Calendar enhancements 📆

[Jordan_Scott1]

Hi all -

I hope your week is off to a great start.

I’m excited to share two new calendar enhancements that apply to both the view and the new interface element.

Cover images: similar to the gallery and kanban views, calendar will now support specifying an attachment field and rendering the first image in entries.

Customizable labels: similar to timeline and kanban views, calendar will also now support full customization of the fields displayed in entries, as well as their formatting

Additional resources:

• Support article: Guide to calendar view

Let us know if you have any questions or feedback!

This will be fully rolled out today. If you don’t see the changes, please clear your cache.

[jakemmarsh]

Hi there,

You’re likely seeing the URL alongside your image because the attachment field is still toggled on under “Customize labels”. If you toggle the field label off, it will stop showing as text and the image will remain.

As for what shows in the expanded view, we’ll definitely think more about this but in the meantime you can click “Expand record” to get to the full view with all fields.

[Karlstens]

Unfortunately the useful Sidebar images are lost as well as the text when the images are toggled off.

I’m hoping for the ability to see all pictures everywhere in Calendar view (Cards, Dates and Sidebar) - but have the image URL text invisible.

Further details below;

[ScottWorld]

I agree with @Karlstens’ valuable feedback above.

Overall, these calendar changes are a wonderful & significant improvement, although there is still some room for improvement:

1. I would really love to see text wrapping of event titles onto multiple lines, so that we can see the full title of an event at-a-glance.

2. When viewing the list of records with dates in the right margin of the calendar view, it would be really nice if we could click on a record’s date and be taken to that particular date on the calendar. Currently, we have to manually scroll through the calendar to go to a specific date.

3. On that note, it would be nice to be able to jump to any date that we want on the calendar without scrolling.

4. Most countries’ calendar weeks start on Monday instead of Sunday. It would be nice to have this option. In fact, 80% of the countries around the world start their weeks on Monday or Tuesday instead of Sunday. The USA is one of the few countries that starts their weeks on Sundays.

5. It would be great if this bug was fixed:

Similar calendar shares show inconsistent default dates Collaboration

It seems like you’ve stumbled upon a major Airtable calendar bug that I was able to reproduce on my end. The filter is mistakenly controlling where the calendar opens up to. In my tests: If there is no filter, the calendar will default to the earliest date on the calendar. If the filter shows events up to about 3 months in the future, the calendar will default to today. If the filter shows events up to about 4 or 5 months in the future, the calendar will default to the latest event in the fu…

6. As mentioned above by others, it is not necessary to display the word (empty) if a field is left blank.

7. URLs should not display for attachments if those URLs won’t work in November. Although maybe these URLs will continue to work for collaborators, in which case this is fine.

8. As mentioned above in other posts, improvements can be made to the first “expanded view” that you get taken to when clicking on an event.

But overall, these are relatively minor issues, and the new changes to the calendar view are absolutely fantastic! :grinning: :raised_hands:

We’re almost at a 100% perfect calendar view now, and I am super grateful for that! :cowboy_hat_face: :pray:

[Databaser]

Great update!

ScottWorld:

I would really love to see text wrapping of event titles onto multiple lines, so that we can see the full title of an event at-a-glance.

Yes. I was expecting the “label orientation” function like the Timeline view has.

ScottWorld:

Most countries’ calendar weeks start on Monday instead of Sunday. It would be nice to have this option. In fact, 80% of the countries around the world start their weeks on Monday or Tuesday instead of Sunday. The USA is one of the few countries that starts their weeks on Sundays.

YES! So many data entry mistakes happen because of this.

[ScottWorld]

Databaser:

YES! So many data entry mistakes happen because of this.

The dropdown calendar for date & time fields also ignores other countries as well. The dropdown calendar always displays a USA calendar. :man_shrugging:t2:

[Joe_Hewes]

After testing this end I realise now hiding fields in the card also hides the labels on the calendar view, which is definitely not ideal for us. The two need to work independently please, or you end up with nothing on the card view but hidden fields.

[ScottWorld]

Oh wow, I didn’t realize this. If it acts like this, this is a big dealbreaker.

Dan from Openside also had a great suggestion that is semi-unrelated to this huge dealbreaker:

Since the event titles don’t wrap text to show the full name of an event, we should at least get a tooltip that appears when we hover over the event that shows us the full titles.

[Justin_Barrett]

ScottWorld:

Since the event titles don’t wrap text to show the full name of an event, we should at least get a tooltip that appears when we hover over the event that shows us the full titles.

Agreed on this. With a full calendar this could be incredibly helpful.

[Kamille_Parks]

If the span.labelWithSeparator elements remove the white-space: nowrap; property, and make some adjustments to the when/where .truncate-block-#-lines classes get applied, then the Calendar views can achieve wrapping labels while keeping the event duration in view

[Peter_Borg]

Hate to be a party pooper but Joe has described exactly the problem that a client of mine has identified. And it’s a big problem. They rely on sharing calendars to external users who can pop up a calendar and see only the field my client wants them to see. But they also rely on having a succinct label for that same item.

Like Joe says, control for these 2 features needs to be independent.