Overview
More than just a record of events and appointments, the Schoolwires' calendar far exceeds any other calendar in its class. The flexibilty to publish different types of events like Mandatory (cumpulsory) Events, Registered (sign-up) Events and to group events by color-coded categories, makes it easy for end-user to readily identify calendar events. From an end-user's perspective, using the Schoolwires calendar is made even more convenient by the Customized Calendar Viewing feature.

Customized Calendar View
Utilzing this features permits end-users to customize their view of the calendar by filtering in specific categories of events from any Site, Subsite, or Section calendar, to a single calendar. This is particulary helpful to parents who may have several children attending different schools within the School district. Instead of navigating from calendar to calendar or printing out multiple calendars, the customization feature permits the amalgamation of these calendars while selectively including only specific categories of events.

Customizing Your Calendar View
Let's assume a parent-user has children attending two different schools in the district. In addition to the calendars at these schools that they are interested in, the parent is also interested in the meeting schedule of the Board of Education. To subscribe to these calendars, all the parent has to do is:

~ Click on Customize Calendar View in the top left-hand corner of any calendar. Calendar & Category options display.

~ To add the specific calendars noted above:
  * Click the pencil icon next to Calendars. The 'add/remove' button displays
  * Click 'add/remove'. The Site tab in the Choose Calendars window displays.
  * Click Other Areas. The Other Areas window displays.
  * From the drop-down menu, select the preferred Site, Sub-site and/or Channel.
  * Click in the corresponding check box of the preferred calendar(s) in the Calendars listing.

~ Click I'm Done. The customized view of the Calendars with ALL categories of events displays.

Having now chosen the calendars, you are now ready to filter in only those categories of events in which you are interested.

~ To filter in specific categories of events:
  * Click on the pencil icon next to Categories. The 'add/remove' button display.
  * Click 'add/remove'. The Select Categories window displays.
  * Click in the check-box corresponding to the Event Categories to be included in the custom view.

~ Click I'm Done. The customized view of the Calendar with the selected categories of events displays.