person's events. If more than two events are scheduled in the same half hour for any user, those events will not be visible in Week view or Day view.

Note: The addition of events to the calendar is covered in its own section elsewhere in this manual.




Calendar Button bar - The calendar's button bar is identical in all three views, and is covered in its own section elsewhere in this manual.