Calendar view shows session search results pages that offer the option of List view and/or Calendar view along with the popular and powerful filtering functionality. As more meetings become hybrid, especially where sessions and presentations are not solely on-demand, attendees can use the calendar view to quickly see conflicts across several locations and better plan which sessions to watch in person and which to attend on-demand. Clicking on the session goes to the session page.
Many calendars can be created within a given meeting – as quickly as one sets up a search results page. For example, an administrator could set up a separate calendar for different channels (e.g., Channel 1). The layout of session results within the calendar are controlled by results cards, similar to how list results are controlled. The Calendar view option is available on any page with search results.
To set up the Calendar view, follow the steps below:
1. Hover over Settings -> Virtual / hybrid meeting applications -> cAttendee.
2. Then click “Navigation & Lobby Content” in the upper right-hand corner.
3. Click the tab (or cAttendee page) you would like to display the calendar view. In the example above, it is a session search page. Click Add New Content.
4. The “Type” dropdown is “Search.”
5. Choose the content you would like displayed in the calendar. The example above shows sessions.
6. Choose if you would like both the list view and calendar view as options for the user and the default view. The example at the top checks both list view and calendar view so the user can switch back and forth.
7. The Search filter will usually be set to “date” or “days.” This filter controls the title of the columns for the calendar view. The date format will vary by association (e.g., Monday, 11-10-23, 11/10/23) which is set up under Settings -> Virtual / hybrid meeting component -> Search & filters.
8. “Calendar zoom” sets the time intervals for the sessions. We would suggest 30 minutes, but 60 or 15 would also work. Clicking the magnifying glasses on the calendar view in cAttendee “zooms” in or out by this set time interval.
9. Once the meeting is set up or during setup, an administrator will want to clear the calendar cache by going to Settings -> Virtual / hybrid meeting component -> Search & filters. Click “Indexed search fields” shown below.
10. Select “Regenerate Session Cards.” This will force the cAttendee system to “refresh” or regenerate the calendar data an administrator has uploaded.
*Clicking the “Show empty rooms” icon shows the rooms that have no sessions in the room. This may be useful for administrators setting up the meeting.
