Changing Displayed Field in Calendar View and/or Display Value of Field

I’d like to second this request, please!

For my purpose, I’m creating a calendar of home cleans for a housekeeping department. So Employee Joe may clean Red House and Blue House on one day, and Yellow House the next, while Employee Jane may clean the same homes (Red House and Blue House) next week.

Each “clean” has a unique primary key ID number (auto-assigned), but since that’s the primary field, it’s the only field I can show on my calendar. That means the calendar can’t be used at a glance without extensive filtering and views between homes or employees. Being able to create a view where the displayed field is the employee name, and another where it is the home name would make it very useful. This way we could see the entire schedule at a glance and be able to see where an employee is being sent in two directions on the same day, without having to click into each separate record to see the info we need.

Hi there, one alternative way to solve this problem would be to create an autonumber field that is not the primary field, then configure the primary field to be a formula which displays both the employee name and the home name, e.g. ={Employee Name}&" "&{Home Name}

Great idea - that worked. Thank you!

But this may make the primary field non-unique. Is this OK?

I also struggle with this. Being able to change the displayed field (to something other than the primary field) would be much more helpful. That way I could have multiple calendar views tied to different displayed fields. Right now I have to change my primary field via a formula each time I want to view the calendar in a different way and doing so seems to break some of my links (where a unique primary field is required).

Another vote for this feature to be implemented!

I agree … a method to choose the field to display for the calendar entry. In my case, I already have the date as the primary key, so I’m displaying a rather ridiculous calendar showing 7/18/2018 three times on the calendar the date 7/18/2018.

Just add the ability to display any field for the entry shown on the calendar.

I’d need this feature too! It’s quite important to be able to choose what field to display on the calendar

+1 vote for this additional development

These feature is a MUST for us!

This feature would be really great! +1 vote from me

When I set up calendar I had a different field as the main field and it was a pain to reconfigure the entire table becuase I didn’t know which one the calendar would show.

I would also say it would be really helpful to be able to change that easily with views that showed different fields. I have to check two things on the calendar view and it’s a bit cumbersome to click into each record each time I have to check the other thing that’s not the main field.

I’m in agreement with others here. I’d like to use the calendar view to schedule social media posts, where the various channels are the display value. As is, calendar view is a nice idea, but proving useless for me.

This would be great - I’m running classes for people in jails. The teachers of the classes want to know when trials and sentencing hearings are, but only for the people in their classes. If I could make a combo field as described above and make that the displayed view in the calendar and ical feed, that would mean the teachers don’t have to sort through dozens of names to find their own (and I wouldn’t have to screw up the other functionality of the base by turning that combined field into the primary key).

I agree with the discussion! 1+ vote from me too. I would like to see a summary section below the display field for each calendar event, so that more information can be captured by the calendar view.

This is a much needed feature!

On this one, really important when having to share a Base but different teams need different calendars.

Returning on this one to avoid opening new threads.
It would be also very helpful to be able to set what each iCal fields display in general:

1. Name of event (currently on the key column)
2. Description (currently only displays the direct item URL)
3. Location
4. Reccurence / Automatic scheduling (there’s specific notation for that one)

This would be extraordinarily helpful to our business.

I’m with Heracles,

I need to see more then just a URL in iCal. I was thinking maybe i need a formula but reading this… I know it’s not just me. Even if everything comes up as Text that would help. I’m even hoping that in the attachment field (in iCal) would show the name of the attachment. Doesn’t have to have the attachment just show me the name.

I also want to voice support for this feature!

In our case, we may have the same ‘event’ (class type) many times. Yet, we would not want all instances of the same ‘class’ to have the same Primary Key. Yet, in a calendar, you usually want the event name showing up in the calendar entries.

So, this is a very, very logical feature to be implemented in order to make the calendar into a more appropriate tool.

+1 for our business! We need to be able to 1) change the displayed title of the calendar event and 2) hide or re-order fields displayed when expanding events.

Yes! I’m shocked this isn’t an option! Please institute this! The formula won’t work for me.

Please add this critical feature!

Same here. Can’t believe this doesn’t already exist.

Agreed - this should be configurable in the same way that Kanban/Gallery cards are.