Deadlines sneak up on us because we’re always focused just a week ahead of time. Our tools don’t help since most calendars keep deadlines off-screen until it’s too late. We need a calendar that can easily zoom out from your daily work to scan your horizon of deadlines, goals, and…

All DayBack calendar views are now available on mobile. This means you can now use resource scheduling, week, and horizon views in your favorite mobile browser, in FileMaker Go, and in Salesforce Mobile (shown below). More info on setting this up in Salesforce can be found here: Salesforce mobile…

Color-Coding by a Second Field Here’s a beautiful example of adding additional color-coding options and icons to DayBack Calendar. This customer wanted to retain DayBack’s default color-coding for status but add another color–shown here as the header of the event–for color-coding by resource (salesperson, in this case). They also wanted…

New to DayBack for Salesforce, Calendar Analytics let you measure your schedule. Plot progress against your goals over time, balance your workload, and quickly see patterns that are invisible in traditional reports. We’ve been using analytics internally for a few months now and are impressed with how it’s helping…

The latest in-app update to DayBack introduces a text filter that works across every field in every one of your calendars. Type in an account name and see dates for that account across all your Salesforce objects. Here’s a quick video of this in action: Hope you find it…

Create record-specific calendars with components from DayBack for Salesforce Using DayBack Calendar in Salesforce Lightning, you can show a project’s schedule on a tab for that project. Or show all the activity for a new contact right on a tab in that contact’s record. This is also a great…

Overview Custom actions in DayBack Calendar let you add your own buttons to events in the calendar. These buttons are a great way to extend the calendar’s capabilities and a great way to use custom actions is to interact with third party applications: like GoToMeeting. Note: if you’re using…

Background Our customers frequently want to share their calendars with folks who aren’t users in their Salesforce organizations: it’s one of the most common problems we hear about. This was one of the primary reasons for adding sharing to DayBack Calendar, and creating shares in DayBack is a great way to…

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 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…

DayBack Calendar shows conflicts and double-bookings visually. But sometimes you’re editing events on other Salesforce pages and won’t necessarily know that you’re inadvertently creating a conflict. Wouldn’t it be great if Salesforce could warn you when any of your edits created a conflict? In this article we’ll describe two techniques for detecting…