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Calendar Browser

The Calendar Browser provides a convenient view for time related items, such as appointments, projects, courses, public holidays etc.

Year, month and day views are available and it is easy to switch between these. Items viewed can include all time related types (within security constraints) or selected types.

A screen image of the Calendar Browser is shown below. Click on hotspots for help specific to a feature.

Navigation Bar

This is the standard EVA Netmodeler Navigation Bar which appears in nearly all browsers. See more detail for the navigation bar.

Selection Pane

Here you select the year, month, item types to display and the required view. You can also elect to see default items or hide them. The GO button causes the display to be updated.

You can select to see All Calendar types or a selected Calendar type. Any data type can be defined as a calendar type in EVA Netmodeler. Please refer to the discussion on Time/Calendar Related Items for a discussion of the concepts, and the Calendar Model section for information on how to define a type to be a Calendar type. Refer to the System Settings section for information on the system settings related to calendar processing.

Selecting Month for the View will result in display of a month at a time.

Selecting Year for the View will result in display of a year at a time.

Item Details Pane

This displays details of the currently selected item. You can select items in the Month or Day views.

Authorised users can also edit items here.

This pane is also used to display the day view when a specific day is selected in the Year or Month views.

Calendar Pane

This pane displays either a Month or Year representation of a calendar, depending on the option selected in the Selection Pane.

Year View

The Year View is shown in the image below. It shows a calendar representation of a full year, one row per month and one cell per day. Each column represents a day of the week.

Clicking the month link in the left hand column of the calendar table will give you a Month view for the year shown.

Clicking the date link for a specific day will display a Day View in the right hand pane.

Clicking the link for an item name will display its details in the Item Details Pane at the right. If you have appropriate rights, you can also edit the selected items here.

Clicking the button next to the day number will enable you to create a new calendar item in the Item Details Pane.

Month View

The Month View is shown in the screen image above. Clicking the link for an item name will display its details in the Item Detail Pane at the right. If you have appropriate rights, you can also edit or create items here. To create a new item, click the small icon to the right of the date in the appropriate cell.

Clicking the year link above the calendar table will give you a year view for the year shown.

Clicking the date link for a specific day will display a Day View in the right hand pane.

Clicking the link for an item name will display its details in the Item Details Pane at the right. If you have appropriate rights, you can also edit the selected items here.

Clicking the button next to the day number will enable you to create a new calendar item in the Item Details Pane.

Each month is shown on a row of the display. Clicking the month name link on the left of the row will display a Month View for the selected month. Clicking the date link of a cell will display a Day View for that day, as shown in the right hand pane above. (Items with no designated time will appear at the top; Items with designated times will appear at their designated time slots. )

Day View

The Day View appears in the right hand pane when a specific date is selected in the left pane of either the Year or Month Views. It displays time related items present on that day. See the example below.

Items with no designated time will appear at the top; Items with designated times will appear at their designated time slots.

Unknown Dates

EVA Netmodeler provides a feature for handling unknown dates. This is very useful, for example, when we are scheduling tasks within a project. We may not know yet on which date a task will commence or finish. Many systems will force you to enter a valid date, even if you do not know one - this leads to inaccurate data and confusion. In EVA Netmodeler, putting a blank or illegal value in a date property will result in it showing up as UNKNOWN. The calendar browser supports finding items with UNKNOWN dates (start or end). These views are available as selections in the "View" dropdown.

Relevant System Settings

Various system settings affect the appearance and behaviour of the Calendar Browser, For detailed information on these see Settings.