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I am perplexed by the labeling in Airtable Calendars.  In the attached screen grab, I have two projects in a single calendar, separated by color.  Great. However, it does not show the label of the fields I have associated with dates, even though it seems like there is ample room.

 

So great, let me enable the labels I want.  Except it doesn’t show the labels, it shows the date, but instead of just including the date on the specific entry, it puts it on ALL entries.  Very perplexing.  Why would I want to show the date of one entry on a completely different entry that falls on a different date? This makes no sense and can not imagine a case where this would be useful. 

 

Why won’t just show me the label that is already there on a specific date? Is there away to show the whole label on a given entry? In both the Interface and Calendar view I see this and can see know way to show the entire label.

Without seeing your base structure I can’t tell you precisely why it’s defaulting to these labels, but in interfaces there’s an option to change the label field, so just turn on your project name field and move it to the top of the labelling options list. 

 

Thanks for the reply.  My issue is when I turn on the “Label” it just adds the date I have for that Field and adds it to ALL the entries. When I turn on the label for “Final Delivery” it adds the date for that milestone to all entries, which I can not understand.

The “labels” I want are already on there - they are the field names. I just want to see all of it.

 

Part of my issue is the nomenclature Airtable uses.  “Labels” seems to mean the name of the field that data is entered.  But when I enable that label, it doesn’t add that field name, it adds the date. Which to me, is not a label, it’s data that I have entered.  This feels so off to me I have to be missing something...

Yeah the ‘Label’ here refers to the data you’ve keyed in to the fields you’re selecting:

If you want it to just display a default value, try creating a text field with a default value in it and using that as the label, that way any new records you create will have that field pre-populated.  You’ll need to populate your existing records manually though

 

Thanks for the reply.  Seems crazy to me that you have to go through all of that just to show what it is you are actually putting on the calendar. The value is already there!  It shows the first few letters of it but not the rest! 

 

Why do people use a calendar other than to show a specific thing happening on a specific date? Why would I want to display a date on something that happens on completely different date?  Why would I want to show a date at all, it’s on the calendar!  Super frustrating.

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