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…

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…

Calendar actions in DayBack let you add your own buttons to calendar events. Most folks use these to run flows, navigate to other pages, or connect with other apps–like creating a Zoom meeting for your event. But actions are also a great place to try out new code and…

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…

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…

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…