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…

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. We schedule a lot…

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…

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…

Access more fields in Lightning Experience One of the features we really like in the Salesforce Lightning Experience are the Modal Boxes provided for creation and editing of records. They provide a consistent and attractive interface for the user, and although they’re not directly customizeable, they honor the record layout field…

A Scriptable Calendar DayBack was designed so that Salesforce Admins and Developers could extend it. And one of the more versatile extensions are custom actions. Actions can add buttons to your calendar events: buttons that modify your Salesforce records, trigger workflows, or trigger actions in 3rd party apps. Custom actions…

Action Plans is a free app by Salesforce Labs that lets you create task templates and apply them to new Leads and Opportunities (really any native object). This means you can embed your procedures in templates and then cascade these tasks onto your teams calendar each time they’re needed. In…

Here are the slides from Jason Young’s Dreamforce presentation, sharing how we brought DayBack Calendar to the Salesforce App Exchange. DayBack at Dreamforce 2016 from seedcode And here is the starter kit mentioned in the presentation. It’a s collection of examples and tips we wished we’d had when we…