Part 2 of 3 on creating attendees, invitations, and accepting invitations in DayBack. In Salesforce, the standard Event object supports a single owner by default. In DayBack, it’s typical to map the owner of the standard Event as the resource so individuals in the organization have their own row or…

Part 1 of 3 on creating attendees, invitations, and accepting invitations in DayBack. Why Use Google to Send Notifications? Email notifications were built into Salesforce Classic, but they’re getting harder to do in Lightning. Having Google Calendar send notifications for your Salesforce events is a great alternative. Even FileMaker developers,…

DayBack is designed to be customized, and you can transform both the way it behaves and the way it looks. KC Embrey’s latest customization adds a new button to automate resource filters. You might need this if you have many resources (people, equipment, or rooms) and want to see…

DayBack and Calendly DayBack can push events from other calendars to Google, so these events block out your availability in Calendly. DayBack and Calendly both use Google calendars as data sources, which allows DayBack users to maintain their Calendly availability directly in DayBack. Using some Custom Event Actions, DayBack users can…

Snap to a favorite view when DayBack first opens Bookmarks let you save the clearest views of your schedule. Now you can open the calendar directly to one of your bookmarks. To set up a default bookmark, create a custom action using the On Sources Fetched trigger. Leave the…

DayBack now lets you work with your schedule in a different timezone. The calendar has always respected timezones in those calendars that support it (Salesforce, Google Calendar, and Office 365). But this enhanced timezone support is great if you’re scheduling for folks in other cities: nobody wants to do…

Cascading Events in DayBack When working with projects, many times you may have events with dependencies. If one event’s scheduled time changes, you probably want any dependent events in the future to adjust accordingly. DayBack’s custom event actions allow you to have that kind of automated control over your…

Overview Having switched from GoToMeeting to Zoom, we’re having a lot more meetings with customers since Zoom makes it so easy for new users to join the meeting. That means we have a lot more meetings to schedule and we needed a way to see our existing meetings on the…

You can add buttons and scripts to your calendar events with DayBack’s custom actions. These let you modify how the calendar works so folks can take action right from within the calendar. Now you can add these actions to shared calendars as well. This means you can do things…

Field Validation in DayBack Calendar If you have required fields in your backend–in Salesforce or FileMaker–DayBack will respect that and surface your error messages to users who leave those fields blank in the calendar. But sometimes those validation messages are a little harsh. Now you can write validation messages…