Appearance

This screen contains options for configuring the appearance of your Connect Daily calendar system.

Month View Calendar Format

Connect Daily supports two different month view formats.

Bannerized View

In this view, if an event spans multiple days it's drawn as a single event box that overlays the days that it occurs on.

Other Differences:

This view truncates long event descriptions. This makes the display more compact, and allows the banner view. A mouse-over is provided to display the full event name and start/stop time for the event.
When you click on an event to view the details, the information is displayed in a dialog that appears in-line on the page, not as a new window.
If an event spans onto a new day, it will only be shown on the second day if the the end time is after the day view planner start time. In other words, a concert that ends at 2:00 AM won't span onto the next day.
When show event stop time is enabled, this view only shows the start/stop time combination when the start time or duration changes.
The week view link is not displayed.

Non-Bannerized, Wrapping

In this view, if an event spans multiple days it's drawn as a new event on each day that it occurs.

Other Differences:

Long event descriptions wrap downwards.
When show event stop time is enabled, this view prints the start/stop time for each event.
When you click on an event for details, the information is displayed in a pop-up window.
If an event spans onto another day, it's drawn on the second day, regardless of what time it ends. So, if you have an event that starts at 8:00 PM and ends at 2:00 AM, it will be shown on each day.
This view has a problem in the sort order of events if a time zone change causes the event's start date to change.

Day View Type

Using this option you can select the type of calendar that is displayed for the day view. The options are Single Day Planner View and Single Day List View. The Single Day Planner View is a grid with the hours of the day going downwards. Events are displayed as blocks on that planner grid. The list view is a list of events for a single day.

Enable Select View Dropdown

Enabling this option will display a dropdown list in the calendar controls section. Using the list, the person viewing the calendar can select between day view, month view, week view, list view, etc.

Show Only Approved Events

By default, events that are not approved will show on the calendar. Setting this option to Yes will show only events that have been approved.

Populate all cells in grid for month calendar.

If this option is set to yes, then the leading and trailing cells in the month view calendar will be populated. For example, if the 1st day of the month is Monday, setting this option to yes will display the events on the last day of the previous month. Similarly, trailing cells that are part of the next month will be populated. If this option is set to no, then days not part of the current month will not be populated in the grid.

Enable Rich Text editor for event description.

Setting this option to yes will enable the rich text editor for the event description. This will allow you to apply basic formatting, bold, insert images, etc into the event long description.

Connect Daily allows you to use a Rich Text editor to create the long description for events. You can also use the Rich Text Editor for creating a custom header that is displayed when you are logged in. The rich text editor is the Dojo/Dijit Editor, available as part of the Dojo Toolkit available from http://www.dojotoolkit.org/.

Features

The editor allows you to format text, including bold, italic, underline, text color, text background color, etc. You can also insert links and images. Finally, you can control the text alignment and insert numbered and simple lists. As you move your mouse over the icons in the editor toolbar a tooltip will be displayed. These tooltips explain the function of the icon.

Compatibility

The editor works by creating a window, and telling the browser to put that window into design mode. To a very large degree, the behavior of the window is dependent on the browser. For example, we've seen problems copying and pasting when using Internet Explorer. This is not a defect in Connect Daily, or the Dojo editor, but a defect in Internet Explorer.

If you are copying/pasting text from Microsoft Word, be sure to use the Copy/Paste from Word function by clicking on the icon as shown below.

Speed

Some browsers are faster than others. On our test computer, it takes 4 seconds for the rich text editor to display using Internet Explorer 8. Using the same computer with Firefox 3.10, the page displays in 1.6 seconds. If you're having performance problems, you may want to consider switching browsers.

Exporting

The various export screens will export the data as you enter it. You should be aware that not all programs will handle importing HTML correctly.

Disabling the Rich Text Editor

The Rich Text Editor can be disabled by going to System | Configuration | Appearance. Set the option for Enable Rich Text editor for event description to No.

Default Page on Login

This option lets you set the first page that Users will see after logging in. The two choices are the calendar or the welcome page. The calendar page will use the User's individual preference to select which calendar view to display.

Style Sheet

This is the name of the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Connect Daily should use. The cascading style sheet controls the appearance of the calendars including the fonts and colors displayed. If you wish to customize it, copy the existing style sheet or go to the Change Colors option on the Welcome screen and modify it to suit your needs. If a custom header is used, remember that the style sheet callout is in the custom header file.

Mobile Style Sheet

This is the name of the style sheet used for mobile views of Connect Daily. If you want to customize the mobile style sheet, download mobile_src.css Rename, customize it, and set this name to the name of your new sheet.

Print Style Sheet

This style sheet controls the appearance of Connect Daily when you print calendars. By editing this sheet, you can adjust the point size of events when they print. Refer to Printing Issues for additional information.

Default Header File & Default Footer File

These values control the default header and footer file used when viewing a calendar. They will only be used when viewing calendars while not logged in.

Item styles are linked to event types.

If this option is set to Yes, then colorization of events is tied to the Event Type. You would specify the style for the Event Type on the Edit Event Type screen. If this option is set to No, then you can set the Item Style independently of the Event Type.

Automatically generate a legend for item style/event types.

If this option is set to Yes, then a Legend of Item Styles will be generated and appear below the calendar.

For mini-calendars, highlight days with events.

If you set this option to Yes, then the mini-month calendars displayed on the Day View, Week View, and Year View will have dates that contain events highlighted..

Site Help Path

This is the path to a directory that contains your Site-specific Help files. This should be an absolute path and you should ensure that the User of the calendar has at least READ permissions to the directory. For additional information on how this feature works, refer to Site Help.

Hide Saturday & Sunday

Turning this on will change the calendar from a normal 7 days per week view, to a 5 days per week view, showing only the weekdays.

Show approvals menu pad only for approvers?

If this option is set to Yes, the approve items and approve resources menu options will only be displayed to those people who are Approvers of resources or calendar events.

Null Search String Returns Results?

By default, if a User clicks on the search button without entering search strings no results are returned. Setting this option will cause results to be returned even if no search words were specified.

Calendar License

If you have purchased Connect Daily or would like an evaluation license key, you can request a key for Connect Daily. Click on the Request License Key button to begin.

The default demonstration version of Connect Daily runs for two hours and then must be restarted. An evaluation key will run for 30 days before reverting to requiring restart every two hours.

When you receive a License Key, click on the Import License Data button to import it.