HUBkap™ Help

HUBcal

HUBkap's multi-view calendar and toolbar will help to make managing your schedule an easy process.

Calendar Toolbar
Located at the top of the HUBkap calendar is a toolbar containing helpful features to assist you while navigating through and filtering your scheduled events.

Month / Year Selector
To change the month and year view of the calendar, use the directional arrows located to the left and right of the month name to navigate forward and backward through time. Use the arrows farthest away from the month name to change the calendar year. Use the arrows closest to the month name to change the month.
View Options Toggle Buttons
Use the calendar view buttons to toggle between the four different calendar views.
Event Type Filters
To help organize your events, HUBkap allows you to choose between four different event types when creating an event, Personal, Business, Family, & Friends. If you would like to only see certain types of events, use the event filter checkboxes to turn the visibility of the different event types on and off.

The Multiple-View Calendar
The HUBkap calendar has 4 views to help you manage your time.

Agenda View
The HUBkap agenda view provides a comprehensive listing of all your upcoming events, as well as a summary of all new HUBnote messages. The agenda view is HUBkap's default calendar view.
Month View
The HUBkap month calendar view offers you a standard 42 block representation of the available days for the month you select to view.
Week View
The HUBkap Week view offers you a visual representation of the available time slots per day in a 7 day period. The week view also provides functionality to easily navigate back and forward through the days of the month while remaining in week view.
Day View
HUBkap's Day view provides an expanded view of the selected day's schedule. You can navigate back and forward through the days of the selected month while remaining in day view.

Events
HUBkap events make it easy to schedule and manage your time.

Creating an Event
- Click & Drag HUBlist Items Onto the Calendar
  The simplest way to create a new event in HUBkap is to drag a HUBlist Item, or combination of HUBlist Items, directly onto a calendar date or time.
  As soon as you drop an Item onto the calendar, a blank event detail window will appear allowing you to fill in further event details.
  
  To learn more about HUBlist Items, please refer to the HUBlists section of this help guide.
- Double Click the Calendar
  When you double click a blank area of the calendar, a blank new event detail window will open for you to fill in information and then save your new event.
Editing & Adding to an Event
HUBkap provides you with several options for editing and adding information to your scheduled events.
- Event Detail Fields
  To directly edit an event's information, double click on an event in the calendar to open it's detail window. Each event detail window provides you with the following sections to fill in information pertaining to to your event:
  - Subject
    Use the subject field to enter a name/title for your event.
  - Event Type Dropdown
    The event types dropdown is provided to help you better manage your schedule and color code and organize the events within the calendar. HUBkap offers four event types: Personal, Business, Family, and Friends, each represented by a different color. When viewing your calendar, you can then use the event type filters located in the calendar toolbar to help locate like events more easily.
  - Who
    You can drag HUBlist Contact Items directly into the Who section to add event attendees, or you can click the add new contact to manually enter the email address of a contact you would like to invite to your event.
  - What
    You can drag HUBlist Activity Items directly into the What section, or you can click the add new activity to manually enter an activity name that you would like to have associated with your event.
  - Where
    You can drag HUBlist Location Items directly into the Where section, or you can click the add new location to manually enter address information you wish to have associated with your event.
  - When
    Use the time selction drop down menus to select a start and end time for your event.
  - Notes
    Use the notes textarea to add comment and notes you wish to have associated with your event.
- Dragging Scheduling Objects into an Event
  To add information to an event using HUBlist Items, simply click and drag the HUBlist Items you would like to add directly onto the event in the calendar.
- Moving an Event Block to a New Date & Time
  HUBkap events have been developed to allow you to click & drag them into new dates and time slots. To adjust an event in this fashion, simply click and drag the event you wish to adjust to a new date in the month view, to a new day and/or time slot in the week view, or to a new time slot in the day view.
  Note: If your scheduled event includes contact attendees, they will automatically recieve a notification of your event changes when you drag an event to a new date or time slot.
- Expanding the Size of an Event to Adjust it's Duration
  When you are viewing your schedule in week or day view, you can expand and contract the size of an event block to adjust it's duration. To do so, position your cursor at the top most or bottom most portion of the event and click and drag the edge of the event up or down, depending in the direction you wish to adjust the event'e time. When you release the mouse button, the event time should then snap into place in the closest half hour increment.
- Removing Event Details
  To remove added details from an event, open the event's detail window by double clicking the event in the calendar, then click the small [x] button located to the far right of each listing in the event detail window.
Saving an Event
Once you have finished creating or editing an event you have two options to save your event:
- Save & Send Button
  Clicking the Save & Send button will save the event and send invitations or update messages to all of the contacts that have been associated with the event.
- Save Draft Button
  Clicking the Save Draft button will save the event, but will not send invitations or update messages to any of the contacts that have been associated with the event.
Deleting an Event
Events, like HUBlist Items, are HUBkap interactive elements that can be onto the Recycle Bin Icon to remove it from the HUBkap interface, you can also drag an event onto the recycle bin icon to remove it from the interface.