Company Calendar for Jira v 3.2.x: Overview

Owned by Mariia Korolishyna
Jul 10, 2019
2 min read

Main screen 

Company Calendar screen looks next:

Most of the area is occupied by a calendar that shows events from configured sources.

Control elements

The screen-shot has labels for controls.

#1 Calendar switchers
Every calendar that current user has access to appears here as a button. Users can switch between the calendars, by clicking the appropriate buttons. Users can also turn on a multiple calendar view, by checking two or more calendars

#2 Refresh, Add, Edit, Delete and Setting buttons

  • The first one is "Refresh" button that purges the cache. Click it when you need to load the events that were added outside of Company Calendar for Jira during the session with the app.
  • New calendars can be created by clicking "Add" button that is displayed for the users who have such permissions.
  • "Edit" button opens a sub-menu that leads a user either to the current calendar configuration or to a planning mode.
  • "Delete" button can be used to delete a calendar by a user who has such permissions
  • "Settings" button opens a sub-menu that leads a user either to the calendar settings or to the User quided tour. Calendar settings are stored on a per user basis.

#3 Hours calculation switcher and total hours

  • "Event Hours / User hours" switcher defines how event source totals are calculated when "Source Type" tab is active. In "Event Hours" mode, sum is calculated based on the events duration. In "User hours" mode, events with multiple assignees are summed for each user.
  • The duration of all displayed events is shown in "Total" area.

#4 "Select All /Deselect All" switcher

A user can select or deselect all source types or users just by one click

#5 Source Type and Users tabs

Switching between "Source Type" and "Users" tabs allows a user to see totals per source type(s) or per user(s).

"Source Type" tab lists all event sources associated with the current calendar. The event sources are defined in "Calendar Configuration" dialog, Events tab. Sources can be hidden or shown by clicking on it.

"Users" tab holds all users that are assigned to non-hidden event sources. You can hide/show events per-user by clicking on a user name. Hours that belong to events without assignees are shown as "Unassigned" user.

#6 Date navigation
By clicking  "<" and ">" buttons, a user can navigate back and forward in time. "today" button quickly returns a user to the current date.

#7 View controls
"quarter, month, week, day" buttons switch period to be displayed in a calendar.  buttons switch between "Time View" and "List View" when the calendar is in a weekly or daily mode.

#8 Sidebar toggle
Left panel can be hidden to gain more space for a calendar display.

Information dialog

Clicking on any event activates information dialog: