The latest in-app update to DayBack Calendar lets you include more fields inside the calendar. This is great for cases when you have required fields or field validation that previously couldn’t be addressed by the default calendar fields. Having access to more of your fields means you can make more edits inside the calendar where things like option-drag make creating and duplicating events very fast. These additional fields also show...

Easily Create Public URLs from your FileMaker Calendars You can now easily publish and share calendars and project timelines with folks outside your organization who may not have access to your FileMaker solution. The new “share” menu in DayBack will create a public url matching your view: shares can include events from multiple tables and respect your filters. What you see is exactly what gets shared. Changes made in DayBack are automatically...

Customers often want to track stats about the resources they’re scheduling in DayBack. They want to answer questions like… “How many hours do these assignments represent?” “What is the total cash value of the confirmed bookings this week?” [ba-box background=”#98e382″ border=”#4b9b55″ textcolor=”#F7F7F7″] This kind of reporting is now built into DayBack.  Check out the new Calendar Analytics introduced in July of 2018: measure values across your schedule. [/ba-box] Stats like these are easy...

The latest in-app update to DayBack Calendar introduces 21-day and 30-day resource scheduling views, so you can look a bit further forward when balancing your workload. Like “breakout by resource“, introduced last week, these options let you work at longer timescales so scheduling problems don’t sneak up on you. These new date ranges are available under the “days” menu when you click on the Resources tab in the upper right of the...

The latest in-app update to DayBack Calendar introduces “breakout” to Horizon View. This lets you work at longer time scales (up to nine twenty weeks at a time) while focussing on what’s scheduled for each resource. Resources in DayBack can be your people, rooms, or pieces of equipment, and you balance your workload by dragging events from one resource to another. Here’s a video of breakout in action: [ba-youtubeflex videoid=”gz2AbgqygcQ”] [ba-button link=”https://www.seedcode.com/filemaker-calendar/”...

The latest in-app updates to DayBack adds the ability to duplicate events by dragging them, improved date fidelity outside the US, and a red line indicating the current time. None of these updates require any changes to your FileMaker file: just click “check for updates“. Duplicating Events Easily duplicate events by dragging them. Just hold down the Option key (Mac) or Control key (Windows) before starting to drag...

DayBack Calendar does a great job visualizing conflicts in your schedule. But sometimes you may want to alert users when they’re creating a conflict that they may not see. We’ve created a simple script you can paste into your copy of DayBack Calendar to help notify users when they’re creating a conflict. Here’s the script in action: [ba-youtubeflex videoid=”xZCajTfEPBA”] Adding this to your file Note. These instructions are...