Announcing the New Weekly Calendar

Schedapple has multiple ways to view and manage your schedule. While the daily calendar shows all of your staff at once and the appointments for one date, the new weekly calendar which shows one week of appointments for single staff.

The weekly calendar has many of the same great features as the daily calendar, including:

• Zoom to enlarge the calendar, allowing you to see details for short-duration appointments.
• Click and drag the bottom of the appointment on the calendar to extend or shorten an appointment duration.
• One-Click New Appointments. Click on the calendar at the time and date you want to create a new appointment. The weekly calendar let's you see at a glance one staff's available appointment times for every day of the week.

New features on the weekly calendar can speed your calendar tasks, including:

See all of your appointments across multiple locations
If your business has multiple locations, then you may spend Mondays and Wednesdays at office A and the other days of the week at office B. The weekly calendar can show all of your appointments for the week for both office locations.

The weekly calendar shows appointments and available times for every day of the week.

Drag-and-drop to reschedule appointments to a different day
Simple move an appointment to a different date or time on the weekly calendar and the appointment will be automatically updated.

Weekly Appointments List View and Schedule Printing
Click the list view tab at the top of the weekly calendar to see a detailed listing of your schedule for the week, grouping appointments by date and time.

The weekly calendar's List View groups appointments by date. Click the printer icon for a printer-ready page.

7 Shortcuts and Tips on the Calendar

The administrative calendar for business users has many features to make scheduling and managing appointments fast and easy.

Tip #1: Zoom
Click the magnifying glass over the calendar to zoom in the calendar, enlarging the size of appointments. This is useful for viewing appointments with short durations or when there are overlapping, concurrent appointments.

Enlarge the calendar view by clicking the magnifying glass. The regular display is shown on the left and zoomed view is on the right, allowing you to see details for these short appointments.

Tip #2: One-Click New Appointments
To quickly create a new appointment, single click on the calendar at the time and staff member you want and the new appointment screen will appear with the appointment start time and staff already selected.

Tip #3: Click to Edit Appointments
To edit an appointment, point your mouse at the middle of the appointment and click once. A window opens, allowing you to edit and send an email update to your client.

Tip #4: Drag-and-Drop to Reschedule Appointments
Point your mouse at grey band with the time at the top of an appointment on the calendar. The mouse pointer will change to a 4-way arrow. Click and drag the appointment; the start and end times will change as you move the appointment. You can even move the appointment to a different staff member. Release the mouse button to finish.

Rescheduling an appointment by dragging its top edge.

Tip #5: Extend or shorten an appointment duration
Point your mouse at black band along the bottom of an appointment on the calendar. The mouse pointer will change to an up/down arrow. Just click and drag the bottom edge of the appointment and you'll see the appointment end time changing; release the mouse button to finish.

Change an appointment's duration by dragging its bottom edge.

Tip #6: The Best Way to Print Your Schedule
Click on the List View tab over the calendar. You may filter by staff from the drop-down selection that appears. Click the print button and a new window opens with the your list of appointments formatted for printing.

Printing your daily schedule from the list view.

Tip #7: Add/Delete Irregular Work Hours
Click the Add Work Hours button below the small calendar on the left. A window opens, allowing you to set up irregular work hours for any date. You can even have multiple work hour periods on one day. If these work periods are contiguous times, then they're treated as one long period to allow clients to schedule appointments over the entire period. Thus, you may set your regular work hours to none and add work hours to specific dates as needed.

Add work hours on a date.