Calendar

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Applies toBandArtist profileRequiresContributor or higher to create events; Band Silver or higher for band calendar subscription

Calendar shows gigs, rehearsals, band events and availability in a month grid. Select an event to open its details.

Open Calendar

  1. In the side menu, under Planning, select Calendar.

Available in a band and an artist profile. Every member can view the calendar and maintain their own availability. Contributor or higher can create planning items and manage band-wide availability. Maintaining another member’s availability requires their delegation when that member has an account.

What the page contains

The monthly band calendar with events and member availability.
AreaWhat it shows
Month gridOpens on the current month. Week numbers and day cells show events and availability. Select the month heading to choose another month in the same year.
Band calendarThe band’s gigs, rehearsals and events. Rehearsals show their yes-vote count. Multi-day band events appear across their date span.
AvailabilityMember colours identify availability bars. Available is filled; unavailable has a dashed outline. Whole-band slots use a separate lane. Bookings and combined summaries are read-only. Travel-margin spillover is not drawn in this grid.
Artist calendarCombines your events and required bookings from your bands. Your availability is labelled Me. There is no band roster grid, month export or subscription button on this view.
Phone viewDays show dots. Select a day to see its items below the grid. Swipe left or right to change month.

Actions

ActionWhereWhat it does
previous month / next monthMonth headerMoves one month back or forward, including across year boundaries.
Select a dayDesktop gridOpens the add menu with the date prefilled. Select a start day, then Shift-click a later day to prefill an availability range.
add eventPhone, below the calendarOpens the add menu for the selected day.
AvailabilityAdd menuAdds availability. In a band you choose a member or Whole band; in an artist profile it belongs to you.
Gig, Rehearsal, Band EventBand add menuCreates the chosen type of planning item. For rehearsal proposals, see Rehearsals.
Personal eventArtist add menuAdds your own event. The artist menu also offers Gig and Availability.
Select an availability barGrid or day listEdits or deletes an editable slot. Derived bookings cannot be edited as slots.
Export month to calendar (.ics)Band month headerOpens Export calendar below.
Subscribe to calendarBand month headerOpens the subscription dialog. Needs Band Silver or higher. Without it the button shows a diamond and opens the upgrade options.

Dialogs

Export calendar

Choose Gigs, Rehearsals and/or Band events. All three start selected. Export downloads an .ics file for the displayed month and closes the dialog. Only confirmed and announced gigs and planned rehearsals are included; options are excluded. Band events are included when selected. This is a snapshot; later changes do not update the downloaded file.

Subscribe to calendar

  1. Select Generate link if no feed exists.
  2. Use Copy link beside Calendar feed URL.
  3. Add the link as a subscribed calendar in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook.
ActionWhat it does
Regenerate linkCreates a new link and invalidates the old one. Replace it in any calendar that subscribed to it.
Disable feedStops the feed.
CloseCloses the dialog.

The link is personal; do not share it. Subscription updates require an internet connection and depend on the external calendar fetching the feed.

The subscription contains the band's gigs, rehearsals and band events, including options. It does not include availability slots. This differs from the month export, which excludes options.

Event details

Select an event bar or a day-list item to open its details next to the calendar on a wide screen, or in place of it on a phone. See Rehearsal details and Band event details. For privacy, delegation and travel-margin settings, see Availability.

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