Collections in Sidebar

Share Calendars with Others [Top]

You can tell the "Office Calendar" collection is a "subscribed" calendar [synchronized with a calendar on a server] by the small down-arrow icon to the right of the collection name.

The "Office Deliverables" collection was published to the OSAF sharing server as a "shared" collection, and therefore has a right-arrow icon to indicate that this collection has been published so that others can subscribe to it.

One of the features of Chandler is that items can be associated simultaneously with multiple collections. The screenshots below show both Week and Day views with multiple collections overlayed.

When a particular item in the Day or Week view is selected, the status bar at the bottom right of Chandler's Detail View panel displays the collection(s) with which that particular item is associated. In the Week view examples, the selected item, breakfast phone call to Hawaii, is in the "My Items " collection .

In the Day view examples , the selected item, complete expense reports, is associated both with the "My Items" and the "Office Deliverables" collections.

Chandler lets you have a filtered view of your collections. By checking/unchecking a collection in the Sidebar, you can see all your collections, a single collection, or any combination. You can also drag-and-drop an item from the Calendar View to a Collection in the Sidebar to add events from one collection to another.

To the left we see two identical screenshots of Chandler's Calendar View. The difference is that the upper example has 4 collections selected, and the lower has only 2, the Office Calendar and the Office Deliverables.

Manage Events in Multiple Time-zones [Top]

One of the advanced calendar features found in this early release of Chandler is a sophisticated handling of time-zones.

Recognizing that users may differ in their need to display events based in different time-zones, Chandler lets the user assign the event's local time-zone, or select a "floating" option. In the Calendar View, one selects the time-zone region for the Calendar View display, and all the events adjust automatically relative to the selection, except for the "floating" events.

Floating events always occur at the start time of the event, regardless of the local time-zone selected for the Calendar View display. For example, when traveling you always want to go jogging at 7am, regardless of where you are. In this case, you would select "floating" as the option for that event.

But if you are in San Francisco and need to call London at 4pm London-time, you can set a 4pm event with a London time-zone. When you are in San Francisco and your calendar view is set for US/Pacific time, the London call event will display appropriately at 8am in your day's calendar. Conversely, an 8:30am conference call from Hawaii will display as starting at 10:30am Pacific Time.

Watch a Flash Screencast Demo on Time-zone support in Chandler 0.6.

In the Sidebar, Chandler offers an expandable month(s) overview. The separator bar at the top of the Mini-Cal is used to raise and lower the Mini-Cal. The Mini-Cal is the navigation and selection tool used to choose the week displayed in the Calendar View. The tick-bars to the left of the day in the Mini-Cal are an indication of the number of events scheduled for that day.

The navigation arrows in the Mini-Cal step the Mini-Cal forward or backward a month at a time. Selecting a week in a displayed Mini-Cal month changes the Calendar View to that week. The "Today" button jumps the Mini-Cal and Calendar View back to the current date.

Using the calendar header, you can switch back and forth from Week view to Day view. Select a particular day, for example "Mon 19", in the header of the Calendar View pane to switch to Day view, or selecting "Week" to switch to the Week View.

Screenshots (click image for larger view)